Public Health

Four-year-old Cartier McDaniel was on life support at a Colorado hospital, and doctors told his family he was unlikely to survive.

Sometimes bacteria lurking in people's guts can get them drunk, even if they don't consume any alcohol.

Frequent teen vaping might boost the risk of exposure to lead and uranium, potentially harming brain and organ development, suggests research published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

A Dutch man with lymphoma and other blood disorders was infected with the COVID-causing virus for nearly two years, during which time the pathogen evolved numerous mutations

Addis Ababa ‒ Fourteen-year-old girl Saba. D. (name changed), from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, has just received her first and final dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer. This cancer is the second most common cancer among women in Ethiopia after...

Residents of several ‘hotspots’ have been afflicted by kidney failure in the past few decades – and no one knows why.

Scientists study factors such as obesity, antibiotic abuse, high alcohol consumption and changes to the microbiome to explain the trend

Experts say the US is not sharing as much data on the outbreak as it should.

The World Health Organization has approved a new version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile.

The report calls out Nestlé's “double standard" for adding sugar to baby food products in developing countries.

A loss of visual sensitivity could be an early predictor of dementia.

Patients were not able to receive organ donations because the altered records "effectively inactivated the candidates on the liver transplant waiting list," Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center said in a statement.

If health care is interpreted in the truest sense of caring for people’s health, it must extend well beyond the boundaries of hospitals and clinics.

Mali is among the countries currently suffering extreme heat with some areas hit by a temperature of 48,5°C, has recorded more than 100 deaths, victims of the heat wave. Malian meteorologists say the city Southwestern di Kayes recorded the hottest day in African history on April 4, 2024. The country...

Experts explain what the expected FDA ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products really means for everyday Americans.

Response to FDA warning letter, proposal for FMT regulation, and some background of this project.

Half of mental health hubs for staff have been forced to close following funding cuts

As more states legalize recreational cannabis products, there’s been greater consumer demand for more powerful weed, raising the possible of risk of psychiatric disorders.

The world's most powerful MRI scanner has delivered its first images of human brains, reaching a new level of precision that is hoped will shed more light on our mysterious minds – and the illnesses that haunt them.

As of April 3, the man infected with B virus was still being treated in the ICU, health officials said.

In a letter to the agency, a group of experts called on the commissioner to revoke its approval, saying the test doesn't work.

As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbers of women with serious health problems including pre-eclampsia

The lawsuit is the latest effort to force the government to ban menthols, which are disproportionately used by Black smokers and young people.

A person in the US state of Texas is recovering from bird flu after being exposed to dairy cattle, officials said Monday amid growing concern over the current global strain of the virus as it spreads…

Vials of replica weight loss drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro are being illegally shipped across the world from a house on the outskirts of Sydney.

Swedish researchers say inflammation caused by obesity is likely to increase risk of developing conditions such as MS

Officials in Iowa and Missouri estimated that nearly 800,000 fish had died in waters that flow into the Missouri River.

Researchers have used Google Street View to study hundreds of elements of the built environment, including buildings, green spaces, pavements and roads, and how these elements relate to each other and influence coronary artery disease in people living in these neighborhoods.

Nodding syndrome is a distressing disease that stunts growth, harms brains and sparks convulsions. Though its cause is still unknown, there is now hope that epilepsy drugs can help afflicted children

Hospitals and doctors are stretched to the limit after more than 1.5 million people catch the virus so far this year

In recent years, broccoli has gained a reputation as an excellent vegetable due to its high levels of a particularly beneficial compound called sulforaphane.

A patient with an unusual variation of the condition helped researchers visualize the demonic distortions he sees when looking at human faces.

Scientists discovered that a common type of bacteria has two distinct subspecies. One of them shields tumor cells from cancer treatment.

In 2021, around a whopping 43 percent of the global population suffered from some kind of neurological condition.

The Texas resident became an inspirational figure, graduating from law school and writing a memoir despite spending more than 70 years inside an iron lung.

Two new studies document rare cases in which people who rinsed sinuses with unsterilized tap got infected with brain-eating amoebas.

Prague's elderly mayor coughs and splutters during a public meeting as authorities battle increase.

Viruses are nonliving biological entities whose host range encompasses all known forms of life. They are deceptively simple in description (a protein shell surrounding genetic material with an occasional lipid envelope) and yet can infect all known forms of life. Recently, due to technological advan...