Category: 6. Health

A large umbrella review finds that app- and wearable-based interventions can spark small yet meaningful improvements in kids’ activity, diet, and weight, offering scalable digital pathways to healthier habits.

Review: Lifestyle…

A new review uncovers how chronic alcohol consumption accelerates Alzheimer’s pathology through oxidative stress and neuroinflammatory cascades, while spotlighting promising molecular and metabolic interventions to protect the…

Slashed contributions from wealthy countries to an anti-malaria fund could allow a resurgence of the disease, costing millions of lives and billions of pounds by the end of the decade, according to a new analysis.

The fight against malaria faces…

Cuts to the world’s biggest funder of malaria prevention, including by the UK government,…

An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential “new era” in tackling blindness.

Doctors who implanted the sim card-shaped prosthetic devices say…

A researcher works to untangle the reasons and raise awareness to help keep the autistic community safe

Biting, pinching and slapping are behaviors parents teach their little ones not to do to other people. But parents of autistic youth…

The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced today that there were three new local dengue fever cases (two in Tainan City’s South District and one in Taoyuan City’s Taoyuan District).

The cases, were two men and one woman, aged…

In the 5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, post-COVID-19 sequelae, also known as long COVID, has grown in notoriety and concern. Concurrently, the landscape of research, possible treatments, and patient support has become…

“In Huntington disease, we want to track the neuropathological and the clinical progression, and we want to make sure these are sensitive to potential disease-modifying treatments, which I’ll talk about in a little bit. The most commonly used…