With energy prices on the rise, homeowners are looking for ways to improve heating conditions for the upcoming winter. One way is to enhance the homes’ insulation, but for many people, the attic is an …

While most people are aware of the risk of breaking a hip when an elderly person falls, fewer people are aware that almost 50% of the deaths caused by falls in the elderly are the …

Kids are used to hearing they shouldn’t play in traffic but now a study of children, traffic, and allergies points to problems with allergies and other associated ailments when children live near major roadways and …

In 2006, the state of Massachusetts mandated health insurance coverage for all adults. Individual uninsured taxpayers would be fined for failure to comply. After one year of implementation, the law is considered a success …

Prostaglandins are infinitesimal, ephemeral lipid signalers in every cell in the body, and regulating every activity that takes place within a cell. As regulators of cellular activity, prostaglandins influence how cells are formed and what …

Researchers at Columbia University have released a statement sure to please cat-loving parents everywhere. Seems children up to age five who live in a household containing a cat are less likely to develop asthma …

A recent study of 27 European countries points to the children of the United Kingdom (UK) leading the way in the obesity crisis that is sweeping the industrialized world in recent years. Almost one-third …

Batten disease is a tragically devastating disease so rare that only about 200 children around the world have it at any one time. One reason for its rareness is that it most often kills …

Although most commonly known as an effective antidepressant medication, fluoxetine, marketed under the brand name Prozac, was shown to be effective in slowing the progression of the relapsing remitting type of multiple sclerosis (MS), with …

By Julian Lieb, M.D.
Stimulating immune function would transform the prevention, treatment, research and economics of infectious disorders, among them the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, resistant tuberculosis, a possible avian influenza …