Research explores how excessive sugar consumption can drive systemic inflammation, disrupt the gut and oral microbiomes, and ...

Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to build connections within itself, adapting to the surrounding environment.

A human cell culture model of the lung's most important immune cells, alveolar macrophages, helped make a key finding that is prompting researchers to rethink the role of another immune protein in ...

A new systematic review led by researchers in Hamilton, Canada has shown that specialized in-bed cycling therapy, when used in the intensive care unit with critically ill patients, leads to better ...

Across the United States, more than 90% of stroke patients have some form of disability as a result and more than 11% experience a second stroke within a year.

Diabetic kidney disease – a complication of diabetes – is considered the leading cause of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure worldwide.

In a recently published article in Nature Communications, a team of researchers from the University of Virginia -; including Phil Bourne, dean of the School of Data Science, Cam Mura, a senior ...

Bed availability is a "significant" factor in determining whether or not a patient is admitted to a critical care bed after surgery, questioning whether some are getting the care they need, a new ...

By nature of their living situation, people experiencing homelessness (PEH) are considered one of the most vulnerable populations to the health impacts of extreme weather.

As strains of pathogens resistant to frontline antibiotics become more common worldwide, clinicians are more often turning to combination treatments that degrade this resistance as a first treatment ...