Health

Researchers have come up with a new innovative method in the elimination of cancer cells. When scientists shine near-infrared light on aminocyanine molecules, they begin vibrating together. This synchronized vibration is potent enough to rupture the outer walls of...

Greek grandmothers, or "yiayias," in their accumulated wisdom and vast experience, have been known to use homemade remedies for millennia.

Thirty years ago, Brazilian scientists started looking into an interesting outcome of getting bitten by a banana spider: the venom caused people to experience priapism, which is a painful and long-lasting erection. Inspired by the spider's venom, these scientists worked...

Eötvös Loránd University scientists Dr. Ádám Sturm and Dr. Tibor Vellai have made a new breakthrough in figuring out why we age. Their research focused on something called "transposable elements" (TEs) in our DNA. Think of TEs as movable parts...

A woman had been dealing with belly pain for ten days before showing up to the emergency room in France. The doctors suspected something unusual after examining her. As it turned out, she was in the second part of...

Greek grandmothers, or "yiayias," in their accumulated wisdom and vast experience, have been known to use homemade remedies for millennia.

If you usually try to hold back a sneeze, this new medical case study might make you reconsider. In a rare incident, a man accidentally caused a tear in his windpipe while trying to hold back a sneeze. This...

A landmark study has shown that severe asthma can be controlled using biologic therapies, without the addition of regular high-dose inhaled steroids which can have significant side effects. The findings from the multinational SHAMAL study, published in The Lancet, demonstrated...

Police in Greece have launched a manhunt for hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of some Athens short-term rental flats by inventing a bedbug crisis. The Health Ministry on Tuesday said posters stuck up outside flat buildings in...

Scientists have created tiny living robots, called Anthrobots, from human cells that can move across a surface and encourage the growth of neurons. The discovery is a starting point for the researchers’ vision to use Anthrobots as new therapeutic tools...

In a recent study conducted by the University of Plymouth, it has been revealed that a common disinfectant, bleach, often used in hospitals to cleanse medical attire and surfaces, is ineffective against a widespread superbug. Unaffected spores by bleach The research...

The world's first treatment using CRISPR therapy, a gene-editing technology, got the green light on November 16, 2023. Casgevy, also called Exa-cel, got the approval from the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) less than a week ago....

The gap in the life expectancy of men and women has been widening in the US in the last decade new research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows. According to the researchers,...

A man who was sick and in critical condition due to vaping and pneumonia was rescued by the use of breast implants to replace his damaged lungs. The man is Davey Bauer, a 34-year-old landscaper from St. Louis, Missouri...

In a new medical milestone, doctors successfully transplanted an entire eye at New York University Langone Health . The recipient, Aaron James, a 46-year-old military veteran, had experienced a serious electrical accident at work, resulting in extensive injuries to the left...