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Pregnant mothers who lived in neighborhoods where public drinking water fluoride levels were near or above the current U.S. recommended levels tended to have children who scored lower on tests of fluid reasoning as fluoride levels increased, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health's Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.

Anyone who has had to share a room - or worse, a bed - with a loud snorer knows the effect unchecked snoring can have on sleep, sanity, and emotional stability.

You get a message that a test result is available in your online patient portal. Do you look at it right away, or do you wait to hear from your health care provider?

Research has already shown that the more time children spend playing with screens indoors instead of playing outdoors, the more likely they are to develop myopia.

New research has found that improvements to the severity of delusions in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder recovering from an acute psychotic episode were significantly associated with reductions in volatility priors—someone's expectations about the unpredictability of their environment.

The knee is a key weight-bearing and stabilizing joint in daily locomotion, supporting body weight, maintaining balance, and enabling flexible movement during level walking, ramp ascent and descent, and stair ascent and descent.

According to a peer-reviewed study published May 29, 2026 in Nutrition & Diabetes, adults with overweight or obesity (mean BMI: 33.6 kg/m²; mean age: 47.7 years) who reported continuing to eat pork while participating in a 6-month digital weight management program lost a clinically significant 5.3% of starting body weight and improved their overall diet quality scores by 4.3 points.

UVA Health researchers have discovered how a form of delirium that often strikes older patients after surgery may set the stage for dementia – and identified a drug that could reverse the underlying brain changes.

Liver disease often progresses silently until it has become a serious condition. Researchers at The University of Toledo may have found a way to identify one of its earliest warning signs before symptoms appear.

Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment, yet many tumors remain stubbornly resistant to its effects.

While cancer cells acquire malignant traits through epigenetic remodeling, it remains unclear how immune-derived inflammatory factors regulate the epigenetics of colorectal cancer cells.

Cancer patients often face more than the disease itself. Their treatment is frequently complicated by infections and other health conditions, meaning they may need to take several different medications at once.

This World Breast Cancer Research Day, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is highlighting the importance of clinical research in advancing better treatments and improving early detection to ultimately help prevent and cure breast cancer.

Nearly 15 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, many survivors are still living with the psychological effects of the disaster.

In a new paper appearing Aug. 18 in Nature Communications, Princeton University researchers show how music produces distinct patterns in the regions of the brain associated with imagination and meaning, similar to those prompted by spoken narratives.

Scientists have discovered that a key molecule released during exercise strengthens muscles, improves exercise performance and could be a therapeutic treatment for muscle damage caused by type 2 diabetes.

A five-week training intervention taught college students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events, a new study finds.

A Leicester GP clinic has become one of the first private healthcare providers in the UK to offer the Galleri test - the multi-cancer early detection blood test trailed by the NHS in the largest study of its kind in the world.

Major research has found that long COVID continues to affect a substantial proportion of healthcare workers, with serious consequences for their health, work and home lives, and NHS workforce overall.

Dentists could soon have access to highly realistic 3D advanced manufactured dental models that better prepare them for complex tooth removal procedures, thanks to a new a $800,000 collaborative research project between Australian medical training device company Fusetec, Adelaide University and the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC).