Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent conditions affecting tens of millions of U.S. adults, traditionally ...

A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

Historical trends and future projections of the number of people with overweight and obesity suggest alarming parallel increases in serious and potentially fatal comorbidities, particularly type 2 ...

More recent understanding of relaxin as a vasodilatory hormone has stemmed, in part, from investigations of the maternal renal and cardiovascular adaptations to pregnancy, in which relaxin is emerging ...

MANILA, Philippines — Nathalie Mago's work day begins after she's tucked her three daughters into bed and flicked off the lights in their house north of the Philippine capital Manila. As her ...

The NH House passed a bill Thursday 197-167 that would ban health care professionals from administering hormone treatments or puberty blockers for the purpose of gender transition to anyone under 18.

Surprisingly, they say this is a trend with some truth behind it. 'Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands. It is essential in helping our body respond to stress (physical ...

Research from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, published in Nature Communications, laid the groundwork for the first hormone-free ... retinoid signaling pathway with YCT-529 ...

This is in part because lung cells can be driven to a profibrotic phenotype by multiple pathways that reinforce each other, so that targeting one pathway alone may not be effective to slow or stop ...

Sex-Specific Alterations of the Kynurenine Pathway in Association With Risk for and Remission of Depression in Adolescence. Biological Psychiatry , 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.11.020 Cite ...

Often referred to as the "stress hormone," cortisol is an important hormone that the body produces in the adrenal glands, which are located atop the kidneys. Because the chemical is triggered ...