Demolition work is now underway at the 16 acre site with new construction on industrial and logistics units expected to start ...

Six-year-old Arthur cleaning graves at the London Road Cemetery in Raunds A group of young scouts are proving their reputation for doing good deeds by cleaning and maintaining derelict graves in ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

Young got a prescription from her doctor, and the box was sent to her by a medical-device company called Cytokind that is hoping to expand such use to MS and other autoimmune diseases and was ...

If you’re thinking about being in the woods this summer, experts are warning to stay alert for ticks, as this year may see a spike in tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease. The reason?

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that infectious diseases capture public attention at the expense of chronic conditions and chronic diseases. “Every kid who ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made some claims about Americans with chronic diseases that should be challenged with critical thinking. (Alex Wong/Getty Images ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen ...

Affected populations: POLG-related diseases are a group of rare, incurable conditions caused by inherited gene mutations. These disease-causing mutations are carried by up to 2% of people of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear in testimony before the Senate this week that if confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, his focus would be on chronic diseases over infectious ones.

By analyzing allele frequencies and effect sizes at various genomic loci, the study projected potential reductions in disease prevalence among individuals with edited genomes. Additionally ...

A grieving mother says she still does not know how her son died, nearly three months after his body was discovered in a lake. Jamie Attwood, 37, was found in Stanwick Lakes, Northamptonshire ...