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Development of a “smart bandage” not only can deliver medication to wounds, but also monitor the progress of healing and even create off a low-level electrical field to promote tissue repair, researchers said Friday....Read More

Researchers found in a new study that males born to mothers with COVID-19 infections during pregnancy were more likely to receive a neurodevelopment diagnosis such as autism spectrum disorder in the first year....Read More

The world’s cholera situation is deteriorating, the World Health Organization confirmed in an update Wednesday, with two dozen countries now reporting cases....Read More

The reason why we love chocolate bars, crisps and french fries so much has less to do with a lack of willpower and more with our brain actually learning to prefer such high-fat, sugary foods, according...

Supervised exercise like walking, stationary cycling and even dancing about three times per week was more effective than drugs in helping people with symptoms of one of the most common types of heart failure....Read More

The growing emerging fungus Candida auris, which can cause severe infections and death in compromised patients, has now become an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat, according to a report by the CDC....Read More

The percentage of mothers who died while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of their pregnancy grew at an alarming rate in 2021, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

A new analysis of drugs under development shows that too few antibiotics needed to handle potentially dangerous pathogens are being developed....Read More

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will discuss whether to recommend Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid for full approval during a meeting Thursday....Read More

Studies that looked at more than 700,000 women in the United States and Europe found those who dedicated themselves to eating a Mediterranean diet cut their risk of cardiovascular disease and death by nearly 25%....Read More