A shortage in medical cement is likely to lead to delays in some patients getting joint surgery, NHS bosses say. It comes after Heraeus Medical, the main supplier of bone cement to the health service, ...

Parkinson's disease does more than cause tremor and trouble walking. It can also affect sleep, smell, digestion and even thinking. That may be because the disease disrupts communication in a brain ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists saw great benefits from a type of intermittent fasting in improving Crohn’s disease symptoms. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Crohn’s disease is a chronic bowel condition, ...

Feb 5 (Reuters) - (This Feb 5 story has been corrected to fix Prolia's 2025 sales to $4.4 billion, not $1.05 billion, in paragraph 5) Sign up here. Its pharmacy benefit management unit, Caremark, will ...

Heart disease can sneak up on a person, something Dr. Jennifer Haythe sees as she treats patients dealing with the No. 1 killer of Americans. “You can have many risk factors for heart disease that is ...

Peripheral artery disease affects approximately 236 million persons worldwide and is diagnosed with an ankle–brachial index of less than 0.90. Among older persons, 3.3% of those without peripheral ...

The “big truck, small man” phenomenon is also seen in the animal kingdom. The loudest howler monkeys were found to have the smallest packages. Hyoid bone size, which is responsible for vocalizations, ...

If you lose your sight, you make up for it with other senses. If one arm is amputated, you learn to do twice as many things with the other arm. The balancing act continues, constantly juggling and ...

For decades, paleontologists have debated whether a small tyrannosauroid skull found in 1942 belonged to a juvenile T. rex or was a full-grown member of a previously unknown species, eventually dubbed ...

Dec 29 (Reuters) - Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE.O), opens new tab said on Monday that late-stage studies showed its drug for a type of genetic bone disease failed to reduce the number of fractures ...

Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes swelling and inflammation in the gut. According to the British Society of Gastroenterology, over half a million people in the ...