If you're trying to reduce your risk of chronic disease, focus on adding the best anti-inflammatory foods to your plate. In ...

Have you ever wondered if there is a way to heal bones without having to take bone from another part of the body? A new ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin ...

In a new study, researchers showed that resistant starch can help lower harmful fat levels in the liver. Resistant starch is ...

Our body's own defense system not only clears away bacteria and viruses, it can also fight cancer. However, not all tumor ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

There are trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, and we are starting to learn more about the exact mechanisms ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have uncovered a surprising new role for gut bacteria: producing bile acids that can ...

When the immune system does not function properly, individuals become more susceptible to infections caused by viruses, ...

For example, all antibiotics that target the cell wall – the thick protective ... There are different ways to kill bacteria we haven’t exploited yet, and there are still roads we can take to fight the ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...