Experts say parental controls are good, but AI still needs more oversight to protect youth

From images of fruit to claims of being "sugar-free," baby foods often feature misleading claims aimed at convincing parents the products are a healthy choice, new research shows.

Big pharmacies and public health clinics in Georgia are not yet giving this year's COVID-19 booster shots, or are putting new restrictions in place, amid vaccine uncertainty under Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.

The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world's largest biomedical research funder—the federal government's National Institutes of Health.

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it's too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more than a slowing of the inevitable. But what if we could understand the very first steps of this disease before irreversible damage sets in?

The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminizing hormone therapy. This is demonstrated by an Amsterdam UMC-led trial among 90 participants and these results were presented at the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) annual congress in Hamburg.

An aging population, still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, is seeking more treatment for dizziness and imbalance in Minnesota.

Adults over 65 whose weight decreases or fluctuates by more than 5% may experience faster cognitive decline, according to researchers in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State. The team has published its findings in the journal Obesity.

King's College London and Imperial College London, in collaboration with the UK MS Register, report a prevalent multiple sclerosis (MS) subtype marked by significant cognitive deficits with minimal motor impairment, a form of disability the authors state is currently unrecognized and untreated.

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford, opening up new possibilities for neurological research and treatment of disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Eighty-nine percent of female rugby players who took part in a new study experience pain or discomfort from the boots they're wearing.

The goal of professional sports has always been to win. Looking good while doing it? That's just a bonus for the gawkers and connoisseurs of bodily form in motion.

People who live in the most deprived areas of the UK experience post-traumatic stress disorder at three times the rate of those who live in more affluent areas.

Women have gotten the message: Breast milk is best for babies. The vast majority begin breastfeeding their infants at birth. So why do most quit earlier than planned?

Researchers from Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan, have revealed that environment influences social behaviors in autism. By using zebrafish that have a mutation in ube3a, a gene linked to Angelman syndrome (AS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), they demonstrate that sensory processing of environmental information is determinant in the outcome of socializing or not.

A new study led by researchers at the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease and the Center for Pulmonary Precision Medicine (P2MED) in the Yale Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine (Yale PCCSM) sheds light on how asthma behaves differently in males and females both in symptoms and at the level of gene expression. The results are published in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

Single women and female same-sex couples accounted for 1 in 5 IVF cycles in 2023, according to the latest report on IVF births across Australia and New Zealand.

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm that can use bone density scans captured to detect potential spine fractures to estimate visceral fat levels, providing a quick, painless and affordable detection method.

Doctors at UI Health performed the first islet transplant with Lantidra, the only therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat brittle type 1 diabetes. A 69-year-old man from Illinois received the therapy on Aug. 26 and subsequently was able to stop taking daily, life-saving insulin injections.