Category: Health

There’s now another reason to love Japan’s famous matcha: a study in mice suggests that the green tea powder could reduce the need to sneeze

Western Massachusetts, a patchwork of rural communities and low-income cities, is a difficult place to find a primary care doctor if you don’t already have

An investigation into cosmetic surgery chains by KFF Health News and NBC News has prompted consumer warnings from industry groups representing plastic surgeons and a

March 5 Zach Dyer reads the week’s news: The Trump administration is calling for sharp restrictions on direct-to-consumer drug ads, and for some people facing

The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway. “The person said he was an

Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer linked to asbestos, but a trial hopes to prolong patient lives.

Researchers in Worcestershire are using electrodes as a non-invasive diagnosis tool.

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals.

The effects of spinal cord injuries are complex and multifaceted. People lose not only the ability to control the movement of their limbs, but also

Drug delivery researchers have vastly improved the potential of genetic therapies by overcoming the challenge of consistently getting genes and gene-editing tools where they need

The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical trial stages, the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Antibiotic treatments can affect the composition of the community of bacteria living in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, for a long time.

The non-hormonal daily pill could benefit 500,000 women for whom HRT is not suitable.

Bank cashier Aleisha Rochester died two weeks after undergoing a routine procedure to remove an abscess.