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Here is an important reason to stay in touch with friends and family: social isolation causes memory and learning deficits and other behavioral…

Sub-Saharan Africa has a high maternal death rate and an even higher stillbirth and neonatal death rate. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas…

To mark Endometriosis Awareness Month in March, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine will host a special…

The severity of immune-mediated intestinal diseases such as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or inflammatory bowel diseases is known to be associated…

As prices are in flux at the grocery store and elsewhere, Baylor College of Medicine cardiologists say not to let the threat of inflation lead you to…

Dr. Paul Pfaffinger has been named the new chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been a Baylor faculty member…

In the ongoing research and treatment of diabetes, the focus is typically on the two forms of the disease that dominate public awareness. Type 1 has…

Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to other tissues to seed new cancerous growth, causes most cancer…

Research into the medical use of psychedelics to treat mental health is on the rise, but the impact of this research remains unclear. To address…

Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich, Kyle and Josephine Morrow chair and professor in the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, the Verna and Marrs…

About 196 million women worldwide suffer from endometriosis, a condition that typically causes pelvic pain and infertility. Endometriosis develops…

Gym-related injuries and strains can occur among people of all fitness levels. Whether you are brand new to exercising or are a frequent flyer at the…

Your skin cells are clearly different from your brain cells even though they both develop in the same person and carry the same genes. They are…

The start of the new year is the perfect time to schedule your preventative health screenings. An expert with Baylor College of Medicine gives her…

Stress is a universal feature of life, but some organisms are better equipped to cope and thrive during stressful periods of time. That isn’t always…

Twenty years ago, after the human genome was first sequenced, geneticists began conducting large genome-wide association studies to identify genomic…