Is your health care provider really listening to you?

Americans' taste for booze could be slipping, with the percentage of those who say they consume alcohol hitting an 86-year low, according to a recent Gallup poll.

New research from Monash University's SPHERE Center of Research Excellence has found strong interest among Australian midwives for delivering contraceptive care during postnatal home visits.

The first global systematic review and meta-analysis of hepatitis B care has found critical patient losses at every step of care, calling for decentralized, integrated models to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient retention.

Sub-Saharan Africa currently has the highest infant mortality rate in the world, with 27 babies out of every 1,000 live births dying in their first month. As the climate warms, pregnant women in the region are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, which can cause reduced placental blood flow and dehydration, potentially affecting fetal development. In addition, extreme heat can lead to the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria in the environment, and can make it difficult for women to travel to prenatal care appointments.

West Nile virus (WNV) has been the dominant cause of mosquito-borne illness in the United States since its introduction into North America in 1999. There are no vaccines nor medications to prevent or treat illness in people, so surveillance, prevention, and control remain the best options to protect the public.

UC Berkeley scientists tricked the eye into seeing "the greenest green" they'd ever seen. They say it could transform how we understand and treat eye diseases, and expand the way we see the world around us.

A multi-institution team across Canada and the West Indies reports that gaze patterns can serve as a sensitive marker of cognitive decline, with associated reductions in explorative, adaptive, and differentiated visual sampling of the environment.

University of Warwick researchers have built a new diamond-based magnetic field sensor that could be used to better find tumors through tracing magnetic fluid injected into the body.

It's often mistaken for a heart attack, but Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—previously known as Broken Heart syndrome—is a serious and sometimes fatal heart condition increasingly reported in intensive care units (ICUs). Yet without a clear clinical pathway in ICUs, it's often missed, putting critically ill patients at risk.

Despite an outbreak of measles in 2024 in a Weston elementary school, Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its immunization rate for kindergartners in 2025.

Differences across blood pressure (BP) measurement methods show clinically important variance in readings, according to a review published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A new study by Associate Professor Dennis Egger (Department of Economics and Center for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford) and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley reveals that giving unconditional cash transfers to pregnant women in rural Kenya significantly reduces infant and child mortality.

For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations.

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York City's Harlem neighborhood thought to have originated in contaminated cooling towers has killed five people and put 14 in the hospital, health officials said on Monday.

Ryuji Morizane, MD, Ph.D., of the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the senior/corresponding author of a new paper published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, titled "AAV for gene therapy drives a nephrotoxic response via NFκB in kidney organoids."

In-depth research conducted by UC Davis Health shows that a significant number of autistic children also have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). These findings underscore the need to thoroughly diagnose children when they are young to ensure they have appropriate care.

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become public enemy number one in nutrition debates. From dementia to obesity and an epidemic of "food addiction," these factory-made products, including chips, ready meals, fizzy drinks, and packaged snacks, are blamed for a wide range of modern health problems. Some experts argue that they're "specifically formulated and aggressively marketed to maximize consumption and corporate profits," hijacking our brain's reward systems to make us eat beyond our needs.

How long has it been since you last cleaned your bathroom? If it's been longer than you planned, you might see a buildup of scum, slime or mold around your taps, between the tiles and on the edges of the bath or shower floor.