Category: 6. Health

Background

Dysphagia affects approximately 23–80% of stroke patients, manifesting as coughing, choking, aspiration, penetration, food residue, and reflux.^1,2 This condition significantly increases the risk of pneumonia, malnutrition, and…

A pesticide used for decades on farms across the United States and around the world may significantly increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a major new study from UCLA Health.

Researchers…

Monday 12 January 2026

North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) has teamed up with players from Bristol Rovers Football Club as part of a collaboration with Bristol Rovers Community Trust (BRCT) to encourage local people to get their flu…

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have launched Observer, the first multimodal medical dataset to capture anonymized, real-time interactions between patients and clinicians, allowing outsiders to peer…

Introduction

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by a mycobacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (known as Koch’s bacillus), which most often affects the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis) but can also affect other organs…

Original story from Korea University College of Medicine

Researchers discover that cholesterol-lowering drug, called pitavastatin, can overcome chemotherapy resistance in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells.

A Korea University…

Sugar tastes great for good reason: we evolved to like it, back when honey was a hard-to-get, energy-dense treat and we spent half of our time running around after antelope. Now that it’s much easier to get and we don’t move as much, that…

A decade-long study of postmenopausal women suggests tea may offer modest bone benefits, while very high coffee intake could raise concerns for hip strength later in life.

Study: Longitudinal Association of Coffee and Tea…