Treatment adherence remains a concern in psychiatry.

State health officials in New York are warning of expanding "community spread" of the polio virus after it was found in wastewater samples from another upstate county.

The Biden administration said Friday there's enough monkeypox vaccine available now but health officials say the shots aren’t getting to some of the people who need the protection the most.

US national data show that 13% of visits for acute gastroenteritis resulted in a prescription for an antibiotic.

Disrupting a virus’s genome packaging can halt replication and jumpstart a natural immune response against subsequent exposures, a Stanford Medicine study finds.

Everything to know about the autoimmune disease, which affects the brain and spinal cord.

New research shows that risk climbs by half with every extra year of life in a dog's golden years.

Unhealthy nutritional habits and the current western lifestyle have led to an increased incidence of acute diverticulitis, which mainly affects older patients. However, the disease course in younger patients might be more severe. It has a continued increase i…

Schools, daycares and other settings serving children and adolescents do not need to take extra precautions against monkeypox, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

About 50% of all mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had elevated levels of depressive symptoms over 18 months, while rates were much lower (6% to 13.6%) for mothers with neurotypical children in the same period, UCSF researchers report in…

Liver transplant surgery is a vital and life-saving procedure, but it also is associated with a high rate of postoperative complications.

Reclaimed water has been widely used in urban area. However, residual pathogens in the recycled water have been frequently reported, and are identified as the main source of health risks for wastewater reuse.

Announcing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Traditional protein chips are based on solid chips and cannot enable drug and target screening in a label-free manner.

A new immunological treatment against hepatitis B and D viruses, both of which can cause liver cancer, shows promising results in animal models.

Using artificial intelligence to facilitate cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain can provide outcomes that are as good as typical interventions while requiring less time with a therapist, according to researchers.Evidence-based cognitive behavioral t…

Every day we inhale thousands of germs fungi They are potentially pathogenic, but our immune...

The health unit said this is the first lab-confirmed evidence of West Nile in Simcoe Muskoka this year.

There's an epidemic in Western countries, and one few people are aware of. It's an epidemic of visceral fat, a deep kind of fat that packs around vital organs, like the liver, and is linked with health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pre…

Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are train…

Les Etacs, off Alderney, is a popular breeding ground for gannets with about 5,500 pairs in 2021.

Widely used for fine lines and wrinkles, now it's possible to treat lazy eyes, migraines, and even jaw pain associated with TMJ using Botox.

A century ago, scientific theory labeled airborne transmission a form of superstition, and a belief held to this day

Myopia is the most common refractive error among children. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected children's health in many ways. Policy changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as home quarantine and online schooling, have been propo…

Most doses of Bavarian Nordic's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/BAVA.CO" target="_blank">(BAVA.CO)</a> two-dose Jynneos monkeypox vaccine administered in the United States have been first doses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Direc…