From a barbecue explosion to a severe firework injury, a lot can go wrong when celebrating the Fourth of July.

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Researchers have long focused on the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) pathway as a way to harness the immune system's ...

Inappropriate polypharmacy—the excessive or unnecessary use of multiple medications—is a major driver of emergency hospital ...

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said ...

A new study from Mass General Brigham researchers offers a stark reminder of how pervasive cell phone use while driving is ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, that speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (SCOS) can be used for cuffless blood ...

Patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) whose tumors have specific mutations in the PPP2R1A gene were found to have ...

Alcohol consumption is widely known to affect decision-making, but a recent study led by researchers from The University of ...

UCLA researchers have successfully grown miniature lungs from stem cells—complete with their own functioning blood vessel ...