Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

By activating one enzyme present in worm cells, scientists could extend a worm's life. The scientists also found that same enzyme in human cells.

Changes in blood platelets triggered by COVID-19 could contribute to the onset of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications in some patients who have the disease, according to University of Utah Health scientists.

Researchers from MIT have developed a new way to keep shared spaces free of the coronavirus and other pathogens: a UVC light-equipped robot.

Just a few minutes of gazing into a small red light each day may help stave off eyesight decline as we age, a new study finds. If the results are replicated in future studies, the work could have relevance for a spectrum of aging-related conditions.

The British are far fatter than any other nation in Europe bar the Maltese so there needs to be a debate about how to tackle soaring rates of obesity which cost the country dearly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. Johnson, who said at the start of the year that he needed to lose weight, was hospitalised in April with coronavirus and treated in intensive care with oxygen. He later said doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) had saved his life.

The new strain, scientists say, is carried by pigs but can infect humans and requires close monitoring.

Existing treatments focus on easing symptoms and improving quality of life.

Sitting for hours on end could heighten someone's risk of later dying from cancer, according to a sobering new study of the relationship between inactivity and cancer mortality. The study was epidemiological, providing a snapshot of people's lives, so it cannot prove cause and effect. But the findings suggest that extremely sedentary people can be as much as 80 per cent more likely to die of cancer than those who sit the least.

Dr. Gopi Patel recalls how powerless she felt when New York's Mount Sinai Hospital overflowed with COVID-19 patients in March.

Paranoid hallucinations plague many coronavirus patients in I.C.U.s, an experience that can slow recovery and increase risk of depression and cognitive issues.

The first of a new family of drugs to stop cancer cells from repairing themselves has been trialled.

A novel gene-editing experiment seems to have permanently reduced LDL and triglyceride levels in monkeys.

Lockdowns haven’t just curbed coronavirus transmission — they’ve also helped people get more sleep. Two studies, both published June 10 in Current Biology, report that people began sleeping more and more regularly every night after countries imposed stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that sleep may not have been of the best quality, one of those studies finds.

Welcome to the weird world of medical billing.

By examining historical precedents, Melissa Kearney and Phillip B. Levine predict a significant drop in pregnancies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic's economic and public health fallout.

Researchers from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) have developed a new molecule called LIH383. In a press release, they claim that this new novel molecule binds to and blocks specific opioid peptides in the brain, thus regulating the levels of opioid peptides in the entire central nervous system.

Doctors in Vietnam this week say that they’ve made a mysterious and—if accurate—alarming discovery: A local resident has been infested with the nearly extinct Guinea worm. But Guinea worm experts are still trying to confirm whether this case is the genuine article, and if so, how the worm managed to reach a country thousands of miles away from its only known remaining refuge in parts of Africa.

So far, 20 people who came in close contact with him tested positive, making the area a hotspot.

Older people more likely to hoard toilet paper; Americans hoarded more than Europeans.