Health

Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are developing a light-activated drug delivery system designed to release cancer medication only at tumors. The technology aims to reduce damage to healthy tissue and lessen the lifelong side effects.

Why Do Psychiatric Disorders Persist in Humans?: Genetics suggest they may be linked to certain forms of intelligence

A groundbreaking University of Queensland discovery promises to turn your next walk into a powerful “HIIT routine for fat loss.” The approach is so easy and so effective, it even helped a group of weak and weight-loss-resistant seniors get lean and strong at …

Chronic poverty over decades was linked to memory loss, slower processing speed and brain shrinkage, with strongest effects among men and APOE-ε4 carriers.

This video shows a Golden Retriever moving around with a frisbee around his snout, seemingly unaware of how the game is actually played.

Tornyol's 40-gram mosquito-hunting drone uses 380 microphones to detect and intercept insects mid-air - no chemicals, priced at $1,100.

Imagine a snack that not only physically melts in your mouth with every bite, but whose calories seem to disappear just as quickly. Magic, right?

Free-To-Enter Wellcome Photography Contest Offers $70,000 in Prizes As the Wellcome Photography Prize celebrates its 30th year, it continues its mission of highlighting photography and scientific imagery that captures the influence of health and science on ou…

Clancy received more than 30 prescriptions in the months before she killed her children.

"You have to keep moving." It is a simple idea that has been repeated by doctors, physiotherapists and fitness experts for decades. Even the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is often credited with saying, "Walking is man's best medicine." While the exact w…

Establish Laboratories in Schools to Detect Malaria – Tayebwa ChimpReports

Vitamin D helps build strong bones, lower dementia and osteoporosis risk, and more. Here's how to get enough of the vitamin and what happens if you consume t...

We've explored the Moon in finer detail than 71 percent of Earth's ocean floor, a gap that represents not technological limits but a profound mismatch in how we allocate resources and attention.

30-40% of Dementia caregivers face depression, and 1 in 3 have declining health as well.

A machine learning system just solved a structural biology puzzle that consumed entire careers—and made the answer free to everyone.

People around the world are living longer than ever before but spending more of those additional years in poor health, according to a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet Public Health.

A CSCS certified trainer shares 5 daily exercises that may help reverse muscle loss faster than weight training after 60.

The Ebola virus is continuing its spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cases have now topped 3.200 while deaths are at 1,405. The outbreak has now spread across 48 health zones in five provinces.

Scientists calculated the lifespan of 204 countries and what they found was surprisingly consistent

Vegetarian and vegan diets are not linked to more symptoms overall, but the reasons for dietary restriction may still deserve attention.

This Review surveys the current landscape of genomic artificial intelligence through the lens of sequence-to-function models, examining how architectural choices, training data, prediction tasks, model interpretation and evaluation strategies can shape their …

An estimated 21.5 million additional adults in the United States may now be eligible for statins under updated cholesterol treatment guidelines, according to a new study.