Health

September 19, 2025

Silicosis: Ominous resurgence of an occupational lung condition reported

June 18, 2020

New research in the journal CHEST sounds an alarm about long-term health consequences, including massive pulmonary fibrosis, for workers who...

Seeing corneal degeneration in a new light

A UT Southwestern study shows what happens over the decades it takes for one eye disease to develop and cause...

Adhesive film turns smartwatch into biochemical health monitoring system

Credit: Yichao Zhao/UCLA UCLA engineers have designed a thin adhesive film that could upgrade a consumer smartwatch into a powerful...

CUNY SPH weekly COVID-19 survey update week 12 — Vaccines

Lack of knowledge may stop many New Yorkers from taking a COVOD-19 vaccine, but personal experience of disease may encourage...

COVID-19 Innovation Challenge funds virtual nursing station

Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University launch national post-operative virtual care studyCredit: Hamilton Health Sciences HAMILTON, ON - JUNE 17,...

The Race for 5G Supremacy

Why Millennials in Both China and U.S. Will be the Key to Who Emerges as #1 in 5GCredit: World Scientific...

Researchers develop microscopy technique for noninvasive evaluation of wound healing

Credit: Images courtesy of the GSK Center for Optical Molecular Imaging Researchers at the GSK Center for Optical Molecular Imaging...

Jan Philipp Junker receives Helmholtz AI grant

Credit: Pablo Castagnola/MDC Scientists generally understand how stem cells transform into a specialized heart, brain or muscle cell. But now...

Latest findings on bitter substances in coffee

Why caffeine is not the sole contributor to bitternessCredit: ©Leibniz-LSB@TUM; Dr. Antonella Di Pizio Coffee is very popular around the...

UVA physicians, medical students launch COVID-19 podcast

Series offers health tips, closeup look at coronavirus care, researchCredit: UVA Health UVA School of Medicine physicians and students have...

Researchers study COVID-19, health disparities on caregivers of people with ADRD

Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the US are caregivers for the more than 6 million people...

Call for caution for using a CAR-T immunotherapy against acute myeloid leukemia

Credit: Pablo Menéndez Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy which incidence increases with age, that is biologically, phenotypically,...

Liver perfusion could save 7 in 10 rejected donor livers

Credit: Mr Hynek Mergental, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Consultant Surgeon at the UHB Liver Unit...

Young people with early psychosis may not require antipsychotic medications to recover

Credit: Photo: Orygen Researchers at Orygen have found that some young people with early stage first episode psychosis (FEP) can...

Study evaluates stress level of rehabilitated sea turtles during transport

Credit: Connie Merigo/New England Aquarium BOSTON, MASS. (June 16, 2020) - A new study co-authored by six scientists with the...

Fred Hutch and University of Washington experts: Treat COVID-19 earlier to save lives

New review article in Open Forum Infectious Diseases suggests "golden opportunity being missed"Credit: Fred Hutch News Service | Robert Hood...

Honeybee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides

Credit: Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, Oregon State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - The lives of honeybees are shortened - with evidence of...

Premature epigenomic aging acts like a ‘sleeper cell’ that is awaken by Western-style diet

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The epigenome is sometimes referred to as the "software" or "operating system" of the genome....

BioRescue’s most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation in southern white rhinos

The international consortium performed the procedure in the German Serengeti Park HodenhagenCredit: Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen In order to prevent the extinction...

Primitive stem cells point to new bone grafts for stubborn-to-heal fractures