The success of a daily pill that can temporarily make mice sterile have researchers hoping human trials on a male birth control pill can begin later this year. >> Read more trending news News… [+1126 chars]
Maintaining balanced blood sugar is one of the most important things you can do for your overall healthnot only does it positively affect your energy and mood, but it can also help to prevent serious… [+6384 chars]
How can air purifiers help with asthma? Asthma is a common condition that affects approximately 25 million Americans – about 8% of adults and 7% of children. We don’t know what causes asthma, but the… [+6774 chars]
In the initial days of the pandemic, several people with discoloured and itchy toes started thronging the doctor's office in the US. The phenomenon, which typically appears in cold weather, coincided… [+2431 chars]
Our bowels accommodate billions of active microbes that affect the health, a fact that is arousing increasing interest also among athletes. For example, performance-enhancing intestinal microbe popul… [+10015 chars]
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is renewing calls to both public and healthcare professionals to help reverse an upward trend in tuberculosis (TB) cases in the UK. In 2011, TB incidence in Eng… [+3434 chars]
Malaria, the parasitic infection spread by mosquito bites, is especially deadly for young children. Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) have significantly reduced malaria infections in sub-Saharan… [+4245 chars]
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one in three new moms had postpartum depression, which was nearly three times higher than the rate before the pandemic, data published in BMC Research Notes… [+8248 chars]
The A2A receptor regulates how vigorously the innate immune system attacks diseased cells. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now been able to show for the first time how an important inhibit… [+4743 chars]
A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children, according to new resear… [+7456 chars]
New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (2326 April), suggests that the symptoms connected to lon… [+4294 chars]
Burst wave lithotripsy (BWL) – ultrasound bursts used to fragment kidney stones in the body – may become a more accessible alternative for non-invasive treatment of kidney stones. Kidney stones affe… [+3355 chars]