Health and Medicine

Anti-vaxxers still exist, amazingly....

People in New Zealand are being warned against eating a lichen that grows on roads, sidewalks, and r...

We've discovered a new organ in the body made up of a mesh of cell protrusions in the skin that dete...

Are cotton swabs just the harbinger of infections and other nastiness, or are these loyal wax remove...

Exposure to air pollution over a long-term period raises your risk of developing emphysema – a debi...

A 65-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after attempting to hit a high note during an intense ka...

A doctor helped discover the cause of his own severe form of Castleman disease and successfully trea...

The dentures had been stuck in the man’s larynx for a total of eight days....

Researchers have stopped an experimental drug trial looking into potential treatments for Ebola on t...

Researchers analyzing the genomes of various strains of C. difficile have discovered it is a millenn...

A man discovered his penis was turning into bone after going into hospital for knee pain. Yikes....

A chlamydia vaccine has been trialed in humans for the first time – and it was a success, with resul...

A new species of bacteria is evolving specifically to target the niche of hospitals, but the antisep...

A recent excavation of Site 1 at Bang Ang, a site containing nearly 400 jars, suggests that burial j...

New research by Stanford University School of Medicine has identified tens of thousands of proteins ...

A 62-year-old woman in Canada has been left with burns after attempting the treatment....

Over the years, dozens of accounts of wild animals found in consumer-grade leafy green prepackaged s...

New analysis shows how repeated hits can damage the brain of football players even without a concuss...