Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior.

When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells that can fight off illness.

ANN ARBOR-Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence.

Biologist Deborah M. Gordon's decades-long study of the collective behavior of harvester ant colonies has provided a rare real-time look at natural selection at work.

Posted under: Engineering , Health and Medicine , News Releases , Research , Science , Technology - It's a familiar scenario - a patient receives a medical implant and days later, the body attacks the artificial valve or device, causing complications to an already compromised system.

UAlberta medical researchers discover new ways to target, develop and design drugs to prevent and treat viral infection.

ANN ARBOR-You're standing near an airport luggage carousel and your bag emerges on the conveyor belt, prompting you to spring into action.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (05/16/2013) —Informed consent is the backbone of patient care.

Findings may offer a new way to kill cancer cells by forcing them into an alternative programmed-death pathway.

Posted under: Health and Medicine , News Releases , Research , Science , Social Science , Technology , UW and the Community - DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete.