Health

July 6, 2026

Antibiotics weaken flu defenses in the lung

Credit: Andreas Wack, Francis Crick Institute Antibiotics can leave the lung vulnerable to flu viruses, leading to significantly worse infections...

DNA from tooth in Florida man’s foot solves 25-year-old shark bite mystery

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When Jeff Weakley tweezed open a blister-like bulge on his...

New study challenges claim that exogenous RNA is essential for sperm function

Scientists from the University of Bath are challenging the claims of two high profile papers from 2018 which reported that...

Novel computer model supports cancer therapy

Researchers from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) of the University of Luxembourg have developed a computer model that simulates...

Carbohydrate in the heart seems to help regulate blood pressure

New research suggests that a particular type of carbohydrate plays an important role in regulating the blood pressure in the...

Bench to beside study of a targetable enzyme controlling aggressive prostate cancer

PHILADELPHIA -- Prostate cancer represents a major health challenge and there is currently no effective treatment once it has advanced...

Study probes how to tell elderly patients not to bother with cancer screening

Over the past decades, the idea that all adults should get regularly screened for cancer -- with mammograms, colonoscopies and...

Copper compound shows further potential as therapy for slowing ALS

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A compound with potential as a treatment for ALS has gained further promise in a new study...

Study finds dramatic differences in tests assessing preschoolers’ language skills

Researcher examines language outcomes of children born preterm and full-term using different testsCredit: Caitlin M. Imgrund, Ph.D. About 1 in...

What do sick kids really want in hospital?

No-one has asked until now Feeling safe and being able to get to sleep at night are the things that...

Brain imaging may help identify teens at risk of increasing alcohol use

A whole brain imaging study finds that excess grey matter, the darker tissue of the brain, can predict escalating drinking...

Antidepressants reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes

WASHINGTON--Antidepressants reduce deaths by more than a third in patients with diabetes and depression, according to a study published in...

Cardiac genetic mutation may not always predict heart disease

Researchers at Penn Medicine and Geisinger find only 5 percent of patients with a mutation of the TTN gene have...

Why are we able to see moving objects against moving backgrounds?

Credit: University of Rochester, Duje Tadin, first author Visual motion is an important source of information for separating objects from...

Supervised fun, exercise both provide psychosocial benefit to children with obesity

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 2, 2019) -A program with clear rules, routines and activities,...

Top global public health scientists launch new challenge to anti-vaxxers

Search engines and social media organizations must do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information on childhood vaccination, and...

Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research

The neuroimaging community has made significant strides towards collecting large-scale neuroimaging datasets, which--until the past decade--had seemed out of reach....

Sense of smell, pollution and neurological disease connection explored

Credit: Patrick Drew, Penn State A consensus is building that air pollution can cause neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease...

Yellow fever virus responsible for current epidemic in Brazil originated in Amazon in 1980

Researchers have retraced the pathogen's route as it spread from the state of Pará by analyzing tissue samples from dead...

Study shows some generics can cost medicare recipients more than brand-name drugs