A new study finds that the pleasure center of the brain and the brain's biological clock are linked, and that high-calorie foods—which bring pleasure—disrupt normal feeding schedules, resulting in overconsumption

The study offers important answers about three emergency drugs that are used to treat prolonged seizures, known as status epilepticus

Researchers are seeking non-addictive chronic pain treatment options that produce few or no negative side effects

About 50 percent of people who reach the age of 85 will develop Alzheimer’s disease

When sea creatures first began crawling and slithering onto land about 385 million years ago, they carried with them their body armor: scales

A new technique developed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine will let a single cancer research lab do the work of dozens

Based on their findings, the researchers are optimistic that their discovery will hold true in people and are planning to confirm their findings in patients with depression

The inconsistency means doctors are left to make important patient-care decisions based on potentially inaccurate information, and patients with kidney disease may be paying for unnecessary nutritional supplements because of it

From 2011 to 2013, the ACA resulted in an eight percent increase in the diagnoses of early-stage colorectal cancer among U.S. seniors aged 65 and older, research shows

Model will be of a widely studied worm with a relatively simple cellular system made up of 20 cell types and about 20,000 genes

Currently there is no cure for exposure to lethal doses of radiation

Findings raise the tantalizing prospect that doctors could use the gene to prevent or delay at least some of the effects of aging

A new study from a UVA environmental scientist and colleagues shows about a third of the world’s malnourished population could be fed by using resources now used for biofuel production.

While it is known that ozone hinders the growth of many kinds of plants, including crop vegetation, the extent to which ozone damaged natural systems was not well understood.