Category: 6. Health

Carle Health has placed temporary visitor restrictions to limit the spread of respiratory illnesses at each of its facilities, including Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal.

The Urbana-based health care…

Over time, hematopoietic or blood stem cells can quietly acquire mutations that push them to divide just a little more aggressively, creating a larger group of clones in the bone marrow. In a fraction of people with this phenomenon, called clonal…

With summer being a time for showing off skin, you might be considering a new tattoo or two.

If so, you’d be part of a long-running tradition — we’ve been inking ourselves for thousands of years. 

Ötzi the Iceman, a well-preserved mummy from…

Through December 17, 2025, officials with the Japan National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) report 13,085 syphilis cases after reporting 185 during week 50.

Tokyo reports the most cases with 3264, accounting for 25 percent of all cases…

The risk of polio remains in Lahore after the virus was once again detected in the city’s sewage system, despite ongoing immunisation campaigns, health department sources said on Thursday.

According to officials in the Punjab Health Department,…

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It is an all-too-familiar scenario: you reheat a bowl of last night’s noodles for lunch, devour it, then return to your desk and gradually droop over the course of the afternoon, to the point at which you are battling to keep your eyes open. Or…

Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, January 1, 2026…

• The fall bird migration in California typically peaks from September through November.  And this past year, scientists discovered a new wave of avian influenza – or bird…