Category: Health

It follows the UK’s largest and fastest growing meningitis B outbreak to date in Kent earlier this year.

The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.

A study involving more than 58,000 adolescents from 21 countries found that “unstructured free time” – defined as periods without adult supervision or activities guided

University of Houston College of Pharmacy researchers have secured more than $1 million in new funding to support three separate studies targeting sepsis, Alzheimer’s disease

A newly accepted pilot study in the Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies reports that direct-current (DC) microcurrent stimulation was associated with a statistically significant

Animal testing has long been the standard for evaluating new drugs before they reach human patients. But when it comes to cancer immunotherapy drugs, animal

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called “senescence” secrete a protein that causes dysfunction in other brain cells, according to a study

In a landmark moment for both the treatment of heart disease and philanthropic support, The Marcus Foundation has awarded the head of USC Stem Cell

New research at Aston University has shown that a variety of compounds is responsible for the antimicrobial action of mānuka honey, not just the sugar

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have been proposed as a therapeutic approach to shut down the production of faulty proteins in a wide variety of diseases, including

Congo says 2,000 people have died in its Ebola outbreak, the fastest on record

England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver

The brain’s immune cells are increasingly recognized as key players in Alzheimer’s disease, but exactly how they change as the disease develops has remained unclear.

Light therapy may improve alertness and attention/reaction time during simulated night shifts, with the strongest benefits appearing after light exposure. Effects on executive function were