A research group, led by Dr. Pavel Majer from IOCB Prague, in collaboration with the laboratories of Barbara Slusher and Louis Garza at Johns Hopkins University, has developed a compound that could potentially treat the autoimmune disorder alopecia areata, which causes hair loss, leading to the formation of bald patches.
New Mexico has paired up with the Alzheimer’s Association in a pilot U.S. initiative aimed at raising awareness about a disease that affects several million people across the nation, including family members and friends who often provide countless hours of unpaid care.
In research inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the University of Oxford reveal new findings to understand why the human brain is able to make decisions quicker than the world’s most powerful computer in the face of a critical risk situation. The human brain has this capacity despite the fact that neurons are much slower at transmitting information than microchips, which raises numerous unknown factors in the field of neuroscience.
THREE employees at Chipata level-one hospital who stole COVID-19 kits worth over K2million at a height of the corona virus pandemic in 2022 have been jailed three years imprisonment with hard labour. The trio, who include two laboratory and biomedical technicians and a driver, were jailed alongside a volunteer at the hospital who was imprisoned […]
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More than 1.2 million medical device adverse event reports were not submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the deadline set by federal regulations, finds an analysis of recent data published by The BMJ.
Only 17 percent of adults say they want to see Medicaid funding decreased, while 42 percent think funding should increase and 40 percent think it should be kept about the same, according to results of the February 2025 KFF Health Tracking Poll.
The nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is taking steps to tighten oversight of chemicals in the U.S. food supply, a key component of his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
A study of more than 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India, suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural populations annually and is a leading yet under-recognized cause of hospitalizations for fever across India.
Researchers have long known that diet exerts a profound influence on health, including the risk of developing cancer. A new study, led by researchers at Arizona State University, explores the relationship among diet, blood sugar (specifically glucose) and cancer prevalence across a broad range of vertebrate species.
Buried in the Donald Trump administration’s recent avalanche of executive orders in the United States was a starkly revealing provision: A Department of Transportation order requiring projects to prioritize federal highway and transit funding to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average. Those with declining birth and marriage rates could face funding cuts.