MEDICINE & HEALTHPerhaps one of the most alarming findings in the recently-concluded European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) is that raw dog food contains significant amounts of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, making them a public health risk to Europe and the rest of the world.
Medical scientists are able to develop breath-based COVID-19 testers that are much convenient compared to swab-testing. But is the new testing method accurate?
In this digital era, people tend to spend more time typing on a keyboard than handwriting with pen or pencil and paper. However, a new study found that the latter-mentioned still provides anything useful.
New research recently demonstrated the possible efficacy of an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine, one of the many vaccines in development designed to be given through a nasal spray.
An unpublished COVID-19 case recently showed a 90-year-old unvaccinated woman after contracting the virus this spring in Europe was found to have been infected with two variants at the same time.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marital satisfaction is directly related to health and length of life. Men who perceive their marriage is a failure are at risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and more likely to die early.
From their development to now that they're being deployed worldwide, COVID-19 vaccines still have to put up against smear campaigns and unsupported claims - the latest being that Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines contain graphene oxide.
Elon Musk's Neuralink has long been touted as a neurological advancement. However, the research for brain-computer interfaces has long started in the 1970s. Today, Musk's Neuralink faces a new competitor, Inbrain Neuroelectronics that says it can outperform Neuralink.
At 11 years old, Laurent Simons became the second youngest college graduate with a degree in physics. He said that his goal is immortality by replacing body parts with mechanical parts.
Researchers found that using smartphones for at least 17 minutes a day for over ten years could cause a 60% increase in the risk of developing cancer and twice the risk of developing a brain tumor.
Researchers from Rutgers University have just developed a microchip that uses nanosensors to measure, in real-time, the stress hormone levels using a single drop of blood.
New estimates from researchers recently showed that COVID-19 vaccines were able to save hundreds of thousands of lives and preempted over a million hospital admissions in the United States.
A new study finding recently offered the potential of developing drugs for the activation of a pathway to improve the efficacy of vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines.
People who have diabetes can have a weaker immune system as compared to others because of high blood sugar levels. Consequently, the diabetes care level they need to care for is higher.