I wrote about what we know so far about Covaxin — the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech in India. The full article, which...

Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...

Treatments that help the immune system fight multiple myeloma are emerging fast, but the number of people who relapse remains high. One...

While researchers around the world are developing vaccines for COVID-19, in the coming months governments will face another major...

Hydroxychloroquine has had a busy few months. After being repeatedly endorsed by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19,...

The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans...

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets...

Blueberries are fascinating to scientists. In humans, the berries have been shown to lower blood pressure and help kids perform better on...

The number of people with food allergies has risen sharply in the last few decades, especially in Western nations. Around 8% of American...

Most UK-based scientists who penned the most highly research in the last decade are not funded by the country’s top health funders,...

Smoking is the most preventable cause of death, causing nearly 6 million deaths worldwide every year. At current rates, this figure is...

Finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is simultaneously one of the most pressing and difficult tasks in medicine today. Between 2000...

Young people today seem more connected than ever to their peers. Compared to older generations, the under-25 crowd grew up with laptops,...