Category: 4. Health

A newly discovered bacterial weapon against fungi can kill even drug-resistant strains, raising hopes for a new antifungal drug.

Fungal infections have been spreading rapidly and widely in recent years, fueled in part by climate change. Some fungi, including Candida auris, have developed resistance to some highly effective antifungal drugs which have been in use for decades. So scientists have been searching for new drugs to keep fungi in check.

Researchers in China may have…

A measles outbreak that began a few months ago in Texas has risen to nearly 500 cases across multiple states. At the same time, the National Institutes of Health says it will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be…

When most people hear “wellness habits,” they think of things you can do to make you feel better, be healthier, or live longer, like meditation apps, yoga classes, or eating quinoa. What they don’t often consider is how wellness habits can improve how you look.

As it turns out, specific evidence-based wellness habits can enhance…

More and more children living in Texas are starting to get diagnosed with liver damage due to high doses of cod liver oil, amid the…

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has never been afraid to challenge conventional wisdom— sometimes acting in alignment with the best science, other times rejecting it.

Now, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy has significant influence over national healthcare policy. In this role, many will judge his success by whether he can reverse the…

Pat Geraghty, the longtime top executive of one of the nation’s fastest-growing health insurance companies in Florida Blue, will retire at the end of this year, the company said.

Geraghty, who…

The paper, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that 55% of patients who were assigned to a patient navigator received follow-up colonoscopies within a year compared with 42.5% of patients who received usual care without a navigator.

“It is important for patients with abnormal…

This research, led by Dr. Robert D. Meade, former Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Dr. Glen Kenny, Director of HEPRU and professor of physiology at uOttawa’s Faculty of Health Sciences, highlights the urgent need to address the impacts…