Smoking tobacco is known to worsen symptoms of periodontitis and reduce responsiveness to treatment. Using high-resolution spatial transcriptomics, researchers identified differences between smokers ...

The U.S.’ new dietary guidelines, unveiled Wednesday, make notable changes to the country’s prior guidance about healthy eating, placing a higher emphasis on protein and full-fat dairy while advising ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - The start of the new year means dozens of new Texas laws are now in effect. The changes have wide-ranging impacts on our state’s education system, law enforcement, housing and ...

He has promised a major shake-up of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Here’s what experts are watching for. By Alice Callahan When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as health secretary last year, ...

Periodontitis is widespread and can have serious consequences for overall health. Researchers at Fraunhofer have identified a substance that selectively inhibits only those bacteria that cause ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S. research enterprise has been scrambled by a series of political decisions ...

For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

The drug targets a specific mutation that applies to only 2% of ALS patients. A new drug may slow progression of -- and even reverse -- symptoms of a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS ...

Many of the businesses in New Mexico’s billion-dollar cannabis industry pay steep tax rates as part of a federal tax code restricting deductions on drugs that the government considers to be the most ...

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

The Oregon School Activities Association has reached a final decision on the classifications for all high schools for the 2026-30 school years. For large schools in the Eugene-Springfield area, the ...