Pakistan detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country's tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year, officials said Wednesday. from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news s…

For the first time since 2021, a pill used to help people quit smoking—varenicline—will again be available from the NHS. from Medical Xpress - latest medical and health news stories https://ift.tt/z5iFS8C

High cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with better cognitive performance and lower risk of dementia in the long term, including in people with a genetic predisposition to dementia, show the findings of a study published online in the British J…

Medical professionals have long known that the earlier a disease is detected, the higher the chance for a better patient outcome. Now, a multidisciplinary team of Michigan State University researchers, in collaboration with experts from Karolinska I…

A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights. from M…

A paper titled "Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Detection and Classification" published in Biology Methods and Protocols shows that scientists can train artificial intelligence (AI) models to distinguish brain tumors fr…

Swedish young men who went through late puberty during adolescence are more likely to use health care services later in life, according to research presented at the 62nd Annual European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology Meeting in Liverpool. The f…