Category: 6. Health

Amazon is testing workers at its Coventry warehouse for tuberculosis after an outbreak of the lung disease.

A handful of workers from the site were found to have contagious tuberculosis (TB) last year, prompting the UK Health Security Agency…

Sleep problems are increasingly common among children and adolescents, affecting emotional regulation, cognitive development, and healthy conditions. As families are seeking quick and accessible solutions, melatonin supplements have…

A new and important discovery comes from the field of oncological research thanks to the joint work of researchers from the Sbarro Institute in Philadelphia, the National Cancer Institute – Pascale Foundation, and the University…

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable malignancies, yet gaps in prevention persist across patient populations and health systems. A recent scoping review mapped the application of the social ecological model (SEM) in cervical cancer…

Introduction

Mitral insufficiency (MI) is a heart disease in which the mitral valve does not close properly, resulting in backflow of blood or regurgitation from the left ventricle into the left atrium during ventricular contraction.¹ Mitral…

A three-arm cluster randomized clinical trial examining tailored messaging interventions for updated COVID-19 vaccines in emergency departments (EDs) showed that neither messaging nor simple inquiry about vaccine acceptance significantly…

Eduardo Vilar-Sánchez has spent more than 10 years pursuing a goal that seemed very distant, but which he now sees as a little closer: to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer.

The physician and researcher is leading a study that presented…

A national panel of experts has issued the strongest call yet for the Department of Health and Social Care to overhaul how it approaches dementia prevention, pointing to vital evidence that dementia risk can be reduced and providing…

Introduction

Inhaled bronchodilators, including long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMAs) and long-acting β₂-agonists (LABA), are recommended in international treatment guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…