FILE PHOTO: People line up to buy as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Mexico City, Mexico July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Edgard GarridoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico reported 9,452...

People who get type 2 diabetes need to gain control of their blood-sugar levels—fast. The years immediately after diagnosis are strikingly critical in terms of their future risk for heart attacks and...

Cancer death rates continue to decline, with decreases in melanoma and lung cancer death rates leading that trend, according to a new report. The report, published by the Journal of the National Cancer...

New research from France adds to evidence that widely used COVID-19 vaccines still offer strong protection against a coronavirus mutant that is spreading rapidly around the world and now is the most prevalent...

Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by ingestion of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. In November 2017, a cholera epidemic occurred in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where no outbreak...

Might external stimuli—audiovisual and haptic—be used to train the brain to improved sleep patterns to treat insomnia? That’s the question a research team from India hopes to answer in work...

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to reorganize into a new entity that helps combat the U.S. opioid epidemic got a big boost as 15 states that had previously opposed the new business model now...

In March of 2020, thousands of scientists around the world united to answer a pressing and complex question: what genetic factors influence why some COVID-19 patients develop severe, life-threatening...

A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that the type of one-on-one treatment plans delivered to toddlers, aged 12-30...

Thought LeadersProfessor Emmanuel StamatakisProfessor, Physical Activity and Population HealthUniversity of Sydney In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis about the health...