Good hand hygiene – washing hands or using a hand sanitizing gel – is the best way to prevent the spread of germs. Health care workers should wash their hands before and after caring for each patient.

SIR – Private sector executives are being drafted in to make sure that spending proposals from government departments are ...

MM is the Acting Health Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and reports a grant from the Commonwealth Fund for modelling related to ...

After securing Medicare coverage for its wearable neurostimulator to help people control their hand tremors, Cala Health has raised $50 million to boost its commercial trajectory. The Silicon ...

Eleven people have been infected in the outbreak, the CDC said. Eli Lilly highlighted its drug's effectiveness in helping people lose weight. Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and ...

Well, scientists in Illinois have built a microscopic four-fingered hand to do just that. A team of scientists, led by Xing Wang of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has created a tiny ...

Creativity Camp Improves Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being Nov. 19, 2024 — A research team found that Creativity Camp, a two-week arts intervention delivered as a day camp, had a positive ...

December 12, 2024 • That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.

President-elect Trump named several high-level picks for the State Department on Sunday. In several posts on Truth Social, Trump shared the new positions to work under his nominee for secretary of ...

Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's biggest health agency, it wouldn't take much tampering to enable vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback.

The health sciences study all aspects of health, disease and healthcare. This field of study aims to develop knowledge, interventions and technology for use in healthcare to improve the treatment ...