Category: 6. Health

A low-fat vegan diet that doesn’t limit calories or carbohydrates could help people with type 1 diabetes reduce insulin use and insulin costs, according to new research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published…

For children and young adults diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a common type of bone cancer for that age group, the odds of survival can be devastatingly low (20-30%) when the disease spreads to the lungs.

Treatments for osteosarcoma…

New York health officials recently confirmed the state’s first locally-acquired case of chikungunya virus, marking the first such case in the United States…

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are well known as a form of cancer treatment. Researchers at UZH have now identified a new, important function of these inhibitors: promotion of tissue healing. This finding could help advance the…

People diagnosed with cancer face the possibility of sexual dysfunction after undergoing cancer treatment. However, a recent study found that although patients are willing to receive care and information about sexual health, organizational…

Pneumococcal infections were significantly reduced among children in the first 3 years of Poland introducing the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) to its National Immunization Program (NIP), according to a study published in…