Health

As spring breakers this season continue to head south into warmer territory, mosquitoes are posing a health risk that calls for extra attention. Global cases of dengue fever are on the rise, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — and it’s warning of an uptick in U.S. …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When a person dies, clinicians often look at the cause of death to determine whether it could have been avoided, either by medical prevention such as vaccines or by treatments like antibiotics. These types of deaths are known as avoidable mortalities, and in most high-income …

[ Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which infect the digestive system. Credit: Ronald Taylor, Tom Kirn, Louisa Howard/Wikipedia South Sudan is grappling with its worst cholera outbreak in two decades, the United Nations warned Monday, saying almost 700 deaths were reported in a six-month period. The deeply …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A comprehensive study from Karolinska Institutet shows that people with fatty liver disease have almost twice the mortality rate of the general population. They have an increased risk of dying from both liver diseases and common diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, according to …

[ Richard Corsi demonstrates the airflow of a low-cost, DIY air cleaner that can remove indoor pollutants such as smoke particles and respiratory particles. It may also reduce the spread of airborne viruses. Credit: Molly Bechtel When wildfires threaten people’s communities, human health is impacted far beyond the inferno. Residual …

Alison Holt Social affairs editor BBC Phil Brown was able to get an ultrasound scan quickly and easily in a Barnsley shopping centre “That was really quick – straight in, straight out,” says Phil Brown as he leaves a smart glass building in a shopping centre in Barnsley. He has …

Move over, Batman — there’s a new caped crusader in town, and she’s got four legs, floppy ears and a heart of gold. William Bottger, 66, an Army National Guard veteran from Bellevue, Ohio, found an unlikely hero in his beagle, Roxie, who has fur markings in the shape of …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children under 15 accounted for 4.3% of new and relapsed cases of tuberculosis in the WHO’s European region in 2023, 10% more than in the previous 12 months, a report said on Monday. More than 172,000 people overall were reported to have new and relapsed …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Excess weight in midlife is a known risk factor for kidney cancer, but new research indicates that weight patterns throughout life may also affect an individual’s likelihood of developing this malignancy. The findings are published online in Cancer. To assess weight patterns and their associations …

[ Micrograph showing inflammation of the large bowel in a case of inflammatory bowel disease. Colonic biopsy. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Almost half of people who died with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) died prematurely, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that used machine learning models …

Michael Buchanan Social Affairs Correspondent BBC By the entrance to Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness sits a sculpture of a moon with 11 stars. It is a memorial to the mother and babies who died unnecessarily due to poor care at the hospital between 2004 and 2013. Inscribed underneath is …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period—a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. A new study published in Science on Thursday challenges assumptions about infant memory, showing that young minds do indeed form memories. …

[ The rates of decline in ever smoking and smoking regularly slowed significantly from 2010 onwards, coinciding with the emergence of vaping in New Zealand. Credit: Sam Egger, Becky Freeman, Judith McCool and Lucy Hardie, CC BY-SA. E-cigarette companies, including giants such as British American Tobacco, have actively lobbied governments …

The Tennessee Department of Health (TDOH) has confirmed the first case of measles in the state, as an uptick across the country has recently been reported by health authorities.  “The individual became infected with measles in early March and is recovering at home,” according to a statement from the government …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The largest analysis to examine the best way to lower levels of “bad” cholesterol in patients with blocked arteries shows that they should immediately be given a combination of a statin and another drug called ezetimibe, rather than statins alone. This could prevent thousands of …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Grief can hit us in powerful and unanticipated ways. You might expect to grieve a person, a pet or even a former version of yourself—but many people are surprised by the depth of sad yearning they can feel after selling the childhood home. In fact, …

[ For individuals with type 1 diabetes, low-glucose alerts improve the time below range for drivers and reduce the incidence of low glucose while driving, according to a study published in the April issue of Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. Ryutaro Maeda, from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in …

[ Marianne de Reynier Nevsky, the cultural mediation manager in Neuchatel, left, and town council member Julie Courcier Delafontaine chat about a new “museum prescription” program outside the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchatel in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jamey Keaton The world’s woes got you down? Feeling …

[ Model of hippocampal state-space composition. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01908-3 The hippocampal formation is a group of brain regions, including the hippocampus and some other structures closely connected to it. This set of brain regions is known to support various important brain functions, including the consolidation of memories, …