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Researchers tracking 1,700 adults found midlife TV watching causes long-term brain shrinkage and white matter damage.

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Authorities report at least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers during Congo's Ebola outbreak. Safety fears are restricting the response in Ituri province.

Medical experts from Nigeria and abroad have raised concern over the growing burden of osteoporosis, describing it as one of the country's most neglected non-communicable diseases and calling for urgent action to prevent avoidable fractures, disability and deaths. The experts made the call in Ibadan during the inaugural meeting of the Osteoporosis Care Network (TOCAN),...

For decades, cataracts were considered a natural part of ageing. Most people expected to hear about them after retirement, not while building careers or raising young families. But eye specialists are now noticing something that would have seemed unusual a generation ago. More adults in their 30s and 40s are being diagnosed with cataracts.While getting older remains the biggest risk factor, doctors say changing lifestyles and the growing burden of diabetes are shifting the timeline. India is home to one of the largest populations of people living with diabetes, making this trend especially concerning. Experts say cataracts do not appear overnight. They develop gradually, often without causing pain. That is why understanding the link between diabetes and eye health can make a real difference.

Lung transplant for lung cancer shows early promise in selected lung-only stage IV NSCLC, but recurrence, ethics, and short follow-up remain concerns.

On 27 July 1866, the cable-laying ship Great Eastern reached Heart's Content in Newfoundland with an unbroken telegraph line trailing back across the Atlantic

This week’s African health brief covers the worsening Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda’s progress toward ending

In Penhalonga, a gold-rich area in eastern Zimbabwe, George Mutsoka woke up one morning suffering from fatigue, a severe headache and joint aches .

A Montreal-based study is helping doctors better recognize a little-known childhood food allergy that can send infants and young children to the emergency department with severe vomiting and dehydration. Researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre followed 87 children diagnosed with food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), making it the first Canadian […]