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The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called the winter of 2024-2025 a “high severity” season with the highest hospitalization rate in 15 years.

My mother has always had one unbreakable rule: no outdoor shoes inside the house. It didn’t matter who you were—family member, neighbor, or guest—you had to take them off before crossing the threshold. As a child, I thought it was just one of her many quirks. But as I’ve grown older (and wiser), I’ve come to understand that this wasn’t about obsessive tidiness. It was about health, safety and keeping our living space hygienic.

Researchers at McMaster University have revealed a novel link between body fat (adipose tissue) and anxiety, shedding light on the intricate relationship between metabolism and mental health.

In 2021, roughly 6% of the world’s population, or 529 million people, were living with diabetes, mostly type 2 diabetes (T2D). In the same year, 1.6 million deaths were attributed to this disease.

A baby girl named Amy Isabel has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who has had a womb transplant. Amy is one of around 65 children worldwide born as a result of pioneering research into the procedure.

A team of researchers has successfully created more effective immune cells that can fight cancer without damaging healthy tissue.

Researchers have developed a cutting-edge chip technology capable of precisely mimicking the interactions between cancer cells and blood vessels, akin to the human body environment. This innovation is being hailed as a significant breakthrough in the quest for patient-specific cancer drug development.

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways, the ventral visual stream, is responsible for recognizing objects, and that it might have been optimized by evolution to do just that.

Nearly half of patients diagnosed with cancer in 2023 had a history of smoking, and 15% were smokers at the time of their diagnosis, according to new Yale Cancer Center-led research published in JAMA Oncology.

Snacking and grazing throughout the day, as opposed to structured mealtimes, could limit children’s growth, finds new research by Cardiff University.