Category: Health

You might not have heard of it, but can training your vagus nerve give you a moment or two of peace?

A month since GPs in England started offering online appointment bookings, patients recount their experiences.

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

Overweight people shed large amounts on jabs but gain 0.8 kg a month on average once off them, study shows.

Researchers are looking to see if there’s a link between hormonal fluctuations and gambling addiction.

Florida is suing three major medical associations accusing them of pushing misinformation about gender-affirming care to drive demand for their members’ services.

The response to the pandemic led to “enormous outlays of public money which exposed it to the risk of fraud and error”, a report says.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has temporarily left a prison in Brasilia for medical examinations after hitting his head

In Brazil, the early detection of genetic alterations in lung cancer through liquid biopsies could be a valuable tool for expediting diagnoses and guiding patient

A class of ultrasmall fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles developed at Cornell is showing an unexpected ability to rally the immune system against melanoma and dramatically

Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine.

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading

An analysis of genetic data from over 900,000 people shows that certain stretches of DNA, made up of short sequences repeated over and over, become

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single cells and forming multicellular structures.