Almost three years into the pandemic, the spotlight isn’t just on COVID medicine anymore. While booster shots and take-home antiviral pills gave us new tools to fight the infectious disease, health researchers and drug makers regained momentum in other crucial ...

This article was originally published on KFF Health News. What do kidney and pancreas transplants have to do with airplane regulations? Tucked into the hundreds of pages of legislative language to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration is a provision to ...

Chronic constipation may be linked to cognitive decline, according to research presented at the  Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in the Netherlands on July 19. Roughly 16 percent of the world’s population struggles with constipation, with older adults particularly prone to ...

On February 24, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) authorized what the agency says is the fist at-home test for detecting both COVID-19 and the flu. The test uses one nasal swab to collect a sample from the nose and ...

On Monday July 17, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first long-acting medication  to protect babies and toddlers against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The lung-attacking virus sends about 58,000 children under five to the hospital and kills 100 to 300 ...

This article was published on KFF Health News. Excessive drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease deaths so much that the condition killed more Californians than car accidents or breast cancer, a KFF Health News analysis has found. ...

This article was originally featured in Knowable Magazine. Every four months, pathologist Aaron LeBeau scoops into a net one of the five nurse sharks he keeps in his University of Wisconsin lab. Then he carefully administers a shot to the ...

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This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from Richard Conniff’s book “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” In 1918, epidemic disease and war once again embraced with all their old passion. The deadly ...

A popular artificial sweetener, erythritol, has been linked to blood clotting, heart attack, stroke, and death, according to a study published February 27 in the journal Nature Medicine. Individuals with elevated factors for heart disease–such as diabetes–were twice as likely ...