Category: 5. Health

A lot of research has been done on the outcomes of young children who receive care in early education programs across the country. High-quality early childhood education programs positively shape young children’s development. Far less research has focused on the early childhood workforce…

Clinicians and patients have long reported mood swings, behavioral changes, and other mental health issues after an infection or autoimmune flare. Now scientists are starting to learn more about why these psychological symptoms can occur during inflammatory…

What’s your idea of fun? How about getting a medical test and waiting for the test results?…

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers describe how this…

What are the potential health risks from airborne dust pollution, especially in the growing threat of climate change? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how natural dust…

Every day in emergency departments around the world, the toll of aging is evident: falls, fractures, strokes, and heart attacks in older adults. Even when patients survive…

The death of a second child from measles is raising alarm bells anew that an ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease is larger than official numbers suggest. And it comes at a time when the Trump administration’s widespread cuts to public health funding and jobs are gutting…

A woman in the U.K. has become the first in the country to give birth after receiving a womb transplant from her sister.

Grace Davidson, 36 gave birth on February 27th to a healthy baby girl via caesarean section at…