Category: 6. Health

Dec 22 2025

A new study challenges what’s long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness. Investigators from Mass General Brigham used large public biobanks to determine that genes thought to…

A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help predict which critically ill patients on ventilators are at risk of underfeeding, potentially enabling…

In recent years, scientists have learned that key beneficial infant gut bacteria Bifidobacterium infantis are disappearing from infants in high-resource areas such as the United States and Europe. Now, a new study published in the…

Given the medical advancements today – in an ideal world, all children should be born free of infections like HIV, syphilis or hepatitis-B; all pregnant women should be accessing full spectrum of maternal and newborn care…

According to data from Iranian health officials, 255 confirmed dengue fever cases have been recorded in the southern province of Hormozgan, with the capital city of Bandar Abbas accounting for the vast majority of cases (248).

The increase is…

Flu is currently spreading throughout the United States, and is likely to accelerate as people begin to gather for the holidays and children are on school break.

A third case of bird flu has been confirmed in a Norfolk town this month.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the H5N1 virus had now been confirmed at a large commercial poultry unit near Dereham in Norfolk.

“A 3km…