The trillions of microbes living in the human gut are increasingly recognized as important partners in human health.

New research indicates that the long-term neurological impact of childhood trauma is not permanently etched onto the brain.

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

A large-scale genetic analysis of East Asian individuals led by Fuu-Jen Tsai of the China Medical University Hospital, finds ...

Automatic scribes run by artificial intelligence now routinely "listen in" on your visit to the doctor. These software ...

When disasters strike, nursing homes face uniquely high stakes. Residents often depend on power, medications, mobility ...

When an addiction and a mental health disorder coexist—a condition known as dual disorder—scientific evidence indicates that ...

Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system's ability to ...

The community-based opioid treatment program Honor's HEROES at UTHealth Houston may significantly improve treatment retention and quality of life for people with opioid-use disorder, even among those ...

Fatty liver disease is when too much fat builds up in the liver. The liver is the body's filter. It helps clean the blood, store energy and process nutrients. If too much fat stays in the liver, it ...

Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different genetic paths. A new study shows that these differences can sometimes be traced ...

Nearly one in five pediatric hospital deaths in the United States involve sepsis, according to a new national study published in JAMA. The study also found that sepsis occurs in about one in every 75 ...