For more than 100 years, it has been believed that sunlight and vitamin D deficiency were associated with the risk…
Pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening surge in blood pressure, is an enigmatic condition. Each year, it causes the deaths of more than…
People with atopic (allergic) diseases like asthma or eczema may be at heightened risk of the painful and often disabling…
Cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develops when neurons begin to die, which can be caused by inappropriate immune…
A new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has examined how T cells of the immune system…
While myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID are not the same disease, they appear to have features of…
A new study projects nearly 1 billion people will be living with osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, by…
-Ask any neurologist: Parkinson’s disease is a brain disorder. The conspicuous symptoms of Parkinson’s disease—uncontrollable tremors, slowed down motions, and…
Findings from a two-year study of nearly 2,400 solid organ transplant recipients, conducted by the Johns Hopkins Transplant Research Center…
Patients with pancreatic cancer who took the benzodiazepine lorazepam (Ativan), commonly prescribed to treat anxiety during cancer treatment, had a…
An unusual case of a Long Covid patient’s legs turning blue after 10 minutes of standing highlights the need for…
Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is still a daunting challenge because of the degree of complexity involved, requiring highly specialized…
A new digital headset designed to measure alterations in brain function could change decisions about how quickly an athlete is…
It is now almost a rule of thumb: As soon as an athlete falls to the ground with a sudden…
A new editorial paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as “Aging (Albany NY)” and “Aging-US” by Web of…
Scientists studying how poxviruses evade natural defences in human cells have identified a new approach to treatment that may be…
A study led by the University of Eastern Finland found that better physical condition and higher daily activity predicted lower…
Amyloid deposition is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). The deposition process…
How people feel about their sleep has a greater impact on their well-being than what sleep-tracking technology says about their…
Pelvic pain in women with endometriosis is attributed to neuroinflammation. Researchers investigated biochemical mediators of endometriosis-associated pelvic pain to provide…
When you need accurate information about a serious illness, should you go to Google or ChatGPT? An interdisciplinary study led…
A medical therapy that inhibits the growth of cancer cells may one day be effective at treating Lyme disease, according…
In 2022-2023, an outbreak of monkeypox, now known as mpox (caused by the monkeypox virus or MPXV) led to 87,000…
Struggling to shave seconds off your Park Run PB – don’t worry scientists have revealed it could all be down…
Lymph nodes are one of the body’s first lines of defense against disease. Immune cells are dispatched from these biological…
In their comprehensive meta-analysis (comprising 221 randomized controlled trials involving 65,601 patients), researchers investigated the effectiveness of various pharmacological therapies…
When people who publicly reject COVID-19 vaccines later die from the disease, observers have complex reactions to their fates, a…
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is leading an awareness campaign that aims to reduce missed or…
About one in two women are affected by cystitis during her lifetime, and many suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections….
Around one third of people with heart disease suffer from sleep problems. In a paper published in the journal Science,…