The Department for Education has proposed changes to the UK curriculum, which will see food at GCSE level left out in the ...

Outbreaks at sea are one of the oldest problems in public health. From medieval plague quarantines to modern times, they have ...

A British man has been detained in a bar despite being under hantavirus quarantine orders in Italy. The man, who is in his ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing links left by traditional genetic studies. The technique could transform how ...

Aging is inevitable. But many of us are still looking to turn back time. So, instead of trying to reverse aging, what if we embrace it and focus on staying healthy and disease-free as we age? Maybe we ...

Medicine stands at the precipice of an exciting new era. But even as the promise of decades of medical research is being realized, the foundations of the field are coming under attack. Can these ...

The gut microbiome has been a rising star in the world of health science over the last several years, garnering interest from both researchers and the general public. This is mostly due to its ...

Scientists are trying a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and other devastating autoimmune diseases — by reprogramming patients' out-of-whack immune ...

Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD. What is hand, foot and mouth disease, and what causes it? How is it spread? What are ...

Among all high-income Western countries, the United States has shown the worst performance in reducing the probability of dying from chronic diseases, a new study finds. From 2010 to 2019, deaths due ...