Surgery for stress urinary incontinence (leaking that occurs with a cough or sneeze) improves symptoms of another form of incontinence, called urgency urinary incontinence, in women who have both types, according to a study supported by NIH.

Allergy to peanut, which is often severe, is one of the most common food allergies in the United States. Discontinuing oral immunotherapy or continuing it at a reduced dose led to a decline in its protective effects.

Teen girls—but not boys—who prefer to go to bed later are more likely to gain weight, compared to same-age girls who go to bed earlier, suggests a study funded by NIH.

A new study has found that hospital emergency room closures can adversely affect health outcomes for heart attack patients at neighboring hospitals that are near or at full capacity. Conversely, when a new emergency department opens, health outcomes for patients at those so-called “bystander” hospitals improve.

Scientists from NIH and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have devised a potential treatment against a common type of leukemia that could have implications for many other types of cancer. The new approach takes aim at a way that cancer cells evade the effects of drugs.

An innovative graphene-based film helps shield people from disease-carrying mosquitos, according to a new study funded by NIEHS. The research, conducted by the Brown University Superfund Research Center, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new NIAID-funded study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, and infection with non-polio enteroviruses.

Long-term exposure to air pollution was linked to increases in emphysema between 2000 and 2018, according to a new study funded by NIEHS and NHLBI.

Scientists report that a loss of cells in the brain called astrocytes is associated with stuttering, a potentially lifelong and debilitating speech disorder. An estimated 1 percent of adults in the United States are affected by stuttering.

Scientists using an experimental treatment have slowed the progression of scrapie, a degenerative central nervous disease caused by prions, in laboratory mice and greatly extended the rodents’ lives.