Health Sciences and Technology News

How is it that some people who apparently freeze to death, with no heart rate or respiration for extended periods, can be brought back to life with no long-term negative health consequences?

Scientists are reporting new evidence that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes and that caffeine may be the ingredient largely responsible for this effect

Doctors could one day diagnose food allergies with a simple blood test that would be faster and more reliable than current tests

The important work shows that it is possible to generate immunity to newly identified species of Ebola virus with a vaccine originally designed to protect against a different species

Although caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug worldwide, its potential beneficial effect for maintenance of proper brain functioning has only recently begun to be adequately appreciated

We are not alone -- even in our own bodies. The human gut is home to 100 trillion bacteria, which, for millions of years, have co-evolved along with our digestive and immune systems

An artificial pancreas system that closely mimics the body's blood sugar control mechanism was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of patients

Want kids who are smarter and thinner? Keep them away from the television set as toddlers

Researchers have discovered that mice -- and probably humans and other mammals as well -- produce their own morphine in their bodies

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that a compound in dark chocolate may protect the brain after a stroke by increasing cellular signals already known to shield nerve cells from damage