While there is a lot of controversy about diagnostic medical radiation exposure, very little is known about the real impact on health of the cumulative effects of low dose radiation received from medical diagnostics.
In an effort to get some science on the issue, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center [...]

A new study illustrates that biological – bacterial in this case – diversity is important to our health, and our knowledge is limited.
The health of our skin — one of the body’s first lines of defense against illness and injury — depends upon the delicate balance between our own cells and the millions [...]

A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such potassium channel was found to be 2.5 fold higher than normal in the brain memory hub of people with the chronic [...]