Category: 5. Health

A study published in Frontiers explores the microbial diversity within hospital sink drains across multiple wards over a year-long period, focusing on bacterial communities, species identification, and antibiotic resistance. Hospital sink drains are critical…

Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and more severe. Many of his young patients have so much damage that he has to work with…

It’s important for the body to detect what we touch, or feel the cold or heat of the environment. Scientists have now found that inflammation can alter these important signals, and boost pain sensations. The findings have been reported in Nature.

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“Dr. Google,” the nickname for the search engine that answers hundreds of millions of health…

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WASHINGTON — When traces of H5N1 bird flu showed up in cow’s milk last year, it raised fears that the virus could become more infectious to humans. So far, that hasn’t happened, virologist Richard Webby reported April 23 at the World Vaccine Congress Washington.

Cows were…