Category: Health

Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks in almost every county

New antibiotic candidates for drug-resistant bacteria may reside inside prions, mis-folded protein in the brain best known for rare and fatal degenerative brain diseases.

A new gene therapy has been used to successfully treat a deadly childhood liver disease using mice that model this disease by researchers at UCL

This is a MedPage Today story. Thousands of employees of federal health agencies have been let go in a chaotic and slow-rolling Trump administration purge

Gender-questioning children will have to be at least 11 years old to take part in a clinical trial of puberty-blocking drugs.

This is a MedPage Today story. A patient at Provident Hospital in Chicago allegedly stabbed an emergency physician in the chest. (FOX 32) A physician

African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda

When H5N1 bird flu first began infecting U.S. cattle in early 2024, diagnosis was elusive, because in cows, the disease looked completely different.

The world’s first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive lung transplant was performed at NYU Langone Health.

Instagram use could influence not only how we see our bodies, but also how our brain perceives as “ours” the bodies we inhabit.

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich and Medical Faculty Belgrade, have developed a wearable

The altered presence of tiny fragments of neuronal genes, called microexons, causes hyperarousal in zebrafish. This is the main conclusion of an international study led

In a paper published in Cell, a USC Stem Cell-led team reports a new way of generating a renewable and expandable supply of the progenitor

DNA testing kits are often gifted for Father’s Day, Christmas and special occasions. The idea of learning more about yourself and unearthing some long-forgotten family