LONDON, July 2 -- For decades, the cardiovascular math of obesity was unforgiving. Higher body weight meant higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol, and a measurably shorter life. That relationship ... Read More
BRUSSELS, July 2 -- By the time health officials in fourteen countries began comparing case reports, the connecting thread was something found in nearly every European kitchen: a packet of flavoured i... Read More
PHOENIX, July 2 -- On a normal July 4th weekend, the main difference between a backyard barbecue and a West Nile virus exposure is whether the hosts remembered to empty the birdbath. This year, the Ce... Read More
BEIJING, July 2 -- For as long as medicine has tried to understand where human blood begins, the answer pointed inside the embryo. Three weeks into development, a process called gastrulation sets the ... Read More
TIGERTON, July 2 -- The night before he unwittingly became the reason his six-year-old sister is alive, Nicklas Kale spent an afternoon in the backyard fashioning a sword out of wood. He had been watc... Read More
HIROSAKI, July 2 -- An older adult running low on vitamin C may be losing something less visible than energy or immune resistance: the physical substance of the brain itself, and the coherence of the ... Read More
WASHINGTON, July 2 -- They knew the drugs worked. What they did not have was $1,350 a month to prove it. On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officially launched its Medicare GLP-... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- patch the corrupted data, move on. "Until now we have managed," Hainaut said. "But it's getting worse." On Wednesday, Hainaut published the first peer-reviewed attempt to define ... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- new medicines, previously too expensive or unavailable on the health service, finally within reach. Samuel Cross read the same deal differently. The University of Liverpool resear... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- KINSHASA - The virus has not been slowing. It has been spreading. Ebola reached a fourth province in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week, moving into Haut-Uele, a landlock... Read More