Researchers at UCLA Health have identified a key gene that may help explain why women are more likely than men to develop a certain type of artery plaque linked to heart disease.
May 15, 2026
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Blood tests to detect potential signs of prostate cancer likely reduce the risk of dying from prostate cancer, an updated review finds. This is a shift from the previous version of the review, which did not find sufficient ...
May 14, 2026
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Even minimal exposure to modern medicine can rapidly change the human microbiome. In a new study appearing in Cell Reports, researchers reveal that the gut microbes of remote Amazonian Indigenous communities have begun shifting ...
May 20, 2026
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Why do some people recover easily from bacterial infections while others rapidly deteriorate into life-threatening sepsis? According to a new study published in Nature Communications, the answer may lie not only in the invading ...
May 28, 2026
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Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots respond to everyday health-related questions from general users with nearly 76% accuracy, which raises concerns about their trustworthiness in real-world client-facing applications, ...
May 30, 2026
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The changes from childhood to adolescence occur during puberty. In recent decades, there has been an increase in the phenomenon of early puberty. The scientific community is studying the issue from various perspectives; for ...
May 27, 2026
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A study led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson showed that giving the antibiotic azithromycin did not help preschool children seen in the hospital emergency room with bouts of severe wheezing.
May 19, 2026
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Measles in adults and children in the last few months in California have brought home the fact that the extremely contagious virus is in our backyard. Once under control and even eradicated, measles is making a strong comeback, ...
May 14, 2026
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Levels of depression and anxiety remain high and largely unrecognized among an estimated 1.8 million clinically vulnerable people in the UK, many of whom continue to live significantly restricted lives to protect them from ...
May 13, 2026
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Michele Barry, director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, explains how this strain differs, why public risk outside the DRC remains low, and what a global response requires.
May 22, 2026
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