Category: 4. Health

A 2025 report on Inside Higher Ed described the incoming class of 2029 as being highly diverse and including many students with significant mental health concerns. As indicated in a 2023 study in the journal of Educational Psychology & Counseling, national increases of mental health concerns have resulted in many colleges and universities emphasizing the importance of student well-being. However, as the study indicates, there’s little…

Of all the cuts the Trump Administration has made, its attacks on medical research are some of the most baffling, threatening the ability for American scientists to keep developing new medicines to treat everything from cancer to Parkinson’s.

For billionaire Sean Parker, who told Forbes he’s been heavily involved in lobbying to boost federal spending on medical research, that means philanthropies and the private sector will have to step in…

Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins, the workhorses of living cells.

Scientists have developed two new AI tools to decipher proteins often missed by existing detection methods, researchers report March 31 in Nature Machine Intelligence. Uncovering these unknown proteins in all types of biological samples could be key to creating better cancer treatments, improving doctors’…

The new findings, published in JAMA, indicate that while the rate of…

“A Healing Tide” was the name of The War and Treaty’s 2018 debut album. But…

When you get decaffeinated coffee, you kind of want it to be, you know, without caffeine. But apparently this wasn’t the case with certain batches of Our Family Traverse City Ground Coffee, according to a report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. They were mislabeled as decaffeinated when they actually had caffeine. As a…

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) refers to an unexpected death of a person, believed to be caused by a heart-related issue. It occurs within one hour of the onset of symptoms in witnessed cases or within 24 hours of the person being last seen alive in unwitnessed cases.

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A Chinese woman is the third person in the world living with a gene-edited pig kidney, and nearly three weeks after surgery, doctors say she’s doing well.

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New research presented at the EHRA 2025, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology, shows that the presence of atrial fibrillation (AFib) increases the risk of future dementia by 21% in patients diagnosed with AFib under 70 and the risk of early-onset dementia (diagnosed before age 65 years) by 36%.

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Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that after the human brain encodes specific events or information, it can periodically reactivate them to facilitate their retention, via a process known as memory consolidation. The reactivation of memories has been…