Category: 6. Health

Addis Ababa – A new study by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is exploring how mobile phone messaging can improve tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence in Ethiopia and Liberia, two of the continent’s…

A bowel cancer survivor has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money in aid of fellow sufferers’ care, to give back after his recovery.

Mark Harrington was joined by friend Dean Hands, both from Warwickshire, climbed to the summit of the mountain…

Trigger warning: This article mentions mental health issues like anxiety and depression, and talks about suicidal thoughts/suicide. Reader discretion is advisedThe Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia released a safety alert on…

For many people living with cancer, symptoms such as pain, anxiety or insomnia can quickly spiral into an emergency room visit. Such visits can be financially costly and take an emotional toll on patients and their caregivers. 

A…

An updated Cochrane review has found that calcium supplementation has no effect on pre-eclampsia, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of calcium in preventing hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.

Researchers from…

A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day.

The MIT team used Raman spectroscopy — a technique…

For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 years ago and has shown potential as an anticancer agent.

The compound has a complex structure…