Category: 5. Health

When the U.S. Department of Justice moved to reclassify medical marijuana to a Schedule III drug on April 23, 2026, it set the stage for a vast amount of medical research that has been hobbled for decades by its more restrictive Schedule I…

Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, is ordering all states to step up their efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud.

His April 21, 2026, announcement expanded on the Trump administration’s related

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, caused 141,733 deaths in the United States in 2023 – the latest data that has been…

For the first time in almost 80 years, U.S. service members will no longer be mandated to receive the annual influenza vaccine.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the change on April 22, 2026. Citing medical autonomy and religious…

Keeping tabs on blood sugar throughout the day used to be the exclusive domain of people with diabetes. But in 2026, anyone can buy a user-friendly wearable device that provides minute-by-minute readouts on how their glucose levels respond…

Filtering a protein out of a pregnant person’s blood may help ease a dangerous complication of pregnancy.

In a study of 16 women with early preeclampsia, pulling a particular protein from their blood slightly lowered blood pressure…

Manual antibody cocktail preparation is a persistent source of error and…

Scientists at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have recently discovered a mechanism that promotes the formation of cancer-associated antigens. Researchers in the Scientific Computing Research Unit (SCRU)…

The immune system is made up of various cells that combat disease. Each cell plays a pivotal role in mediating infection to contain and negate its systemic effects. There are several cells that generate innate…