The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans to conduct 100,000 t...

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

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

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

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

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

Finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is simultaneously one of the most pressing and difficult tasks in medicine today. Between 2000 and 2015, the numbe...

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