Dentists, hygienists and other dental professionals are at high risk for work-related exposure to coronavirus, but they can take steps
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Out-of-context photos are a powerful low-tech form of misinformation
When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes—videos that appear real but have actually been created using
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Men Are Sharing When and Why They Take Their Wedding Rings Off
The wedding ring can be a beautiful, romantic symbol of a couple’s commitment to each other. But is it practical?
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Cystic fibrosis carriers are at increased risk for cystic fibrosis-related conditions
Conventional wisdom says that having just one mutated copy of the cystic fibrosis gene has no effects on a person’s
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Are benzodiazepines the new opioids?
Imagine you have the kind of crippling, heart-pounding anxiety where you’re lying sleepless in bed at night, thoughts racing. You
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Natural preferences behind early social interactions in newborns are timed
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Trento, measured the length of time new-born chicks were
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Water births are as safe as land births for mom, baby: study
A new study found that water births are no more risky than land births, and that women in the water
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Half of WHO-recommended policies to reduce chronic diseases are not put into practice
The first analysis of WHO-recommended policies to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) finds that implementation is slowly improving, but
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COPD death rates are falling in many countries but the total number of deaths is increasing
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) death rates fell in most countries between 1995 and 2017, but the total number of
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What are parasites and how do they make us sick?
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species. Three main classes of parasites
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