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New research has found for the first time that extreme weight fluctuations in obese individuals with cardiovascular disease significantly increases the risk of death—with weight loss as well as weight gain raising risk levels.

Systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, is a complex autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, often affecting the skin, joints, kidneys and nervous system. Lupus symptoms include inflammation, skin rashes, joint pain and organ damage. To date, treatments have focused on immunosuppressive drugs, which slow down the progression of the disease but often come with considerable side effects.

Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, infectious disease experts continue to draw on its lessons for future disasters.

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and effective for use in young children beginning at 9 months of age.

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have identified a genetic link to smoking in pregnancy. Results from the U.K.-wide study also showed that males experience more long-lasting effects when the mother smokes while pregnant (maternal smoking) than females—including dying younger if they go on to smoke themselves.

Knee or hip replacement is a major surgery, and many people must lean hard on their spouses to care for them during weeks to months of recuperation.

A Reverend is under investigation after allegedly stealing more than K700,000 from a named school in Lusaka. The stolen funds were intended for payment to the Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) for General Certificate of Education (GCE) candidates. The suspect, Elifas Banda, who also serves as a guidance teacher at the school, reportedly confessed to […]

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Love pickleball, but facing a knee or hip replacement? Odds are you’ll return to the court in no time, a new study suggests.

Public health officials have confirmed the first case of measles in a Los Angeles County resident this year—the second infected person known to have passed through Los Angeles International Airport in 2025.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and a significant health issue, with millions of non-melanoma cases and tens of thousands of melanomas diagnosed annually. Furthermore, treating skin cancer costs the U.S. approximately $8.9 billion annually.