SYDNEY — Virtually every medicine is known to cause at least a few unintended side effects, but have you ever wondered how meds like aspirin or opioids may be affecting your immune system? Scientists… [+4893 chars]
Image caption, The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in ducks at Gressingham Foods, near Redgrave A further outbreak of bird flu has been found in East Anglia, according to the Department of Enviro… [+2384 chars]
By Markian Hawryluk/Kaiser Health News BEND Monica Melkonian wanted the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. It was only one shot and then she would be protected against the coronavirus. So she w… [+13159 chars]
(CNN)An Omicron-like variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 -- one that appears to be highly divergent from circulating strains and sticks out on a long branch of the virus' family tree -- has bee… [+4606 chars]
Paris (AFP) Two years after the official start of the pandemic, some countries are now trying to "live with Covid", however scientists warn that potential new variants and unequal vaccination rates t… [+4679 chars]
A woman has admitted she spent almost a decade trying to hide her face after 'daily picking sessions' of up to six hours left her looking like she had permanent chicken pox. Aubrey Wagner, of Columb… [+9899 chars]
These are the facts: Every 40 seconds an American has a heart attack. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Every four minutes someone dies of a stroke. These are scary st… [+3394 chars]
It's been some months since Nicki Minaj and others amplified the falsehood that COVID vaccines made men's testicles swell up. And now some researchers have found that the COVID-19 virus gets into the… [+2526 chars]
When it comes to Alzheimer’s, these researchers say to trust your gut. A group of European and UK scientists conducted multiple studies to prove the link between gut health and the disease which cau… [+3219 chars]
On the list of “Things That Suck” getting a UTI is probably in the top three. First of all, they’re extremely painful and while they can be remedied with antibiotics, leaving your UTI untreated shoul… [+5819 chars]
From McMaster University (P.J.D., A.L., M.H.M., E.P.B.-C., N.D., D.C., P.A.K., M.J.M., J.S., Y.L.M., R.M., S.F.L., S.I.B., S.H., F.K.B., G.H.G., S.Y., R.P.W.), Hamilton Health Sciences (P.J.D., A.L.,… [+2393 chars]
Immune therapies have revolutionized cancer treatment in recent years, but there's still a lot to be discovered in terms of how well they work for individual patients. Researchers from cancer center… [+2879 chars]