How long does coronavirus live on surfaces?
The new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for as long as two to three days, tests by U.S. government and other scientists...
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Drugs fail to slow decline in inherited Alzheimerās disease
Two experimental drugs failed to prevent or slow mental decline in a study of people who are virtually destined to develop Alzheimer's disease at a relatively young age because they...
More Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, nursing homes
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind...
A healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk for Alzheimer’s
A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia even if you have genes that raise your risk for these mind-destroying diseases, a large...
Drugs make headway against lung, breast, prostate cancers
Newer drugs are substantially improving the chances of survival for some people with hard-to-treat forms of lung, breast and prostate cancer, doctors reported at the worldās largest cancer conference.
Obesity surgery benefits may be bigger for teens than adults, CU researchers find
Teens who have obesity surgery lose as much weight as those who have the operation as adults and are more likely to have it resolve other health problems such as...
What helps prevent dementia? Try exercise, not vitamin pills.
If you want to save your brain, focus on keeping the rest of your body well with exercise and healthy habits rather than popping vitamin pills, new guidelines for preventing...
Federal study gives new options for people with rare cancers
People with rare cancers have been out of luck ā not only do most lack good treatments but drug companies also don't pursue them because of small potential sales. Now,...
Tests suggest scientists achieved first “in body” gene editing
Scientists think they have achieved the first gene editing inside the body, altering DNA in adults to try to treat a disease, although it's too soon to know if this...
Could anyone have stopped gene-edited babies experiment?
Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where scientists and ethicists were discussing a technology that had shaken the field to...