Health

This one food increases the risk of cancer in several different ways.

Grantees at the San Francisco HIV clinic said they learned through federal employees that the Office of Management and Budget stepped in to kill the program.

“I didn’t want to do what the voice was telling me, but at the same time, I felt like it was going to make me do it,” she told The Post.

Research suggests cannabis suppresses REM sleep, raising questions about memory, emotion and the purpose of dreams.

Henry Grover was being treated for a blood cancer when he fell ill. He died 19 days later.

In 2025, six submissions to the state's tick identification service were determined to be lone star ticks. This year there are already 33.

JCTR participated in the Open Budgets Peer-Learning Exchange on Health Expenditure Monitoring in Nairobi, bringing together CSOs from 17 countries.

Fitness experts share five bodyweight exercises to help reduce visceral fat after age 50.

Experts have warned about the potential risks of "undernutrition" for patients using weight loss drugs. Here's their advice on what to eat.

A surprise night inspection at Magala Health Centre III in Mityana Municipality led to the arrest of the facility in-charge after leaders found no health worker on duty despite the facility’s mandate to provide 24-hour services.

A new mouse study led by UCLA Health suggests that inflammation during pregnancy can trigger autism-like changes in offspring, but those brain and behavioral effects may be rapidly, though temporarily, reversible in adulthood with a single dose of the immunos…

The wide array of sweeteners available on the market can be confusing, and not all are equally healthy.

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.

Three longtime Philadelphia police officers developed the same rare cancer, and the similarities in their cases were hard to ignore.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has crossed the grim 1,000-death threshold, marking the fastest fatal surge in recorded history of the virus.

Uganda Virus Research Institute has been designated the East African Community Regional Centre of Excellence in Virology, cementing Uganda's leadership in disease surveillance and infectious disease research as the institute marked 90 years of scientific achievement.

It is the first drug designed to improve walking ability in people with MS, an incurable autoimmune disease which affects the brain and spinal cord

What once seemed biologically impossible is now within reach—and South Korea's women may be the ones to get there first.

When military officers from nine African countries walked through a sprawling pharmaceutical complex on the outskirts of Kampala, they were not there to inspect weapons or military hardware. Instead, they came to examine something they believe could prove just as important to Africa’s security: the ability to manufacture its own medicines and vaccines. The visit […] The post Military scholars see Uganda’s drug-making

Alfred Ekongo, a driver with Kakise Bus Company, has died from injuries he sustained in a road crash in Soroti City last week. Ekongo passed away on Wednesday at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, where he had been admitted since the accident that occurred on Sunday, July 19. He lost both legs after the bus he […] The post Kakise bus driver succumbs to crash injuries appeared first on The Observer Media Ltd.

Researchers have developed a fluoride-free gel that could help rebuild damaged tooth enamel, something the body cannot naturally replace once it is lost. Inspired by the proteins that guide enamel formation in infancy, the gel fills microscopic cracks and dra…