Americas

Some vegetable oils that claim to be healthy may actually increase the risk of heart disease, and Health Canada should...

A collaboration among researchers in Israel and the United States has resulted in the discovery of a new pathway that...

The stop and start of blood flow to the heart during and after a heart attack causes severe damage to...

A new method for creating stem cells for the human liver and pancreas, which could enable both cell types to...

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers played a key role in the largest international Alzheimer's disease genetics collaboration...

Researchers from Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine and CHU de Québec have shown that it is possible to treat venous...

AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Amplimmune,...

A new analysis concludes that large numbers of patients in advanced stages of kidney disease are inappropriately being prescribed statins...

Uncertainty persists regarding whether drugs that lower sugar reduce the risk of heart attack, with some concerns that diabetes drugs...