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Dr. Janine Clayton, director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, discusses the gender gap in medical research and how it’s affecting women’s health outcomes.

The UN’s high-level meeting on TB is aspirational but needs critical funding.

Researchers developed a machine learning algorithm to identify a subset of 68 genes that were reflective of acute inflammatory processes. In the end, the researcher’s algorithm demonstrated 92% accuracy in its ability to discriminate between a sleep-de…

Researchers have now developed the first approach for altering the mechanical motion of nanomotors by using visible light as the stimulus. The implications of this discovery are far reaching and may lead to a new class of nanorobotic and nanoelectromec…

London-based blockchain startup Genomes.io is on a mission to protect and productize DNA. By sequencing and securely storing full genome sequences using blockchain technology, industries such as pharma and insurance will be able to query an individual’…

While current nutritional guidelines have focused on consuming low-fat dairy products and minimizing dairy intake altogether, a recent large, multinational study has shown that whole-fat milk consumption reduces risk of cardiovascular disease.

Prevalence of Alzheimer’s and related dementias in African Americans is 64% higher than for Caucasians, a new study says. And Hispanics are one and half times as likely to have ADRD than non-Hispanic whites.

Breaches of private patient data are on the rise, according to an analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services database published in JAMA.