Study finds ivermectin lowers malaria infection rates when added to existing control methods

A groundbreaking study led by Oregon State University scientists shows that multiple Portland neighborhoods have levels of noise that are likely unhealthy.

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has released the "Alternative Treatments to Selected Medications in the 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria," an updated clinical resource designed to help health care professionals identify safer, more appropriate treatment options for older adults. It is published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

24 July 2025, Cairo, Egypt – World Drowning Prevention Day, a global advocacy event held annually on 25 July, serves as an opportunity to highlight the tragic and profound impact of drowning on families and communities and offer lifesaving solutions to prevent it.   Over the last decade at least 3 million people have lost their lives to drowning. Though there has been a decrease in drowning deaths globally since 2000, over 300 000 lives are still lost each year. In 2021, of the estimated 300 000 drowning deaths that occurred, 12% (35 000) were in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.  The Eastern Mediterranean has the second highest drowning death rate of all WHO regions, with children and youth aged up to 29 years accounting for the vast majority – 83% – of drowning deaths. WHO’s Global Health Estimates for 2021 revealed that children aged 5–14 years accounted for 23.4% of all drowning deaths in the Region, with drowning the second leading cause of death among this age group. Tragically, the Eastern Mediterranean has the highest drowning death rate among children under 4 years of any WHO region.  It has also reported the second smallest decline in drowning death rates of all regions.  That the Region has the highest drowning death rates among low- and lower middle-income countries and the second highest rate among high-income countries underlines the pressing need for urgent action.  Sex, age, poverty Read more...

A new national study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with colleagues at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, University of Chicago, National Opinion Research Center, and Emory University finds that stigma toward patients with substance use disorders (SUD) remains widespread among U.S. health care providers—and varies significantly across types of substances.

If you have ever spotted faces or human-like expressions in everyday objects, you may have experienced the phenomenon of face pareidolia. Now, a new study by the University of Surrey has looked into how this phenomenon grabs our attention, and could be used by advertisers in promoting future products.

A new study has found that the bone fracture protection women get from menopausal hormone therapy (MHT, also known as HRT) disappears within a year of stopping treatment.

A study led by the University of Sydney suggests that walking 7,000 steps a day offers similar health benefits to walking 10,000, across several outcomes.

Many self-tests available on the UK high street are unfit-for-purpose and need much greater regulation to ensure they are safe and reliable, conclude two studies published by The BMJ.

The initiation of dialysis in women with chronic kidney disease during pregnancy varies by clinical practice, signaling a need for standardized care in this population, according to a study published in the July issue of Kidney International Reports.

More than 100,000 Rich's Ice Cream Co. bars have been recalled due to possible listeria contamination.

An international, multi-site clinical study led by an Indiana University School of Medicine researcher and anesthesiologist has found that using advanced technology to monitor tissue oxygen levels in the body during heart surgery does not lower the risk of serious complications afterward. The study is published in the BMJ.

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is feasible in older patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), according to a study published online June 26 in the European Journal of Haematology.

Researchers led by UC Davis Health scientist Sanchita Bhatnagar have developed a promising gene therapy that could treat Rett syndrome. The therapy works on reactivating healthy but silent genes responsible for this rare disorder and possibly other X-linked conditions, such as fragile X syndrome.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has appointed George Francis Tidmarsh, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).

From 2010 to 2023, physician exit rates from traditional Medicare increased, according to a study published online July 18 in JAMA Health Forum.

Hepatitis B virus, a killer of more than one million people each year, is a notoriously wily virus, often lingering and resurfacing even after treatment. But, thanks to a new class of drugs, its luck may be running out.

A study from Florida State University uncovers biological and behavioral consequences of weight loss underlying binge-eating in women with bulimia nervosa and related syndromes. The work is published in the journal Psychological Medicine.

Despite evidence of the risk of malformations at birth, or birth defects, use of some antiseizure drugs during pregnancy has persisted, according to a study published in Neurology.