Family members of children with a staph infection often harbor a drug-resistant form of the germ, although they don't show symptoms.

?KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A study published online in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (

Researchers have found evidence that early drug and alcohol use is associated with lower levels of educational attainment.

Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, the lowest bone in the neck.

Current colorectal cancer screening guidelines for individuals with first-degree relatives with precancerous colon polyps are based on studies that were not properly designed or were too limited to shape those guidelines.