Health

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The culprit is a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) that’s regularly found on the skin. It’s long been thought to play a role in the development of skin cancer, but wasn’t …

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday North Carolina’s first reported case of West Nile virus in 2025. Officials said the case was found in a Durham County resident. Officials have not released the name of the person who tested positive. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the West Nile virus is the leading …

Nathan Bevan & Sara Smith BBC News, South East Gabriel & Sebastian Shemirani The 23-year-old, from Uckfield in East Sussex, died from a heart attack caused by her tumour An osteopath who saw a woman with cancer shortly before her death has told her inquest he had “never seen anything like” her case in 43 years of practice. Paloma Shemirani, …

We’ve known for a while that the idea that eggs are full of “bad” cholesterol isn’t exactly accurate. A new study confirms these findings, showing that you should really focus on how much saturated fat you’re consuming alongside your morning eggs. And as it turns out, it’s often the foods you eat with eggs that are high in saturated fats, …

According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far more than previously thought. Worse still, most of them are small enough to penetrate deep into our lungs. Plastic is one of the defining environmental issues of our time, clogging up everything from our waterways to our bloodstreams. Tiny …

There really might be something to the idea of summertime sadness, at least for boys. A study finds that men born in the summer are more vulnerable to developing depression than men born at other times of the year. Researchers at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, Canada, conducted the study, an international survey of adults. They found that …

Heat poses an extra risk for millions of Americans who take medications for issues ranging from high blood pressure to antidepressants. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP For the millions of Americans who take medications for common issues like heart disease or high blood pressure, a heatwave like the one causing sweltering conditions across the Central and Southeastern …

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Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Per the authors, it’s the first example of a biolaser cavity within the animal kingdom. As previously reported, the bright iridescent colors in things like peacock …

Two different lifestyle interventions improved cognition over 2 years in older adults at risk for cognitive decline, topline results from the Alzheimer’s Association’s US POINTER study showed.  However, the high-intensity, structured intervention with more support and accountability led to significantly greater improvement on global cognition compared to a less intense, self-guided intervention. “Compared to the self-guided group, participants in the …