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January 8, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmIn Unprecedented Move, NASA to Rush Astronauts Home after Medical Incident on ISSNASA on Thursday announced it…

Nasa is cutting short a mission aboard the International Space Station after an astronaut had a medical issue.The space agency said Thursday the US-Japanese-Russian crew of…

Higher consumption of some food preservatives is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer, two studies suggest.The findings, published in the medical…

Losing weight may be a common new year resolution but health experts have warned against buying medications for such purposes from social media sellers or other…

The nation’s largest organization for medical examiners has issued a warning about a controversial, centuries-old forensic test that has contributed to cases in which pregnant women…

A leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human…

More than 500,000 people in Great Britain now use nicotine pouches, with the significant rise in uptake driven by members of gen Z, research has revealed.Nicotine…

The health minister, Mark Butler, says he is “determined” to make specialist fees his government’s second-term priority.After a first term prioritising general practice bulk-billing rates, Butler…

When I mentioned to colleagues in the NHS that I was helping with admissions interviews for medical students, several responded with the same wry smile and…

Doctors are cautiously optimistic about a groundbreaking gene therapy for children affected by a devastating inherited disorder after seeing positive results in the first boy to…