Category: 6. Health

Flu activity continues to decline across the country, but the season remains classified as high-severity for children, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting four new deaths in children in today’s FluView update,…

More than 27,000 women in Europe die from cervical cancer each year. The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for this disease and for at least five other cancers that affect both women and men. HPV vaccination is among the…

ACP also offers screening advice for females aged 40-49, frequency of screening, discontinuing screening, and females with dense breasts

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — New guidance from the American College…

The advent of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the Nobel-prize–winning technology is being adapted to fight cancer, with mRNA vaccines in clinical trials for melanoma,…

In patients with chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) with a single chronic total coronary occlusion (CTO) and no significant concomitant lesion, there was a greater improvement in quality of life (QoL) and symptom relief at 12 months, with no…

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Scientists test if ketamine’s antidepressant effects occur under anesthesia

Stanford…

Three cases of meningitis B have been confirmed in the south-west of England, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), and young people in the area have been offered vaccinations against the disease.

The cases, which have all been…

Researchers have documented the arrival of Sporothrix brasiliensis, a fungus that causes skin infections. It was identified in Uruguay after confirming cat-linked infections in people, pets, and local animals.

That finding recasts a single…

UPMC and University of Pittsburgh clinician-scientists have weaned and kept multiple liver transplantation patients off of all immunosuppressant drugs for more than three years through a first-in-human clinical trial of a unique…