Category: Health

President Tweety McTreason will soon nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its acting chief, National Institutes of Health Director

Is the UK’s heart and lung transplant service still world beating?

​The thymus is a small organ located in the upper chest that plays a central role in the immune system: it produces T cells –

New research distinguishing between passive and mentally active sitting in association with dementia has found that adults who engaged in extended durations of mentally passive

​A copper-based agent complex kills cancer cells in a novel way. It receives its activation signal through light. It could help where existing chemotherapy treatments

The war in Iran is challenging pharmaceutical supply chains and revealing strains in the system. The post Geopolitics and Drug Shortages first appeared on Science-Based

Spear Bio, an innovator in ultrasensitive protein biomarker detection, showcased three new SPEAR UltraDetect™ immunoassays—brain-derived p-Tau 217 (BD-pTau 217), α-synuclein (α-syn) and phospho-Ser129-α-synuclein (pS129-α-syn)—at the International

CDC surveillance shows that the highly divergent SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2 spread to at least 23 countries and was detected in U.S. travelers, patients, airplane wastewater

After more than a decade living with chronic kidney failure, Mexican activist Samara Martínez has turned her personal struggle into a campaign to decriminalize euthanasia

Wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means’ nomination to become U.S. surgeon general is stalled a month after senators grilled her on vaccines during a tense confirmation

Jersey’s wellbeing score is below UK and France in survey of data from 41 countries.

The U.S. agency that provides healthcare to Native Americans has a facilities problem

An international team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, McGill University and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has discovered

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators