The UK has a commendable track record of supporting children to receive needed medical care during armed conflict. It has ...

Nestor Montalvo had a headache and his vision began to blur. When he tried to stand up, the right side of his body was numb ...

These bone-eating communities are ancient, and have been on Earth for at least 100 million years. Before whales existed, bone-eating worms were eating into the skeletons of mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs and ...

Auckland councillor Julie Fairey reflects on the stress – both personal and communal – that preventable road accidents cause.

After CT and MRI scans, medics believed it was a transient ischemic attack (TIA), sometimes called a "ministroke." It is different from major types of stroke. Blood flow to the brain is blocked for ...

A new dad who chalked up his persistent headaches to the pressures of fatherhood was actually living with an incurable brain tumour. Elliot Godfrey, 42, began to experience severe migraines after a ...

One might think the work would wear on Lin, who is a father himself, but instead he’s filled with wonder at how the body can ...

A 31-year-old fisherman in Louisiana experienced a life-threatening accident when the sharp bill of a white marlin struck him ...

Branded as re-education facilities, the camps approximately house one million inmates for 'vocational training', which the ...

In the Jewish tradition, blood is deemed to be life itself, the life force, so to speak. In biology too, of course. Hence, ...

X-ray, CT, or MRI scans of the abdomen transient elastography (also known as FibroScan), shear wave elastography, or acoustic radiation force impulse imaging, which assesses liver stiffness ...