The 88-year-old Bonner died of heart failure Saturday afternoon in Boston, said her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. She had been hospitalized since Feb. 21, Yankelevich said. Bonner grew famous through her marriage to Sakharov, the Soviet Union's ...

The most common form of this condition is called autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), a condition passed on to children from one parent affected with the disease that is found in 600000 people in the United States alone. ...

Researchers have identified new genes associated with risk and progression of a rare neurogenerative disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). The paper appears in online in Nature Genetics. This gives new insight into a disease that has ....

Researchers are focusing on new ways and thereby develop new drugs to treat heart failure condition. Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Turin looks on how enzymes in the body play a role in heart failure and the effect i...

Ciliary dysfunction in different organs has been associated with a wide range of disorders from rare genetic diseases such as polycystic kidney disease and Kartagener's syndrome, to diabetes, obesity and schizophrenia.

by Kathy Jones on June 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM Vaccines to protect against HPV virus, which causes cervical cancer, are working successfully as a drop in high-grade cervical abnormalities was seen, an Australian study has found. Australia, which is one ...

ATLANTA – The gap in cancer death rates between college graduates and those who only went to high school is widening, the American Cancer Society reported Friday. MIKE STOBBE; The Associated Press ATLANTA – The gap in cancer death rates between c...