Health Sciences and Technology News

Mummies that have recently been unearthed in South Korea may provide clues on how to combat hepatitis B.

Got high cholesterol? You might want to stay away from air pollution.

Alcohol-impaired driving causes roughly 17,000 deaths per year, according to a 2006 study. While 46 states will suspend the driver's licenses of those caught driving while impaired (DWI), nine states do not have immediate license-revocation laws.

Surprising findings by Queen’s researchers have shed new light on how the “sunshine vitamin” D – increasingly used to treat and prevent cancer and other diseases – is broken down by our bodies.

Sleuthing through soil has led University of British Columbia researchers to a key discovery about the world’s most lethal infection -- tuberculosis (TB).

A quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels, according to survey results released by the Health Department, and the elevations are closely tied to fish consumption.

University of Delaware scientists have invented a novel biomaterial with surprising antibacterial properties that can be injected as a low-viscosity gel into a wound where it rigidifies nearly on contact

A decade ago, scientists announced the ability to introduce foreign genes into the mosquito genome. A year ago, scientists announced the successful use of an artificial gene that prevented a virus from replicating within mosquitoes.

Researchers have isolated bisdemethoxycurcumin, the active ingredient of curcuminoids -- a natural substance found in turmeric root -- that may help boost the immune system in clearing amyloid beta, a peptide that forms the plaques found in Alzheimer's di

On the eve of the 62nd anniversary of the world's first atomic explosion, the Trinity atomic bomb test, a CDC-led study team has reported new insights on the radiation released at the time of the test.