Gary Flook served in the Air Force for 37 years, as a firefighter at the now-closed Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois and the former Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, where he regularly trained with aqueous film forming foam, ...

As summer winds down, there’s a new COVID variant on the rise. EG.5.1, nicknamed the “Eris” variant, has become the dominant strain in the US, making up 17.3 percent of cases in the US.  The variant is a descendant of ...

Archaeologists in Rome have unearthed a treasure trove of Renaissance-era medical supplies inside the Forum of Caesar. Among the “golden” finds are 500 year-old medicine bottles and urine flasks. In a study published April 11 in the journal Antiquity, the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that all infants under eight months old should get a new antibody shot aimed to protect the body against severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The agency’s Advisory Committee ...

The next time you go grocery shopping, don’t forget to pick up a case of kombucha. Tea lovers have long hailed the funky, fermented drink for keeping the gut healthy and running smoothly, and now we can tack on diabetes ...

The living relatives of Henrietta Lacks have reached a settlement with the biotechnology company that took her cervical cells without her knowledge over 70 years ago. Lacks’ descendants sued Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2021, accusing the leaders of profiting ...

More people in the United States are dying from causes related to excessive alcohol consumption since 1999. Surprisingly, this is particularly true for American women, according to a study published July 28 in the journal JAMA Network Open. While men ...

This article is republished from The Conversation. As a veterinary science researcher, equine surgeon and sports medicine and rehabilitation specialist, I’ve seen firsthand the similarities between horses and humans. Both horses and people with endocrine disorders like Type 2 diabetes ...

Every year, around 42,000 women and 500 men in the US die of breast cancer, a disease that when caught early before it spreads to the rest of the body has a 99-percent five-year survival rate. It’s when the cancer ...

New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations have jumped by over 10 percent across the United States. At least 7,109 admissions were reported for the week of July 15, up from ...