A team of Duke University Students have created portable system able to treat the raw sewage of up to 1200 people, helping to protect the clean water in remote areas with no sewage systems available.

There are two things that this editor fears about blood draws: the fact that he has deep veins, and the prospect of being stabbed in the arm by a merciless phlebotomist.

An online magazine for the deaf community, Limping Chicken, recently ran an item on how deaf and hearing people sneeze differently.

An injectable sponge could bring a new level of relief to diabetes sufferers by automatically releasing insulin as needed.

Using gold nano particles on top of a PVC substrate, researchers have built a new type of cheap, flexible sensor that simultaneously detects pressure, humidity and temperature with surprising accuracy.

Two men with HIV seem to have been cleared of the virus after receiving stem-cell transplants to treat their lymphoma, scientists announced Wednesday at an International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur.

By embedding tiny pieces of gold in polyurethane, researchers have developed a stretchable, flexible conductor that could bring us a step closer to truly “foldable” devices.

Heart failure with concomitant pulmonary hypertension is a growing health problem with a high mortality rate, above all in older people.

Kidney patients who take calcium supplements to lower their phosphorus levels may be at a 22 per cent higher risk of death than those who take other non-calcium based treatments, according to a new study by Women's College Hospital's Dr. Sophie Jamal.

As a class, people who don't drink at all have a higher mortality risk than light drinkers. But nondrinkers are a diverse bunch, and the reasons people have for abstaining affects their individual mortality risk, in some cases lowering it on par with the risk for light drinkers, according to a University of Colorado study.