Category: 6. Health

Seals give birth only when conditions are right. After mating, a female seal can delay implantation of the embryo in the uterine…

MUMBAI, India – Cervical cancer kills more than 75,000 women in India each year, according to figures recently disclosed in Parliament –…

Radiotherapy (RT) has long been a cornerstone in cancer treatment, providing local control over irradiated areas. However, recent studies have shown a phenomenon where cancer cells outside the radiation zone also regress, which…

Researchers have uncovered that sex-specific dysregulation of exosomal non-coding RNAs may drive different patterns of disease…

The Trump administration has indicated that it will fund a $1.6m study on hepatitis B vaccination of newborns in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau, where nearly one in five adults live with the virus – a move that researchers call…

As a strain of flu sweeps across the UK, experts in the Channel Islands warn it’s “something to take seriously” and are urging islanders to get vaccinated.

It comes as senior public health officials in the islands want residents to help reduce…

But genes make up only a small slice of our genetic code. Just around 2% of DNA…

When the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columbia with strong counter-cultural roots. “The community that I live in, home…

According to the most recent estimates of the International Diabetes Federation,¹ diabetes mellitus affects more than half a billion people worldwide, with an additional >600 million people affected by intermediate forms of hyperglycemia (eg…