Category: Health

It’s an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart’s arteries and helps predict risk of future heart disease.

Dementia with Lewy bodies is one of the most common forms of dementia in older adults, after Alzheimer’s disease.

Zika virus has been spreading for decades, but it first grabbed worldwide headlines in 2016. That February, with an outbreak sweeping the Americas, the World

A new study from the University of Oulu suggests that gut bacteria may send different biological signals in Parkinson’s disease.

The approach focuses on the patient priorities, seeing the same clinicians, and involving people close to them.

Without brain surgery guided by live AI assistance, Rhys Hibbert could have lost his sight to a tumour.

How do we decide what to do when faced with choices? And how does the brain adapt those decisions as the world around us changes?

This is a MedPage Today story. Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with COVID. Hayes is

A mother’s obesity during pregnancy may send molecular signals across the placenta that permanently alter her son’s liver metabolism, according to a new study in

Researchers developed a SuperLearner framework that combines established epigenetic clocks with machine learning to compare DNA methylation-based aging in residents of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Blue

Over the next year, nearly four million will receive invites on the NHS App or via text message, email or letter to order a free

Do you ever feel like sometimes you can master a new dance step almost immediately, while other times you struggle to nail it despite repeated

Almost everyone has blown a soap bubble through a straw at least once. Inspired by this thin soap bubble film, an “artificial lung that breathes”

Researchers have developed a “scaffold” that mimics natural tissue and could lead to more durable rotator cuff repairs, including for large injuries and cases involving