European Respiratory Society warns against vaping for smoking cessation. Researchers studying a patient with a rare lung disease called hard-metal pneumoconiosis say the disease was…
Superbugs including E.coli and Staphylococci have been found in more than nine out of ten in-use beauty products Contaminated products used on the face and…
Ohio University research shows ‘bad cholesterol’ is only as unhealthy as its composition. Research demonstrates that current guidelines for diagnosing risk are ‘dangerously misleading.’ New…
Trigger likely to be immune response to chemical in e-cigarette fluid, say doctors. The fluid in e-cigarettes may cause a potentially life-threatening lung inflammation in…
Rutgers innovation may help guide treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s diseases. A Rutgers-led team has created better biosensor technology that may help lead to safe stem…
Monash University researchers have gained insights into how nanoparticles could develop a biosensor to prevent deadly diseases contracted on medical equipment, such as catheters. Candida…
Infectious diseases spilling over from wildlife are not new — as of 2008, approximately 70 percent of all known emerging diseases are thought to have…
A school-based human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization program in British Columbia, Canada, is dramatically reducing rates of cervical pre-cancer in B.C. women, according to a new…
DEET may chemically ‘cloak’ humans from malaria-carrying mosquitos, rather than repel them. Since its invention during the Second World War for soldiers stationed in countries…
There is no effective vaccine currently available to prevent Lyme disease in humans. Experts from academia, government, and industry convened at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s…
Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a method for statistically predicting the impacts of climate change on outbreaks of tularemia in humans. The study has…
Viruses are non-living creatures, consisting of genetic material encased in a protein coat. Once the virus infects a living organism, it can replicate itself and…
Experts are calling for a public health campaign aimed at promoting a ‘brain-healthy lifestyle’ to reduce the risk of developing neurodegenerative brain diseases, such as…
People who received omega-3 fish oil supplements in randomized clinical trials had lower risks of heart attack and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) events compared with…
In response to a new Mayo Clinic study which found that lung damage from vaping resembles chemical burns, Geraldine R. Britton, director of the Binghamton…
Research into the pathology of vaping-associated lung injury is in its early stages, but a Mayo Clinic study published in The New England Journal of…
A new study is the first to report evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin may lessen the adverse effects of air pollution exposure…
A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure — for which no cure currently exists — may result from pioneering research…
