For nearly a century, the gold standard for closing severe burn wounds has been split-thickness skin grafts. Surgeons remove the outermost layer of skin, the epidermis, and a sliver of the underlayer, ...

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The very mention of cancer strikes fear into our hearts. But not every cancer is serious from the outset. Stage 0 cancer, ...

Cucumber peel color can decide whether a fruit looks fresh, desirable, and worth buying. In many markets, especially in northern China, darker green cucumbers are preferred over paler ones.

BBC health journalists answer key questions as research suggests the HPV vaccine has prevented 200 deaths from cervical cancer in England.

For decades, researchers studying myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) have focused on the disease's underlying genetic cause: a ...

Most people picture the bathroom as the germiest room in the house, and it’s easy to see why. Yet when microbiologists ...

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Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as ...