Category: Health

Officials for Maine’s largest healthcare provider recently apologized for sending their condolences to hundreds of people who were still alive in October.

The rates of bloodstream infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria will increase substantially across Europe in the next five years, driven largely by aging populations, according

Do not schedule eight AM classes. Communicate with your roommate. Wash your bedding regularly. Incoming college students are offered numerous pieces of advice before stepping

An analysis of brain scans from 572 people reveals that activity in brain regions linked to reward and social processing can predict how effective messages

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold.

Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a small but significant risk that these devices get infected

A comprehensive review published today in Brain Medicine illuminates the intricate connections between gut microbiota and sleep regulation, establishing the microbiota-gut-brain axis as a critical

What if the brain’s response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes deep inside chromatin? Researchers

Temperature is a key physiological factor that determines the speed of immune reactions. While this may seem obvious, it has remained largely unexplored at the

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help promote healing and regeneration

Researchers have discovered that free radicals generated at a specific site in non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes, may promote dementia, according to a Weill Cornell

The fall COVID-19 vaccine season is starting slowly for Pfizer, with U.S. sales of its Comirnaty shots sinking 25% after federal regulators narrowed recommendations on

Some 5.4 million adults use vapes daily or occasionally compared with 4.9 million using cigarettes, figures show.

Campaigners say IVF treatment should be less stigmatised in the workplace and come with legal entitlements to time off