Canadian and German researchers are teaming up to identify new drug combinations to treat people with obesity and type 2 diabetes. The goal is to develop personalized prescriptions that are more eff… [+3010 chars]
Patients who overcome severe COVID infections suffer the same cognitive impairment that people generally go through between the ages of 50 and 70, a new study has found. This is the equivalent of lo… [+3375 chars]
Enlarge/ A medical worker arranges nucleic acid samples at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site on May 3, 2022 in Beijing, China. 74 with 43 posters participating The omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1… [+4609 chars]
Secondary tuberculosis in lungs and close-up view of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria; 3D ... [+] illustration getty The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic goes well beyond the disease itself. It e… [+5404 chars]
Feature Researchers have identified the blood clotting and immune protein pathways that are activated in severe cases of COVID-19 in children. The breakthrough study is hoped to pave the way for ea… [+4785 chars]
Three new highly transmissible sub-variants of the Covid-19 Omicron strain have been detected in both South Australia and Victoria this week.This comes as New South Wales and Victoria recorded a comb… [+1698 chars]
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has released new information on when to get a Covid-19 vaccine. The guidelines are for those who have caught Coronavirus, recovered an… [+1183 chars]
Diseases that disappeared during the pandemic would "be back for sure" now that people were interacting much more, Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett says. "There will be increases in transmission … [+3876 chars]
Published in Clinical Nutrition, researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School looked at colonic hydrogen sulfide -; a toxic gas in the body that smells like rotten eggs -; production i… [+2354 chars]
Alzheimer's is a condition that affects one in every 14 people aged 65 years and over, yet there's currently no simple or reliable test for the disease. Now, scientists have developed a smartphone a… [+5685 chars]
In India in 2021, an estimated 504,000 people died from tuberculosis, or TB. Thats almost one per minute. More than a quarter of the estimated TB cases worldwide are in India. In 2018, the UN commi… [+6007 chars]
A new study led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows the impact of early amyloid-β and tau protein accumulation on disrupting connections between brain structures that are i… [+4643 chars]