You can forgive the new kitten for the furrows she dug into your arm, but keep an eye on those scratches. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control finds that 12,500 people are diagnosed with ca...

September is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and it is a great time to look at ways to make sure your skin is still cancer free as the summer slowly ends. Being able to examine one’s own skin i...

Both could serve as predictive treatment biomarkers or targets for therapy Two recently discovered genetic differences between brain cancer cells and normal tissue cells — an altered gene and a...

If you pay any attention to the latest fitness trends, you’ve probably noticed that things seem to be getting more and more extreme. The more “insane” a workout is, the better. Words such as killer, ...

In a remote area of north-central Tanzania, men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt for their next meal. Dinner could come in the form of a small bird, a tower...

An epidemiological analysis of data from 1,685 adult Americans finds that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, but not diet soda, is associated with increased risk of prediabetes and inc...

The Houston Methodist Research Institute’s department of nanomedicine is the recipient of this year’s AIDS Foundation Houston Shelby Hodge Vision Award. Alessandro Grattoni, Ph.D., nanomedicine depar...