Category: 4. Health

The Texas measles outbreak has grown by six cases since the state’s last update earlier this week, health officials reported Friday morning.

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Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building an international knockoff drug powerhouse and has become one of the world’s most successful—and richest—female entrepreneurs.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s booming drug business started not in a laboratory but in a tin-roofed shed in Bengaluru, the city formerly known as Bangalore and the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Inside, the 25-year-old was using the…

When public figures take actions that contradict both expert consensus and common sense, we’re left to wonder: what are they thinking?

Two recent examples make this dilemma especially visible: President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and Health and Human Services…

Given the rise in brain-based conditions and the growing development and investment in neurotechnologies to target them, it is important to understand how the public views these interventions and whether they would be willing to use them.

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A new guideline to diagnose and treat hypertension is aimed at helping primary care clinicians, including family physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, manage the disease. The new guideline, the first of two from Hypertension Canada, is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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Remember COVID-19? That thing that’s killed around 350 people a week in the U.S. over the past month and continues to leave more and more people with long Covid? Remember the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 that’s…

Neuropathy, a disorder in which damage to nerves can impair sensation and movement, has many causes, including infection. Now, researchers from the UK have identified distinct genetic changes in a newly-discovered neuropathy and believe that their work will provide insights into the causal mechanism and why some previously healthy people develop neuropathies after…

We’ve long known that a lack of sleep is bad for the heart—but scientists are now starting to understand exactly how it causes harm.

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During the 2024 presidential campaign, politicians and their surrogates repeatedly raised concerns about abortion later in pregnancy. The topic grabbed media attention and continues to inspire strong emotions, but most of the discussions include numerous misunderstandings.

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For patients with acute ischemic stroke due to large-vessel occlusion who present within 4.5 hours, intravenous tenecteplase before endovascular thrombectomy is associated with higher functional independence at 90 days, according to a study published online May 21 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the annual European Stroke Organisation Conference, held from May 21 to 23 in Helsinki.

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