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Over the decade from 2014 to 2023, Mexico's infant death rate barely budged, suggesting the country hit a wall in saving babies' lives—even as official paperwork claimed that almost all babies had a medical professional present ...

Nutritional imbalance during pregnancy can have long-lasting effects on the health and disease susceptibility of offspring. As such, high fructose intake through sweetened food and beverages in pregnant women has been associated ...

A nationally representative Australian study published in The Lancet Global Health has found that vision impairment remains almost three times more prevalent among Indigenous Australians ages 50 and older than non-Indigenous ...

For decades, lung disease has been the most visible and life-threatening part of cystic fibrosis. People might picture chronic (long-term) cough, breathlessness, recurrent chest infections and oxygen therapy.

Ischemic heart disease (IHD), also known as coronary artery disease, is a leading cause of death and morbidity in Western countries. IHD arises when blood vessels of the heart become clogged, blunting oxygen and nutrient ...

For patients struggling to breathe because of acute respiratory failure, clearing mucus from the airways is a routine part of treatment. Mucoactive agents are widely used for this purpose. But after years of clinical use, ...

For adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), bofanglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, is associated with more meaningful reductions in hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) levels than semaglutide, according to a study ...

How did a large crab end up trapped inside a plastic bottle with an opening smaller than its body? Hiroshima University researchers investigated this unusual marine mystery, revealing a lesser-known impact of marine plastic ...

Hawking radiation is a form of radiation emitted by black holes, as theoretically predicted by Stephen Hawking. It suggests that black holes do not merely swallow matter—as had previously been assumed—but also emit very faint ...

A new study debunks a recent claim that astronomers may have detected a lunar-mass primordial black hole. In a reanalysis of observations from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), researchers found that the star nicknamed "Phoebe" ...

Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A study, published in Physical Review Letters, by Rice University researchers proposes a detector design that ...

Imagine a simple, everyday foodstuff with a surprising but powerful defense against one of the most serious threats to public health today. What if there's a basic item you keep at home that could represent a brand-new field ...