Category: 6. Health

This month, the Lancet published the world’s largest review on the health threats of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), showing that they are replacing fresh food on every continent and are exposing millions of people to long-term harm. Globally one…

A world-first single-dose vaccine against the dengue virus, manufactured and approved for use in Brazil, will especially benefit populations in hard-to-reach regions of the country such as the Amazon, say disease…

Researchers engineered an injectable silica-based scaffold that trains the immune system to attack S. aureus on medical implants, cutting bacterial load dramatically and even clearing infection entirely in some animals.

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The number of people with flu in hospitals across England is more than 50% higher compared with the same time last year, according to official statistics.

The figures, published by NHS England as part of its first weekly snapshot of the…

Kimchi has been enjoyed for centuries in Korea. But the spicy fermented cabbage dish has recently gained popularity in other parts of the world not only because of its delicious taste, but because of its potential to positively influence the…

A case of bird flu has been confirmed in a “backyard flock” of poultry.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the H5N1 virus was found in poultry and captive birds near Chedburgh, in Suffolk on Wednesday.

A 3km…

Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes. Currently, nearly 40 million…