Just over one in 10 deaths from a wide range of infectious diseases can be attributed to obesity worldwide, finds a major new study led by a University College London (UCL) researcher. People with ...

A recent study has found gut bacteria resistant to common antibiotics (ampicillin and ceftriaxone) in a sizable percentage of ...

A new Stanford Medicine study reveals that colorblind men face 52% higher bladder cancer death risk because they can't see warning signs early enough.

In a new review from top dietitians in Australia, it appears very few global trials of GLP-1s have taken into consideration ...

The sequence pattern matters: Interruptions or “hitches” and loss of these within the C-A-G repeat and C-C-G repeat stretches play a major role as to when symptoms start with loss of interruptions ...

Daily Mail reveals everything you need to know about chikungunya virus, as US officials issue more travel warnings.

What is kidney cancer? Kidney cancer is a disease where cancer cells begin to develop abnormally in the kidneys. As cancer cells grow rapidly, they can form a tumor, and ...

Philanthropic funding from the FA Alliance Innovation Fund awarded to five Oxford researchers to support development of novel therapeutics ...

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Blood cancer (leukemia) is the most common childhood cancer. Early diagnosis through simple blood tests can save lives, but lack of awareness delays treatment. TheHealthSite.com ...

Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular ...

Researchers have identified compounds in Aloe vera which may help in treating Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia in the UK.