Artificial intelligence is helping health authorities respond more quickly to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), cutting the time needed to prepare...
Portuguese teenagers are reporting lower levels of alcohol and drug use and fewer problems linked to addictive behaviours, but risks are becoming increasingly concentrated among young...
The death of a scientist in Russia’s Siberian region of Irkutsk has revived concerns about plague, but health authorities say there is currently no evidence of...
Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on light-gated ion channels...
About 1.3 billion people worldwide live with migraine, making it one of the most common neurological disorders and a major cause of disability, while many patients...
Birdwatching is being explored as a way to help stroke survivors practise communication and rebuild social connections, with researchers at the University of Montana using encounters...
More Europeans are exercising regularly than they were four years ago, but participation continues to vary sharply depending on where people live, their age, education and...
Children born with certain infections acquired during pregnancy face substantially higher risks of autism and intellectual disability later in life, according to a study of more...
Artificial intelligence chatbots may make faster and more confident decisions than human doctors when determining which patient should receive a life-saving kidney transplant, but a new...
Health authorities in Frankfurt have warned residents and people working near the city’s airport to seek medical advice if they develop an unexplained fever after six...
