Kentucky measles cases hit 104 after Laurel County confirmed seven infections. Who is most at risk, how to check immunity, and what comes next.

Do you remember the last time you were laughing and simply could not stop? Perhaps it was a situation when you should not have been laughing at all.

New research has shed light on how exposure to cigarette smoke could affect reproductive health in both men and women, identifying changes in biological processes involved in ovarian function and sperm production.

An experimental cataract lens also can help treat a person's glaucoma, new clinical trial results show. The artificial lenses carry small pads of a widely used glaucoma drug called bimatoprost, which is released gradually into the eye, researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).

Most people will become infected with Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, at some point in their lives. In addition to being a common herpesvirus, EBV persists in its host for life as a "quiet" or latent infection. While EBV infection may have no symptoms, it often causes mild illnesses such as mononucleosis (known as the "kissing disease," because EBV spreads through saliva). In rarer instances, EBV plays a critical role in multiple sclerosis and nearly 2% of all cancers.

Children with intellectual disabilities face greater mental health difficulties when they are from a disadvantaged background, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Results from a Phase I clinical trial led by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James) show a possible way to improve therapy options for patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant B-cell blood cancers. The findings are published in Blood Cancer Discovery.

We now take for granted the idea that a genome-wide association study, or GWAS, can help identify genetic variants associated with complex traits. Such studies have identified loci associated with everything from breast cancer to heart disease to diabetes.

People with endometriosis often report struggling for years to have their agonizing pelvic pain, severe period cramps and other life-impacting symptoms taken seriously by doctors. New research from The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) may help change that, as scientists have mapped the endometriosis lesion microenvironment in detail.

People need social contact to build relationships. At the same time, close contact carries a risk of spreading infectious diseases. In a study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from institutions including the Karolinska Institutet sought to understand how people balance these factors against one another.