Category: 6. Health

New research from the University of Virginia has found mild head injuries can increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease later in life – but scientists say acting quickly after injury may help reduce the…

Introduction

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and preeclampsia (PE) are significant common complications in pregnancy with similar risk factors, such as obesity, advanced age, and recurrent pregnancy.¹ In the 21^st century, the global burden of…

Flu is making people miserable from coast to coast, thanks in large part to a new strain called subclade K.

That’s why infectious disease experts are telling people to run, not walk, to…

January 7, 2026

People diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly called juvenile diabetes, learn many strategies for self-management that must evolve as they age.  Despite advances in treatment, the burdensome nature of managing T1D –…

Reviewed by Leeza Eguerra, blood bank supervisor at Rady Children’s Hospital Orange County (Rady Children’s)

Learn about each step of the donated blood journey 

When you donate blood at Rady Children’s, it begins an important…

A potential treatment for heart attack and stroke, derived from a spider venom molecule identified by University of Queensland researchers, has been administered to the first participants in a clinical trial.

The phase 1 study,…

To be a genius requires extraordinary intellect and talent, but also hard work and persistence. And although the mythology of genius can be problematic because it reduces the collective work that goes into developing scientific breakthroughs to…

• One of the first validated tools to predict before treatment if a patient will have a favorable biochemical response in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

• By identifying patients who are unlikely to…