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Stress and depression are known to increase risk of heart attack, especially among women. They’ve also been linked to worse recovery. But does stress and depression contribute more to women with heart attacks with open arteries or blocked arteries? That’s what a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology aimed to find out.

In a new study, Yale researchers offer a look into how infants’ brains work and change over time, and how these processes can be disrupted by preterm birth. The findings, the researchers say, could point to treatments that correct developmental trajectories that go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Life expectancy has increased substantially for people in the United States with Down syndrome, from a median age of 4 years old in the 1950s to 57 years old in 2019. This longer life span increases the need for adequate health care into adulthood for this population, the majority of whom are at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias and other chronic health conditions as they age.

Skin organoids offer a powerful platform for drug discovery in the ongoing fight against the virus formerly known as monkeypox. A new model system for studying mpox virus infections in the laboratory is providing valuable insights into the virus’s mechanisms of attack on skin cells, offering a potential catalyst in the quest to discover innovative drugs to combat this emerging pathogen.

Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she scraped her right shin climbing onto her friend’s pontoon for a day of boating in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 13.

Following a rocky roll-out, more than 7 million Americans have now gotten the newly updated COVID vaccines.

You’ve finished a workout, so you’re hot and drenched with perspiration—but soon you begin to feel cool again. Later, it’s a sweltering summer evening and you’re finding it hard to sleep, so you kick off the covers.

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says the government will expedite the process of legalizing the mining of sugilite in Luapula province.

While the hot, dry summer may have offered a break to people with some environmental allergies, that reprieve could be over.

Tuberculosis is often seen as a threat of the past. But it remains a significant concern worldwide, with international travel spreading the disease.