Category: 4. Health

The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that AI was able to identify…

This is according to a new study led by the University of Cambridge, which suggests that adolescents with “internalising” conditions such as anxiety and depression report feeling particularly affected by social media.

Young people with these…

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have deleted a cluster of genes in wheat that generates gluten proteins that can trigger immune reactions without harming the breadmaking quality of this globally…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to open an office in Singapore as it seeks to deepen collaborations with governments, philanthropies and health research institutions across Southeast Asia.

“The Gates Foundation is putting up an office here to access the science [and] to partner with the philanthropic community,” Bill Gates, the billionaire cofounder of Microsoft, said Monday at the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore.

Gates…

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way.

One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte of the plant kingdom.

In the Southeastern U.S., where I live, you know it’s spring when your car has turned yellow and pollen blankets your patio furniture and anything else left outside. Suddenly there are long lines at every car wash in town.

Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population.

But on the flip side, some professions have very low rates of suicide. One of them is education. National and state data shows that educators in the U.S., including teachers, professors and librarians, are among the least likely to die by suicide.

We’re a team of researchers at the Center…

In a move that could dramatically reshape the landscape for rare disease treatments, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has announced plans to create a new pathway for drugs targeting rare conditions. This announcement signals a potential paradigm shift in how the FDA approaches drug approvals for conditions affecting small patient populations—a change that many experts believe is long overdue. “We’re going to be rolling out a new pathway for drugs, which…

On March 4, Christopher Syrek, the Chief of Staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), informed his senior colleagues of a DOGE-devised plan for large-scale cutbacks at the agency that provides health care and other vital services to millions of veterans. The following day, the Associated Press cited an internal memo that indicates that 80,000 jobs – roughly 15% of the VA’s workforce – are slated for…

In healthcare, what’s often hailed as groundbreaking is, in reality, a repackaging of ideas we’ve seen before.

Over the past two decades, I’ve watched healthcare’s innovation cycle become increasingly dominated by hype. We celebrate new terminology, fresh branding, and bold claims. Yet, beneath the surface, many of these “new” solutions are…

A breakthrough in the treatment of retinal detachment—a condition that can lead to permanent vision loss—was…