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Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor with no experience treating patients, is set to become the director of the NIH.
Genetic analysis clearly shows leprosy went from one species to the other. But the route is unclear.
Researchers have shown that an essential protein involved in Alzheimer’s causes cells to overheat, which may explain how the disease appears.
Many different factors can change your stool color, including diet, lifestyle, and health issues.
Structures providing energy to cells have a crucial role in vision.
Exercising was shown to give elderly mice the muscles of those much younger.
The protective gene was passed onto us by an ancient human species.
Researchers have found that immune cells from a cold attack Covid differently from vaccines.
The new variant has 46 mutations making it more vaccine-resistant and infectious.
Aggressive tiger mosquitoes capable of spreading debilitating tropical diseases such as dengue and Zika are spreading through Europe, but scientists hope it may be possible to control these biting pests with a form of insect birth control and drones.
"Animals that remain in more human-dominated environments are those that are more likely to carry infectious diseases," the authors explain.
The findings could radically alter our understanding of this condition, alongside other autoimmune disorders.
Washington could see dramatic increase in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Practice makes perfect!
Yes, even chocolate.
Luckily it's not the only one because I already have it. Double helpings.
"I imagine in the future we can make human livers where you can order what kind of function you want, or even enhance function."
This could be a game changer.
A pet's sickness shouldn't normally be transmissible to humans -- except in this case.
Air pollution kills 5.5 million people around the world yearly.
Antivaxx trends and complacency are bringing back a disease from the brink of eradication.
The remains of a 20-year-old woman found in Sweden may help scientists retrace the origin of the deadly disease.
Captain Obvious to the rescue!
This is an observational study and, as such, the findings cannot be used to establish a cause-effect relationship -- but it does raise some important questions.
Bless you!
We're all in this together -- we can't let the diseases win.
Vaccines could go a long way towards alleviating poverty in the area.
Sorry, ladies.
Although the case was not yet confirmed, deer farms in the area have already been notified to take extra precautions.
Fortunately, they're hot on the heels of the mechanisms that allow them to affect brain cells.
Unfortunately... not so many good news this time.
How good are you at detecting diseased people?
"This really is the worst-case scenario," said one scientist.
Living in a sterile, controlled environment make lab mice not such a good model for human diseases.
We really do have a lot in common with dolphins.
Some pretty bad news for European snakes.
Viruses are mutating and adapting to the human body.
South Africa has announced plans for what will be the continent's largest study.
Elephants don't walk on high heels, but they act like they do nevertheless.
Dialysis on the go may soon become reality.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially endorsed the world's first Dengue fever vaccine, a disease that infects 390 million people each year.
Westerners are horror-struck by the prospect of an Ebola or Zika pandemic in their very own neighbourhood. Media panic aside, that's extremely unlikely thanks to modern medical science. Our close cousins, the Neanderthals, weren't so lucky tens of thousands of years ago when they first met us, humans. British researchers analyzed ancient bone DNA and sequenced pathogens and found some infectious diseases are far older than we thought. They argue that it's very likely that humans passed many diseases to Neandertals, the two species having interbred, like tapeworm, tuberculosis, stomach ulcers and types of herpes.
Mouth microbes may be connected to a variety of illnesses, more and more studies are showing. Dental care has been disconnected from general health care for many years now, but the more you start to think about it, the stranger it seems. After all, you don’t really separate any other branch of medicine so… why […]
In what has the potential to be a paradigm shift, doctors report extraordinary progress in treating patients with a severe, terminally form of leukaemia.
The transplant community has established a new committee to address the recent Zika virus outbreak, and protect organ transplant patients from the potential dangers of the virus.
It's a horrific disease, but one that may be going to the history books soon.
A new highly infectious diseases has been observed in tadpoles from three continents, threatening global populations. The disease, which was identified and described by British scientists, is a distant relative of an oyster disease. “Phylogenetic analyses revealed that this infectious agent was affiliated with the Perkinsea: a parasitic group within the alveolates exemplified by Perkinsus […]
A disease called black band coral disease is affecting nearly half of the reef sites researchers have surveyed in waters off Kauai and threatens to destroy Hawaii's reefs, according to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
It's increasingly hard to eat less sugar, as market shelves are filled with sugary products. In the past ten years alone, global sugar intake has risen by ten percent. In what's not the first and surely not the last appeal of the sort, the Wold Health Organization reports adults and children from the Americas to Western Europe and the Middle East must halve their daily sugar intake to reach acceptable levels. Otherwise the risk of obesity and tooth decay, to name a few, will skyrocket. In terms of daily energy intake, the new guidelines means that people should keep sugar at a maximum of 10% of equivalent energy.
In just 7 years, a disease called white-nose syndrome has killed more than 5 million North American bats, almost wiping out entire colonies. The disease has been reported in caves and mines of 25 states throughout the Northeastern U.S. and no treatment or practical way of halting the disease has been proposed. The disease is caused by […]
