Mosquito, tick or flea? How to avoid, identify and treat insect bites this summer

By weaving oral health into primary care education, research, and community practice, recent studies demonstrate that prevention-driven, patient-centered care is imperative for a healthy population.

If you've got a dodgy tummy, diarrhea and have been vomiting, it's easy to blame a "tummy bug" or "off food."

Most treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD) only slow disease progression. Early intervention for the neurological disease that worsens over time is therefore critical to optimize care, but that requires early diagnosis. Current tests, like clinical rating scales and neural imaging, can be subjective and costly. Now, researchers in Analytical Chemistry report the initial development of a system that inexpensively screens for PD from the odors in a person's earwax.

One of the nation's largest food companies is planning a big change to its ingredients list.

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics. Missteps risk either prolonging mechanical support with no prospect of recovery or declaring death in error—a prospect that evokes the terrors of many Edgar Allan Poe writings.

There are over 15 million people living with spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide. Experimental treatments using electrical stimulation through the skin may help some patients regain movement, but researchers still have a lot to learn.

Up to 1 in 3 adults and young people with epilepsy also have mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. A new set of recommendations aims to help neurologists offer a more integrated approach to care.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego and UC San Francisco have found that Proposition 56, a major tobacco tax increase that was overwhelmingly approved by California voters in 2016, was associated with a significant increase in smoking cessation over the next three years. The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, also reported significant differences in state tobacco spending and the proportion of people smoking daily.

The liver is one of the hardest working organs in the human body. It detoxifies harmful substances, helps with digestion, stores nutrients, and regulates metabolism.

Although Josefina Muralles' husband works full-time, their household income is just above the federal poverty line—too high to qualify for Florida's Medicaid program, but low enough to make Muralles and her husband eligible for subsidized health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, also known as Obamacare.

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes for the first time this year in the Bay State, according to the Department of Public Health.

Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds the cupboard was left unlocked. They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a Salmonella outbreak alert linked to pistachio cream.

Infertility appears linked to women's risk of heart problems, an evidence review suggests.

The brains of humans and other primates are known to execute various sophisticated functions, one of which is the representation of the space immediately surrounding the body. This area, also sometimes referred to as "peripersonal space," is where most interactions between people and their surrounding environment typically take place.

Many experts believe that social isolation is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. But a new study, led by UC San Francisco and Boston University, examined the social habits and genetic data of half a million Britons whose average age was 56, and found that the disease may make them more sociable rather than less—at least in the early stages.

Proteoglycans are large molecules that are important for tissues all over the body. For example, they play key roles in the development of cartilage and blood vessels, and they can also protect against inflammation and infection. But their role in cancer is less clear: while some proteoglycans protect against cancer, others can promote tumor growth.

Living in a U.S. coastal county bordered by ocean waters with very high concentrations of microplastics may increase the risk of heart and metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and stroke.