Category: 6. Health

For more than 20 years, hormone therapy for menopause has carried a warning label from the Food and Drug Administration describing the medication’s risk of serious harms – namely, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and possibly dementia.

On…

The “severely ill” Washington man, infected with H5N5, an avian influenza virus, was hospitalized with a high fever, confusion and respiratory distress.

Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly half of the average Australian’s diet because the country has “fallen behind international best practice” on nutrition, a co-author of a major new global report says.

A series published in leading…

The ‘artery on a chip’ method successfully mimicked the physical appearance of blood vessels, and blood flow simulations generated similar fluid dynamics and movement of natural blood flow.

This was the standout moment, because the researchers…

A successful push to expand uptake of the HPV vaccine will prevent an estimated 1.4 million deaths from cervical cancer, marking a major milestone for global health.

Around 86 million girls in high-risk countries were inoculated, Gavi, the…

The Infectious Diseases Society of America updated its flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine guidelines today, noting that live-attenuated flu vaccines should not be used in immunocompromised patients and should be avoided by those…