An electron micrograph of the measles virus. Credit: CDC/ Courtesy of Cynthia S. Goldsmith Mexican health authorities reported 22 cases of measles on Thursday, following an outbreak in the United…
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Symptoms of long COVID can last up to two years after infection, research suggests
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Some 23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long COVID, and in more than half of them the symptoms persisted for…
Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year to the highest reported level since 1997
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File There…
Errors in attention adaptively impact spatial working memory, study finds
Attention error and spatial working memory experimental paradigm. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02109-5 Humans are known to rapidly adapt their mental processes and behavior based on feedback they…
More than 1.2 million medical device side-effect reports not submitted within legal timeframe, analysis finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than 1.2 million medical device adverse event reports were not submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the deadline set by federal…
Novel spatial immune-based risk prediction platform can predict hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence
Spatial multi-omics analysis reveals associations between NK cell distribution and HCC recurrence. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI:10.1038/s41586-025-08668-x A research team led by Prof. Sun Cheng from the University of Science and…
The Aussie diet in 2030 will have less fruit and more junk food if current trends continue
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aussies are falling short of key national health targets, according to scientists who have used an innovative technique to forecast future dietary trends. New research from…
Trump is cancelling a republican project to wipe out AIDS, putting millions of lives at risk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Enormous progress has been made in tackling the global HIV epidemics over the past two decades. The number of people dying from HIV-related causes has fallen…
Proposed legislation would provide crucial funding for endometriosis research
Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels The Endometriosis CARE Act, which was introduced in 2022, seeks to deliver $50 million annually to advance research and expand access to treatment for this…
Higher income is linked to both greater life satisfaction and more stress, study finds
Stress and life satisfaction trade-off with income. Trends against annual household income of (a) predicted life satisfaction for the respondents (NOverall = 2,038,169) who experienced prior-day (ES) and those who…
