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With the number of Legionnaires’ disease cases now at 23, New York City is aggressively testing more than 150 cooling towers on Upper East Side buildings

Asia Pacific’s medtech sector is entering a new phase of growth, shaped by some of the most urgent healthcare challenges facing the region: ageing populations, a rising chronic disease burden and severe healthcare workforce shortages

Images of people jumping from icy plunge baths after a period in saunas or hot tubs are heating up social media. Participants claim that this method—“contrast therapy”—improves their mental health and helps their muscles recover more efficiently. 

There is a particular pleasure to eating a fresh oyster: the briny taste, the cool slide of it, the way a squeeze of lemon accentuates all the flavors. Most people don’t think about inflammation when they eat one, but researchers in Italy think maybe they should

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lumvoa™ (veligrotug-vvze) for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED) regardless of TED activity or duration

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has agreed to acquire Crinetics Pharmaceuticals for $10 billion cash, the companies said, in a deal that would expand the buyer’s rare disease portfolio beyond its anchor indication of cystic fibrosis (CF), by adding an approved treatment and a pipeline anchored by two Phase III candidates, all predicted to generate more than $5…

Biohacker Bryan Johnson, who says he spends US$2 million a year on his health, has revealed that he has an incurable disease and says his stomach is “eating itself.”

Texas (KWTX) – Coryell Health Advanced Wound Center is home to a hyperbaric chamber used to circulate oxygen as a treatment for chronic diseases and wound healing

Bansi Nagji discusses the shifting science behind rare and orphan drug development, including what it takes for therapies to succeed well beyond launch

Cases of food poisoning stemming from a parasite that causes explosive diarrhea are continuing to spread across the United States, topping 700 in Michigan the week after July Fourth