Sitting above each kidney are two small endocrine glands about the size of walnuts. These are the adrenal glands, responsible ...

Scans revealed 34% of patients who were obese based on BMI were misclassified, and should have been in the overweight category. And 53% of those labelled overweight based on BMI were in the wrong ...

Introduction Secondary hypertension accounts for 5%–10% of all hypertensive patients. Among these conditions, endocrine hypertension, such as primary aldosteronism (PA), Cushing’s syndrome (CS) and ...

Suffolk County will study the possibility of a Peconic Bay ferry system as a watery workaround to East End traffic jams caused by summer tourism, the fall harvest and the daily "trade parade" of ...

It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, positing that they used a pulley and counterweight system to erect it so ...

Supporting existing research on the benefits of viewing original artwork versus reproductions, a new study found that seeing authentic art can help drop cortisol levels, among other positive effects ...

Kimchi may do far more than add flavor to meals—it could help fine-tune the human immune system. A clinical study using advanced single-cell genetic analysis found that regular kimchi consumption ...

The Mayo Clinic has developed a smartwatch system that can alert parents to an incoming temper tantrum so they can stop these screamfests in their tracks. The implications are endless — calmer kids, ...

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide ...

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are prevalent in our environment. Dr Josef Köhrle, Senior Professor of Molecular Endocrinology and Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Endocrinology, discusses with Lorna ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

CHARLOTTE — Leaders with Mecklenburg County EMS (MEDIC) said the EMS System Study is currently underway. During the county commissioner’s meeting on Tuesday, MEDIC said it selected the company, ...