Health & Medicine

PARIS, July 14 — One hundred and thirty-nine years after a nine-year-old boy became the first human to survive a rabies infection…

OSLO — A large-scale Norwegian study has documented a decline in IQ scores among men, a trend that began in the 1970s…

OSLO — A major Norwegian study challenges long-held assumptions about wealth, education, and cognitive development, finding that IQ score declines began earliest…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — A 2017 Accenture report projected that artificial intelligence could save the U.S. healthcare system $150 billion annually by…

MONTREAL, July 13 — McGill University has announced a new partnership with HDT Bio, a biotechnology firm, to advance clinical trials for…

SRINAGAR, July 13 — A high-level meeting convened here today brought together the Principals of Government Medical Colleges and the Directors of…

WASHINGTON — A new type of vaccine candidate is taking a well-established immunological approach and aiming it at one of the most…

HOUSTON, July 13 — A vaccine candidate designed to neutralise fentanyl and its illicit chemical cousins has cleared an early scientific hurdle,…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The opioid crisis in the United States imposes an estimated economic cost of over $1 trillion annually, according…

HOUSTON, July 13 — A fentanyl vaccine candidate has moved one step closer to human testing, with preclinical results showing it blocked…

WASHINGTON — Inside a laboratory, a small group of mice is changing how researchers think about the opioid crisis. These animals, immunized…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The figure that matters: Over 107,000 lives lost to drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021. That is…

SEATTLE, July 13 — The global chessboard of infectious disease is seeing a strategic pivot. As the world recalibrates its approach to…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The opioid crisis in the United States has reached unprecedented levels, with the Centers for Disease Control and…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — On a research campus in Seattle, a team of scientists is closing in on a weapon against one…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — A vaccine candidate designed to prevent fentanyl overdoses is moving toward human clinical trials, offering a potential new…

SEATTLE — A new vaccine candidate developed at the University of Washington School of Medicine has been published in Nature Communications ,…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The price tag of autism in America runs into tens of billions of dollars every year, and new…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The opioid crisis in the United States has escalated dramatically over the past two decades, with synthetic opioids…

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The technical reality of the opioid epidemic has shifted decisively toward synthetic chemistry. According to the CDC, over…

SAN DIEGO, July 13 — A novel vaccine candidate developed at the Scripps Research Institute takes a clever, molecularly precise approach to…