Diseases
How you drink your daily tea may decide whether it helps or hurts your heart
The same daily brew can tip either way, and one habit at the kitchen counter is what decides it.
Diseases
Ten minutes of brain ultrasound eased delusions in a small schizophrenia trial
Researchers in New York aimed sound waves at a deep brain circuit and watched something shift that pills often cannot touch.
Diseases
One antibiotic pill after sex is linked to steep drops in two of the most common STIs
A new Australian analysis of 78,000 gay and bisexual men hints at one of the most promising shifts in sexual health prevention in years.
Diseases
8 warning signs of ovarian cancer most women mistake for something else
The earliest clues often look like a cranky stomach or a bladder having a bad week, which is exactly how they slip past women and their doctors.
Diseases
8 warning signs your gut trouble could be Crohn’s disease, not just IBS
Some symptoms can look like a sensitive gut, but doctors treat them as a signal that something structural is going on.
Diseases
How you drink your daily tea may decide whether it helps or hurts your heart
The same daily brew can tip either way, and one habit at the kitchen counter is what decides it.
Diseases
Ten minutes of brain ultrasound eased delusions in a small schizophrenia trial
Researchers in New York aimed sound waves at a deep brain circuit and watched something shift that pills often cannot touch.
Diseases
One antibiotic pill after sex is linked to steep drops in two of the most common STIs
A new Australian analysis of 78,000 gay and bisexual men hints at one of the most promising shifts in sexual health prevention in years.
Diseases
8 warning signs of ovarian cancer most women mistake for something else
The earliest clues often look like a cranky stomach or a bladder having a bad week, which is exactly how they slip past women and their doctors.
Hepatitis A and B: One causes more than 1 million deaths a year
Two viruses can attack the same organ, yet the way they spread and the damage they cause are remarkably different. While hepatitis A is usually a temporary infection, hepatitis B can remain undetected for decades before developing into cirrhosis or liver cancer. The latest global figures reveal why both diseases remain serious health concerns.
Explained: COVID-19
More than three years after the global COVID-19 health emergency ended, the virus continues to cause hospitalisations and deaths worldwide. New figures reveal which age groups remain most vulnerable, while researchers are still investigating why some people develop serious health problems long after their initial infection.
Explained: Ebola
An Ebola outbreak has become the second-largest ever recorded, with thousands of deaths and infections spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The virus responsible has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, raising urgent questions about who is at risk, how the disease spreads and why survival depends so heavily on early medical care.
Half a million heart deaths a year come down to one number most people never check
Researchers put a figure on what the world's leading preventable cardiovascular risk is quietly costing, and the fix is already on most pharmacy shelves.
FDA clears a drug that lets some rectal cancer patients skip surgery entirely
The approval only covers a narrow group of rectal cancer patients, but for them it may rewrite what treatment looks like.
Scientists may finally know why statins make muscles hurt
Scientists finally got a close-up look at the drug and caught it doing something unexpected inside your muscle cells.