The tooth fairy is a welcome guest for any child who has lost a tooth. Not only will the fairy leave a small gift under the pillow, but the child can be assured of a new tooth in a few months. The same cannot be said of adults who have lost their teeth.

A Scottish doctor is widely credited with inventing the hypodermic syringe - a crucial tool in the battle against Covid.

When it comes to Alzheimer’s versus science, science is on the losing side. Alzheimer’s is cruel in the most insidious way. The disorder creeps up in some aging brains, gradually eating away at their ability to think and reason, whittling down its grasp on memories and reality. As the world’s population ages, Alzheimer’s is rearing its ugly head at a shocking rate. And despite decades of research, we have no treatment—not to mention a cure.

We've all done it. Maybe you have a weird rash, or a cough that just won't go away, so you turn to Google to look up your symptoms.

When Dasia Taylor was a sophomore in high school, she asked for a suture kit. For a year, she perfected her stitches because she thought she wanted a career in medicine, like her idol Meredith Grey (the central character on the TV show "Grey's Anatomy").

By using nanomaterial layers to package insulin, researchers have developed a stable and effective method for administering the hormone orally without subjecting it to destruction by stomach acids, solving a long-time problem in pharmaceutical science.

A review of paracetamol for 44 common pain conditions found no strong evidence to support its use in many instances. Paracetamol is also known as acetaminophen, Panadol, Tylenol.

A patient suffering from a genetic form of childhood blindness regained and retained vision for more than a year after receiving just a single shot of an experimental RNA therapy directly into the eye, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine.

The U.S. broke its previous record for most COVID-19 vaccines administered in a single day, with 3.4 million doses reported on Friday, according to the White House.

In mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders, researchers found social deficits were mediated by microbes in the gut. By contrast, hyperactivity is controlled by genetics. Treatment with a specific microbe helped improve social behavior.

When Covid-19 struck, mRNA vaccines in particular were ready to be put to a real-world test, and they surpassed health officials’ highest expectations.

Doctors should hold off clamping the umbilical cords for premature babies to help give them the best chance to thrive in their critical first days of life, a major investigation shows.

Results of a clinical trial released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine provide evidence that treating patients with an injection of bone marrow cells may lead to a reduction in brain injury after a stroke.

The refusal by Australia. the US, UK and EU to waive intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines will cause millions of deaths in Third World and virus mutations will come back to the west.

A crucial wing of the immune system appears to be just as good at recognising all the new coronavirus variants, a study has found. In laboratory tests, T-cell responses in those vaccinated or previously infected with coronavirus were largely unaffected by each of the key variants. This included the new Brazilian variant, found in small numbers in the UK last week.

People are trying to treat and prevent COVID-19 by taking ivermectin, a medication commonly used to de-worm horses – and they are poisoning themselves in the process.

A family doctor's recommendation to follow a whole foods, plant-based diet coincided with a life-changing turnaround in the fortunes of one patient – potentially triggering complete recovery from a mysterious and painful disease.

Intravenous injection of bone marrow derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University and Japan report Feb. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Surface transmission is a very uncommon way of getting COVID. We should focus most of our attention on the airborne route, potentially saving millions of dollars on obsessive cleaning practices.

In a win for global vaccination goals, the BioNTech-Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is shown to generate a strong response with one dose and to maintain potency in standard freezers for two weeks.