Across species from pets to wildlife, chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and arthritis are increasingly common — and humans share much of the blame. Across the globe, animals from household pets ...

Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for ...

Understanding the exposome reveals how environmental factors influence health through epigenetics and oxidative stress, ...

Another common feature: Patients with a number of autoimmune diseases, especially women, often suffer heart attacks and ...

Seles’ first symptoms appeared suddenly around three years ago. She began having double vision and weakness in her arms and ...

Iain Cheeseman and colleagues reveal the underappreciated role of single genes producing multiple proteins in atypical ...

Over 60% of human infectious diseases come from animals. Learn what zoonotic diseases are, how they are transmitted, and why ...

Researchers found that neurons can use fat, not just sugar, to power the brain. When a protein called DDHD2 fails, this process breaks down and leads to serious brain problems. Scientists were able to ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...

But the new study, published Friday (Oct. 24) in the journal Current Biology, indicates these soldiers may have been weakened by fevers caused by B. recurrentis and then killed by paratyphoid (a ...

A biology teacher has become the first patient in the UK to receive a "gamechanger" therapy to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). The CAR T-cell treatment, which experts believe could "transform" lives by ...

Immunology is at a pivotal moment. The huge successes in public health brought about by vaccines are now facing erosion, as anti-vaccination sentiments spread around the world and the United States ...