I drink a lot of unsweetened sparkling. Does that have the same health benefits as drinking regular water? There’s still water, and then there’s what my 4-year-old calls “spicy water,” better known...

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...

As much as we profane cold weather here in Australia, winter still has its perks. Ordering a hot chocolate as an adult in summer might have the cafe staff raising an eyebrow at you, but in winter you can...

Dengue risk is exacerbated in highly populated areas of Brazil after extreme drought because of improvised water containers housing mosquitoes, suggests a new study in Lancet Planetary Health. The research...

U.S. health officials are warning people not to use a brand of alkaline water known as “Real Water” after several children in Nevada who drank the water were hospitalized with liver failure,...

Real Water brand alkaline water may be the cause of five cases of acute nonviral hepatitis (resulting in acute liver failure) in infants and children that occurred in November 2020 in the Southern Nevada...

Despite decades of public health campaigns, skin cancer remains a major threat to health in Australia, with more cases diagnosed each year than all other cancers combined. Skin cancer rates remain high...

2020 has been a difficult year, to put it lightly. Not only have Brits been worrying about their physical health, taking all precautions possible to limit the spread of coronavirus, but we’ve been...

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Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports, show that involving pediatric practices...