Longer-than-expected telomeres are associated with an increased cancer risk.

The more time a young adult uses social media, the more likely they are to feel socially isolated

In a First, Pitt-UPMC Team Help Paralyzed Man Feel Again Through a Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm

Most gun crimes not committed by legal gun owner

Not only is breast cancer more than one disease, but a single breast cancer tumor can vary within itself, a finding that researchers discovered has the potential to lead to very different patient treatment plans depending on the tumor sample and diagnostic testing used.

Social Media Use Associated With Depression Among U.S. Young Adults

State laws mandating influenza immunization for people who work in health care increase their vaccination rates, according to new research

A next-generation sequencing test is successfully predicting which thyroid nodules are cancerous and require surgical removal, reducing the need for multiple invasive diagnostic procedures…

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient’s undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site…

New finding by U Pitt researchers suggests cystic fibrosis should be considered two diseases, one that affects multiple organs including lungs, and one that doesn’t affect the lungs at all