Health

November 4, 2025

Research reveals new insight into why breastfed babies have improved immune systems

Credit: University of Birmingham Research led by the University of Birmingham and Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust has...

Wits University scientists artificially infect mosquitoes with human malaria to advance treatment

Wits University scientists, with local and global partners have artificially infected mosquitoes with human malaria and identified a new chemical...

Cancer research reveals how mutations in a specific gene cause different types of disease

Credit: University of Birmingham Leading cancer experts at the University of Birmingham have solved a long-standing question of how various...

New suspicious lesions on breast MRI in neoadjuvant therapy

New suspicious findings occurred in 5.5% of breast MRI examinations performed to monitor response to neoadjuvant therapy; none of these...

New combination drug therapy offers hope against methamphetamine addiction

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Jan. 13, 2021 - A new treatment that combines two existing medications may...

A rift in the retina may help repair the optic nerve

Credit: Thomas Johnson and Johns Hopkins Medicine In experiments in mouse tissues and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say...

Studying and treating COVID-19’s long-term impact

Rush leads new CDC-funded study, launches post-COVID clinicCredit: INSPIRE for COVID-19 COVID-19 has wreaked havoc around the globe, causing nearly...

Low cost chlorine dispensing device improves tap water safety in low-resource regions

Engineers invent device that requires no electricity or moving parts, lets users collect water as they usually doCredit: Amy Pickering...

Age matters in identifying maltreatment in infants and young children with fractures

Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM. DES PLAINES, IL -- Among children who were...

Research to advance environmental sound classification wins IEEE Best Paper Award

Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, January 13, 2021 - The paper "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for...

WVU Public Health professor aims to better understand the needs of pregnant women with substance use

Credit: West Virginia University Dr. Brian Hendricks, a research assistant professor with the West Virginia University School of Public Health's...

Scoring system to redefine how U.S. patients prioritized for liver transplant

Credit: Getty Images Liver transplant priority in the U.S. goes to the sickest patients, which fails to consider other important...

Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies

Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating...

A fly’s eye view of evolution

Research team led by Göttingen University investigates molecular basis of eye size variation in insectsCredit: Georg Bullinger The fascinating compound...

NIH scientists study salmonella swimming behavior as clues to infection

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium bacteria (S. Typhimurium) commonly cause human gastroenteritis, inflammation of the lining of the...

Scientists find antibody that blocks dengue virus

Credit: Rajani Arora, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute A team of researchers led by the University of California, Berkeley...

Inferring human genomes at a fraction of the cost promises to boost biomedical research

Credit: Delaneau Group Thousands of genetic markers have already been robustly associated with complex human traits, such as Alzheimer's disease,...

Workaholism leads to mental and physical health problems

Work addiction risk depends on occupationCredit: Morteza Charkhabi Workaholism or work addiction risk is a growing public health concern that...

New studies support blood test for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: Photo: University of Gothenburg In three recent publications in Molecular Psychiatry, Brain and JAMA Neurology researchers from the University...

Lipid biomarkers in urine can determine the type of asthma