Category: Health

Vaccination coverage varies with country of birth, according to a new review about the proportion of people vaccinated among immigrant groups conducted by the Norwegian Institute...

In a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers show that although two doses of a vaccine...

Scientists at the UCL have made a ‘surprising’ discovery that glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, mimics normal brain repair in white matter, which leads to the...

A University of Canterbury (UC) student has come up with a new computerized method of reading mammograms that could help radiologists detect warning signs of breast...

The human microbiome—the collection of microbes living in the gut—is now recognized as an important contributor to health and disease. The environment, the host, and microbe-microbe...

Across the U.S., vaccines are going into arms. Mask and physical distancing guidelines are easing. And people are going back to work and school.

A team of Tulane University researchers has launched a study to better understand how children are affected by skin and hair-type discrimination as they develop into...

Cancer drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors boost the immune system’s ability to find and destroy tumor cells, but they don’t work for most patients. Researchers at...

Sudden US backing for a global waiver on patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines offers hope to poor nations struggling for doses—but the big pharma industry thinks...

Activists cheered, Big Pharma complained and government leaders assessed next steps on Thursday after the Biden administration’s blockbuster move to support an easing of patent and...