Category: 6. Health

An overhaul of US childhood immunisation guidelines has dropped the number of vaccines the CDC recommends from 17 to 10.

The new list of recommended vaccines, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, includes polio and measles…

Lung infections like pneumonia are among the world’s top killers — but diagnosing them is notoriously hard.

Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have found a way to identify these infections in critically ill patients by pairing a generative…

The Trump administration will slash routine vaccine recommendations during childhood from 17 to 11 jabs – the biggest change to vaccines yet under the purview of longtime vaccine critic Robert F Kennedy Jr.

The changes, which US health officials…

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one in three adults has prediabetes. This condition occurs when blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not yet high enough for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis….

For years, scientists have puzzled over the paradoxical relationship between cancer and retinoids, the metabolites that animals and people produce when their bodies break down vitamin A. 

About 40 years ago, a leukemia patient was cured with a…

Our bodies age at different rates, sometimes closely correlated to the years we’ve spent alive, and sometimes less so. A new study links another factor to the speed at which our brains age: how much we help others.

Regularly volunteering can…

Thousands of people who have had a stroke are ending up severely disabled or dying because the NHS has too few specialists to treat them quickly enough, senior doctors are warning.

A chronic shortage of stroke consultants across the NHS means that…