Pharmacist explains how paracetamol and ibuprofen work Recently, young group of teenagers in Southampton, aged between 15 to 17, tried to overdose on paracetamol to see who could be hospitalised for the...

Reviewers’ Notes A new study of the PhyloBone project of the University of Turku, Finland, identifies hundreds of non-collagenous proteins in the bone matrix that may play regulatory...

“Should I be taking a probiotic?” is a question that Maggie Stanislawski, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Colorado Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), gets asked often. The...

Intravenous magnesium sulfate before preterm birth at 30 to 34 weeks of gestation does not improve child survival free of cerebral palsy, according to a study published in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal...

Gut microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity arises after three months of age and persists through childhood, according to a new study published August 17 in the open access journal PLOS...

Researchers report that associative learning impairments caused by obesity can be restored with liraglutide, an anti-obesity medication. After just one dose, researchers said study participants with...

In most U.S. emergency departments (ED), patients are admitted in an order based on both the urgency of their condition and when they arrived. But in a new study, Yale researchers found that nearly 29%...

An obscure class of molecules, part of the vast system that helps the human body distinguish “self” from “non-self,” may also hold the key to stopping SARS-CoV-2 from commandeering...

Since 1999, there have been 386 school shootings. Forty-six in 2022 alone. It’s a devastating and sobering number — one most of us can’t wrap our heads around as we prepare to send our...

Vaping: Dr Sara outlines the main side effects It has been known for decades that smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes is seriously harmful to our bodies. So when e-cigarettes were launched it was hoped...