Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States and advanced colorectal polyps are a major risk factor. 

No single method will work in all locations where arsenic needs to be removed from groundwater, says a United Nations University (UNU) review of 31 technologies developed over the past 20 years.  

Team’s findings show the importance of more careful stewardship of antibiotic use and the need for better treatment of wastewater around the world.

Overheated mice do not defend against flu in lab study.

According a study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, eight weeks of intensive yoga practice significantly decreases the severity of physical and psychological symptoms in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a debilitating chronic auto-immune inflammatory disease. 

Researchers who detected the West Nile Virus (WNV) in Pakistan for the first time are calling for urgent, coordinated surveillance to assess the distribution in the country of the virus known to cause deadly neurological disease.

At least 15% of the world’s inland surface water areas are covered by protected areas, according to a new study from the JRC.

Beatrice H. Hahn, MD, a professor of Medicine and Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues have been studying the origin of HIV-1 in non-human primates for decades.

Climate change is warming the ocean, but it’s warming land faster and that’s really bad news for air quality all over the world, says a new University of California, Riverside study.

Kidney stones are a common and painful condition, with many sufferers experiencing recurrent episodes.