Category: 6. Health

China formally integrated the HPV vaccine for girls aged 13 and over into its National Immunization Program on November 10 in a move aimed at strengthening cervical cancer prevention nationwide.

Local health authorities will offer two doses of…

Bladder cancer ranks among the ten most common types of cancer worldwide. The main treatment is bladder removal surgery, and despite advances in systemic therapies, recurrence is frequent in the most aggressive forms of the disease….

Experts involved with the World Federation of Public Health Associations – including Australian public health expert Professor Michael Moore AM – have called for increased efforts to protect older people from illness caused by…

UCLA research finds that fewer than 1 in 4 eligible younger adults completed colorectal cancer screenings after the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lowered the recommended screening age to 45 from 50.

The…

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a debilitating hereditary condition in which fluid-filled sacs form and proliferate in the kidneys. Over time, the painful, growing cysts rob the organs of their function, often leading to dialysis…

As of 2024, over 40 million people in the world are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-a chronic, life-threatening infection that remains one of the leading global causes of death. Even decades after its discovery,…

Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful ‘senescent’ cells that accumulate with age and ramp up the kind of tissue damage and inflammation that slowly brings…

Obesity severity is incrementally associated with a broad range of cardiometabolic and renal disease burden, as discovered by researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Recently published in Obesity,…