Kentucky's leading universities will receive more than $22 million to establish research centers examining the connection between diabetes, heart disease and obesity. The grants are part of $54 million the National Institutes of Health awarded Thursd

More intensive treatment for patients with acute kidney injury did not bring better results in a large randomized, controlled clinical trial sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Institutes of Health. ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins crucial to human health.Computat

The National Institutes of Health is seeking patients who qualify for free care at the government's top research hospital as scientists study why they're sick.

African American kidney disease patients in both Canada and the United States are less likely than Caucasian Americans to have access to kidney transplants, but only African-Americans in the United States have worse health outcomes than Caucasians after a