How fast could COVID-19 spread in Australia? And how many people could potentially be infected? We can’t of course know for sure, but we have enough data to make some rough forecasts; and being...

A nationwide study of nearly 7,500 people who are obese or severely obese has found that bariatric surgery is linked to significantly fewer heart attacks and strokes. The study, which is published in...

Life expectancy in the USA is no longer rising. This stagnation has long been largely attributed to increasing numbers of drug deaths due to the opioid crisis. But Mikko Myrskylä and colleagues have...

The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. The constant flow of news from all types of media may heighten fears about the disease. People need facts to protect...

While there are no shortage of technical approaches for hackers targeting a healthcare organization, the fact of the matter is that many attacks start with doctors, administrative workers and the other...

People often use the phrase “mind over matter” to describe situations where aches and pains in the body are overridden using the mind. A gardener comes in from gardening and is surprised to...

If we cross a road with our smartphone in view, a car horn or engine noise will startle us. In everyday life we can easily combine information from different senses and shift our attention from one sensory...

Suspected coronavirus patient is wheeled out of a Chinese airport in a see-through quarantine box while flanked by medics wearing face masks Man was loaded into the see-through pod at airport in Fuzhou, south-east...

Child evacuated from Wuhan amid Chinese coronavirus outbreak is hospitalized with a fever after being quarantined in California A child who was among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan has been hospitalized...

HPV vaccine is ‘near perfect’ as analysis shows the jab is up to 99.8% effective at protecting against cervical cancer-causing viruses An expert at King’s College London analysed eight...