Microplastics are often viewed as pollutants in their own right, but their environmental impact may extend far beyond the plastic particles themselves.

A lab-grown micro bladder may explain why urinary tract infections (UTIs) return so frequently, according to a study led by researchers at UCL, the University of Oxford and the University…

Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for causing several infections that are hard to treat, owing to their high resistance to antibiotics.

Researchers at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have, together with international collaborators, discovered that a small molecule made exclusively by gut bacteria can actively drive disease in…

Medicaid has a reputation for paying doctors less than other health insurers. But exactly how much less has been difficult to establish, particularly for the vast majority of Medicaid patients…

Pop-up messages that warn of the harms of social media - such as mental health consequences - have potential to reduce young people's social media use, a new Stanford Medicine…

As proteins are made in a cell, they are folded into the 3-D structure that allows them to work, but sometimes this process can go wrong.

As the human brain takes shape before birth, a remarkable type of stem cell helps give it many of the features that make it distinctly human.

Flinders University researchers were part of an international team that conducted a scoping review that identified 2,441 records and found just 32 studies examined how cancer patients, survivors and carers…

As aging populations drive rising global healthcare demands, finding scalable ways to prevent cognitive decline has become a vital public health priority.