An experimental gene therapy offers hope for rapid improvement in the night vision of adults who have a congenital form of childhood-onset blindness, researchers report. In this ongoing clinical trial at the Scheie Eye Institute in the...

Lifetime of stress tied to big rise in cancer risk. That’s due to what researchers called “allostatic load” — a measure of cumulative stress, or wear and tear on the body. Read more Study casts doubt on...

Teddi Mellencamp, a former star of TV’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” announced Tuesday that she has a repeat case of melanoma on part of her back where she previously had the skin cancer. Mellencamp, 41,...

A new ultrasound treatment for kidney stones might provide pain-free relief while the patient is awake, researchers say. Kidney stones are often excruciatingly painful. In most cases, patients are told to just ride it out, sometimes for...

The new bivalent COVID-19 booster is now approved for children as young as 5 years old, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. The bivalent booster shot includes one part that protects against the original strain...

Scientists have taught a brain cell culture living in a laboratory dish to play the vintage table-tennis video game Pong. It’s the first demonstration that a collection of lab-grown brain cells can be taught to perform goal-directed...

Human brain tissue has been successfully transplanted into the brains of rats using a cutting-edge experimental procedure, say researchers. They envision the achievement as a promising new frontier in medical research. Groups of living human nerve cells...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Too many times, the realization comes too late. “When people have a major medical event like a heart attack or stroke, they retrospectively go back and say, ‘Oh,...

When social interaction came to a halt during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, newborn babies missed out on vital communication milestones, researchers say. A new Irish study found about 25% of these new babies spent...

While working on a senior research project as part of her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University, Serah Sannoh decided to analyze peer-reviewed studies on diet and menstrual period pain, partly because of her own struggles with the...