Category: HEALTH

For the first time, US doctors have performed successful brain surgery on an unborn baby to prevent heart failure and brain injury after birth.

People with long Covid accompanied by neurological symptoms such as brain fog have less activity in certain brain regions normally used for memory tasks, revealed a study.

Long-term air pollution has now been found to be associated with an increased risk of arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat, researchers report.

Vitamin D levels may be key in determining the human body's response to anti-cancer immunotherapy, especially among people with advanced skin cancer, according to a study.

Researchers have identified how healthy neurons metabolize glucose, an advance that may have implications for understanding neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Babies' gut consists of more than 200 previously unknown viral families within their intestines, which likely plays an important role in protecting children from chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes later on in life, according to scientists.

Stem cells which get stuck as people age may be the reason why our hairs turn grey, US scientists have found.

Exposure to ultrafine particles during pregnancy enhances the risk of respiratory viral infection, shows a study.

The findings, detailed in the journal Nature Communications, could pave the way for a highly effective, reversible, and non-hormonal male contraceptive for humans and animals.

If you are facing breathless episodes after Covid during the day, also check if you are not able to sleep properly as researchers have now discovered that the disturbed sleep patterns in patients hospitalized with Covid were likely to be a driver of breathlessness.

Researchers have found that babies born to mothers who had mild or asymptomatic Covid during pregnancy are normal.

In a breakthrough, scientists in Spain have developed cheap and easy mobile testing kits that can detect cancer within three hours.

China has recorded the first death due to the avian influenza A(H3N8) virus, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.

Following time-restricted fasting -- a type of intermittent fasting -- diet plan may lead to fertility problems in both males and females, according to new research conducted on fish.

Long Covid patients are likely to suffer from persistent psychiatric symptoms, like anxiety and depression, according to a study.

Parkinson's disease, commonly associated with elderly people, can also affect the young majorly due to environmental factors, doctors said on Tuesday, observed as World Parkinson's Day to raise awareness about the disease.

Long Covid patients are more likely to suffer from sleep disturbances, according to a study.

China has urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) not to be subject to or willing to descend to become "a tool of politicization" of certain countries, and "return to science and fairness".

Health authorities reported the nation's first possible case of community transmission of Monkeypox on Saturday, bringing the total number of infections to six.