Australian researchers have reported a major breakthrough in the relief of deadly peanut allergy with the discovery of a long-lasting treatment they say offers hope that a cure will soon be possible. In clinical trials conducted by scientists at Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, children with peanut allergies were given a probiotic along with small doses of a peanut protein over an 18-month period.

Researchers hope the data will guide patients to effective treatments.

Australian researchers hail breakthrough after ‘life-changing’ tolerance persists for up to four years.

A Vietnam veteran with dementia has received a certificate of appreciation and regiment badges and coins to reassure him his fighting days are now over. Eighty-four-year-old Lawrence Silk, who completed three tours of duty during the Vietnam War, now has dementia and insists he needs to return to the country to carry on fighting.

Campaigning vegans will change nothing if they embrace bad science and conspiracy theories when making the health case for their diet, says Anthony Warner

One in 12 doctors received payments, totaling a whopping $46 million from pharmaceutical companies to push opioid painkillers, in just over two years.

Carrying extra weight could raise your risk of heart attack by more than a quarter, even if you are otherwise healthy. Researchers have found that being overweight or obese increases a person’s risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by up to 28 per cent compared to those with a healthy bodyweight, even if they have healthy blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

The situation is entirely too catastrophic in magnitude for humans to control it. Fishing industries in the region have been toppled by contamination reports ran on fish. And now there are even studies providing evidence that fish off the coast of the United States and Canada are adversely affected. A scientist named Ken Buesseler claims that the radiation levels currently found in fish may not be at levels toxic to humans. But many scientists say there isn’t such a thing as “safe levels” of radioactive material consumption.

A study from the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. has shown that under appropriate operating conditions, e-cigs are up to 99% less carcinogenic that traditional cigs.

The researchers don’t yet know the cause, but it likely involved fitness and diet.

A breakthrough could lead to easier, faster and cheaper vaccines.

Striking at a myth with facts may only shore it up, a new study suggests. Researchers found that three main intervention strategies for combating anti-vaccine lies and falsehoods were ineffective at changing minds. But perhaps more concerning, they found that over-time exposure to the interventions strengthened participants’ belief in those lies and falsehoods, researchers recently reported in PLOS One. The researchers speculate that the mere repetition of a myth during the process of debunking may be enough to entrench the myth in a believer’s mind.

The long read: More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?

HHS is aggressively working with industry to introduce organizational cybersecurity resiliency to the Health Care Industry and move organizations away from self-regulating, checkbox-driven security standards which provide little more than security theatre.  The Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (HCCIC), HHS’s new cybersecurity intelligence-sharing clearing-house, is a major step toward this goal and acts as a sector-specific cybersecurity coordination hub between the HPH sector and the NCCIC.

Our dual cancer diagnoses plunged me and my wife into depression. Could LSD, the drug of my youth, help now?

The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it

In honor of this milestone I said that I would get back on my BMX bike and ride at my skate park for the first time since my accident 10 months ago when I broke my neck, smashed my skull, had three brain bleeds, and was expected to be paralyzed from the neck down! I have been so lucky throughout my recovery but this video proves that there is light at the end of every dark tunnel you just need the will and determination to find it.

The sperm count of men in Western countries has been declining precipitously with no signs of “leveling off,” according to new research, bolstering a school of thought that male health in the modern world is at risk, possibly threatening fertility. By examining thousands of studies and conducting a meta-analysis of 185 — the most comprehensive effort to date — an international team of researchers ultimately looked at semen samples from 42,935 men from 50 countries from 1973 to 2011.

Honey and other bee products have a life-giving, almost mystical quality according to alternative medicine practitioners and "back to nature" enthusiasts. In truth, they don't. Bee colonies aren't tiny pharmaceutical companies. Sure, honey tastes good, but from a chemistry standpoint, honey isn't all that different from high-fructose corn syrup.

A simple vitamin supplement could have the potential to prevent miscarriages and birth defects, according to a 12-year study by scientists in Australia.

New research shows that knee osteoarthritis, a painful and disabling condition in which cartilage wears down and bones rub against each other, has doubled in the last 50 years. This surprising spike raises serious questions about what causes the disease, and suggests it may be more preventable than previously thought.

People working in low paying, unstable jobs show more signs of chronic stress than their counterparts who remain unemployed. For the unemployed, finding a job can be a path to improved mental health, but only if it’s a good one, a recent study finds. Researchers tracked 116 British adults who were unemployed in 2009-2010. Those who found good jobs enjoyed improved mental health outcomes, while those who found jobs that were stressful, poorly paid, or unstable saw no improvement.

Alcoholism has risen 49% in the US in just 11 years, national surveys find.

There's growing evidence poo transplants can work for some conditions, including a type of diarrhoea. But they're not for everyone.

There are currently no licensed vaccines or therapeutics available to combat Zika, although a $100m clinical trial is underway.

An anti-aging product that seems to be respected by the medical community, raising NAD+ levels

Burgers made from plants instead of animals are capturing more space on U.S. barbecue grills this summer, fueling sales in the niche products that could reach $5 billion globally by 2020. Plant-based meat foods are now available that include beet juice for color and canola oil to simulate fat. These changes are not only pulling in consumers but also one of the powerhouses in traditional meat production, Tyson Foods Inc.

New research shows that loneliness, social isolation, and living alone pose a greater heath threat to Americans than being overweight.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reversed memory loss in mice by interfering with an enzyme forming the blockade, which is linked with Alzheimer's disease. In their research, the results of which are published in the study The Transcription Factor Sp3 Cooperates with HDAC2 to Regulate Synaptic Function and Plasticity in Neurons, the team experimented on mice to test theories about what causes Alzheimer's.

In a striking advance that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers have created gene-edited piglets cleansed of viruses that might cause disease in humans. The experiments, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, may make it possible one day to transplant livers, hearts and other organs from pigs into humans, a hope that experts had all but given up.

He delivers the mail, but a Texas postman is setting records for another kind of delivery he makes. It's a delivery that is saving lives. Every two weeks for the past 34 years, Marcos Perez spends two hours donating blood at the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center. Perez donates platelets, a blood component that allows him to donate more often than if he were donating whole blood or double red blood cells (also known as power red), which people can also donate at STBTC.

A growing number of mental-health experts are taking a proactive approach to suicide prevention—and they have a bold goal. 

Nearly a dozen beaches across Hong Kong were closed to the public on Sunday morning after congealed palm oil washed up on them, having spilled into the sea when two boats crashed in mainland waters. Local residents noticed clumps of oil on the sand, and beach workers took precautions to contain the mess. A similar substance was also spotted in Victoria Harbour.

The new study on birth defects and vitamin B3 has important implications, but researchers didn't actually give any of this vitamin to humans.

Stanford University scientists have found an array of proteins in the blood whose levels correlate closely with the severity of symptoms of the mysterious illness that's increasingly known as ME/CFS.