'Heart-on-a-chip' effectively uses human cardiac muscle cells derived from adult stem cells to model how a human heart reacts to cardiovascular medications.

Community ecologist spotlights how environmental management affects disease emergence.

Gene therapy technique leads to production of healthy blood cells — could be used for other genetic diseases.

Key step toward personalized medicine holds promise for treating many diseases.

Molecule interferes with the internal regulation of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct.

Obesity poses serious health risks for moms and their babies.

It's not just low wages. Study by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health points out another disturbing impact of income inequality: its effect on people’s health.

Additional strains of the parasite — and the disease it transmits — prove a greater risk even to those with healthy immune systems.

Cells are like night club bouncers, says UC San Diego's Amro Hamdoun: With every substance that a cell encounters, it has to decide which to eliminate and which to let in.

Feeling blue? Anxious? Fatigued? Roger Walsh offers ‘Eight Ways to Wellbeing.’

Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are up to two to three times more likely to develop the disease.

Protein may be to blame; study suggests combination therapies could overcome drug resistance.