Rising temperatures could increase the chances of experiencing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) by nearly 50 percent by the end of the century, placing a greater burden on society through loss of health, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences' twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV – a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against the sexually ...

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If you've got a dodgy tummy, diarrhoea and have been vomiting, it's easy to blame a 'tummy bug' or 'off food'.

Closer to the shoulder, axolotls have higher levels of retinoic acid, and lower levels of the enzyme that breaks it down.

Most of the time they are killed by asphyxiation, either in open air or ice water. While this is a cost-effective way to kill fish en-mass, an international team of biologists, led by Cynthia ...

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In additional experiments, the same bacterial fragment blocked the aggregation of IAPP (a protein involved in type 2 diabetes ...

Spotting cancer early can significantly improve the chances of recovery, and US researchers have shown that blood biomarkers ...

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...

Faecal transplants have been used to treat a wide array of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson's ...

If you've been on social media lately – perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn't but you ...