Category: 6. Health

Cuts to the world’s biggest funder of malaria prevention, including by the UK government,…

An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential “new era” in tackling blindness.

Doctors who implanted the sim card-shaped prosthetic devices say…

A researcher works to untangle the reasons and raise awareness to help keep the autistic community safe

Biting, pinching and slapping are behaviors parents teach their little ones not to do to other people. But parents of autistic youth…

The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced today that there were three new local dengue fever cases (two in Tainan City’s South District and one in Taoyuan City’s Taoyuan District).

The cases, were two men and one woman, aged…

In the 5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, post-COVID-19 sequelae, also known as long COVID, has grown in notoriety and concern. Concurrently, the landscape of research, possible treatments, and patient support has become…

“In Huntington disease, we want to track the neuropathological and the clinical progression, and we want to make sure these are sensitive to potential disease-modifying treatments, which I’ll talk about in a little bit. The most commonly used…

One decade after researchers discovered that feeding babies peanuts early could prevent dangerous allergies, new data shows the change is paying off.

A national study led by Dr. David Hill, a pediatric allergist at the Children’s Hospital of…

In an interview with Pharmacy Times®, Sara Assaf, MD, assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, discussed key considerations when selecting biologic therapies for severe asthma, including patient factors, treatment characteristics,…

Matthew Biszewski, PharmD, clinical pharmacist at Endeavor Health, discussed how the FDA’s approval of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) expands access to therapy for patients without diabetes.

During his session…