Category: Health

A man has lived for a record nine months with a transplanted pig kidney while waiting for a human transplant.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading faster than efforts to track and contain it

The £21m hub brings together primary care, community wellbeing and leisure services in one location.

This is a MedPage Today story. Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.

Scientists have found that targeting a particular group of proteins in the uterus muscle (myometrium) can suppress human uterine contractions in laboratory studies and delay

Folic acid – an essential vitamin added to flour and cereals and prescribed at high doses for cancer patients and people with blood disorders –

A newly funded study at the University of Oklahoma aims to increase prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening among Black men in Oklahoma, who die from prostate

The influence of the hormone progesterone on mood is well known. Now researchers from the University of Barcelona have shown how higher levels of progesterone

A shared biological secret that helps explain chronic exhaustion in conditions including long Covid and PTSD has been discovered by researchers at the University of

The things you’re doing to make your sleep better could actually be making your sleep worse.

A consultant tells the Scotcast podcast that A&E patients ending in ‘corridors and cupboards’.

A woman whose 13-year-old sister took her own life says the “spiral that she was going through” was evident from her social media history.

This is a MedPage Today story. Public health officials are looking into reports of a small potential uptick in neurologic complications of influenza in children

Privately owned, standalone infusion centers are providing an alternative to hospitals and doctors’ offices for patients with chronic Illnesses.