A new study adds to the body of research indicating that access to legal and regulated marijuana markets served a “protective” purpose for people who vaped cannabis during a 2019 outbreak of lung injuries related to contaminated products.

The U.S. health regulator on Wednesday approved Switzerland-based Ferring Pharmaceuticals' fecal transplant-based therapy to reduce the recurrence of a bacterial infection, making it the first therapy of its kind to be cleared in the United States.

Phones and devices like the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck have turned porcelain thrones into fortresses of solitude. But there are risks to sitting too long.

Brain fog, which includes impaired attention, concentration, memory and processing speed, can be debilitating.

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

Vaccine against all strains of virus hailed as major step in protecting against potentially devastating flu pandemic

Scientists have captured and modeled a key structure in the hepatitis C virus, which will pave the way for vaccine development.

Income inequality has soared with the pandemic, providing incriminating evidence that it kills

The single-dose medicine "represents important progress" as the first-ever gene therapy for the rare disorder, the FDA said.

New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.

Bacteria that cause leprosy are shown to safely grow and regenerate the liver, in animal experiments.

The “most complicated therapy ever” tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumors

Chronic pain is widespread among those in their mid-40s in Britain, with those who experience it more likely to report pain, poor health - including COVID-19 infection - and joblessness later in life, according to a new study by researchers at UCL and Dartmouth College, US.

Heavily marketable processed foods like potato chips, cookies, ice cream and French fries meet the same criteria used for decades to demonstrate the addictive qualities of smoking tobacco, notes a new study.  “Unnaturally high doses” of refined carbohydrates and fat appears to be key to their addictive potential.

A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that caused the deaths of two of her sisters.

Donna Dickerson’s heart would sink every time she’d wake up, turn on the faucet in her mobile home and hear the pipes gurgling. Sometimes it would happen on a day when her mother, who is 86 and has dementia, had a doctor’s appointment and needed to bathe.

It is hoped the blood could revolutionise care for people who need regular donations.

The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new government data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already said the overall number of such deaths rose in 2020 and 2021.

Forget about how your bum muscles look; what about what they do? In fact, having big, strong glutes is crucial to good overall musculoskeletal health.