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Scientists say that 16 specific genes are potentially responsible for why some people become ICU COVID cases, and others don't.

Professor Peter Bretscher, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Saskatchewan, explains what we can learn from the treatment and prevention of tropical leishmaniases.

Underserved communities are at nearly double the risk of smoking dependency according to new research publishing in CANCER the peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society

Dr Peter Diamond, Head of Research from the Leukaemia Foundation, describes what we need to know about amyloidosis, a rare but devastating blood condition

While global cases of depression and anxiety rose by 25% in the pandemic, governments spend just over 2% of their budget on mental health.

Keith Valentine, Chief Executive of Fight for Sight, explains why eye health research needs to be on the political agenda.

Carolyn Hobdey examines how the global pandemic affected women's health attitudes, such as contraception, menstruation and reproductive rights.

Elisabeth Morgans, Senior project manager at C3 Collaborating for Health, discusses solutions to tackle physical inactivity and overcome the ever pervasive and entrenched issue of health inequality.

The platform, My Planned Care, will let patients check local hospital waiting times for specialist treatment - in order to fight the NHS COVID backlog.

Lester Litchfield, Data & Science Manager, Volpara Health, explores how to build confidence in the use of AI for mammography clinical practice Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well suited to manage repetitive processes and to identify patterns in large amounts of data. By applying AI to image interpretation tasks such as...

Medical oxygen supplies are "dangerously low" across Ukrainian hospitals, with transport routes limited due to Russian violence.

Dr Helen Rowe has a long-standing interest in the human immune system and how it defends us from viruses and from genome invaders known as transposable elements.

An increase in “deaths of despair” – suicide and overdose – across the US has been linked to robot manufacturing which is gradually replacing people in their jobs.

Ute Deichmann from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, explores the issues of irreproducibility and scientific truth

Though healthcare everywhere advocates for AI, health barriers are presented with minority ethnic groups – as bias can be exacerbated against minority ethnic groups in datasets.

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) change the process of drug development for the pharmaceutical industry?

Lester Litchfield is a Machine Learning Engineer and Data Analyst from Wellington, New Zealand He has built and productionized dozens of machine learning services that have been used tens of millions of times in the healthcare, retail, real estate and recruitment industries. After discovering a passion for healthcare, he was...

According to The Lancet, 80-90% of people living with depression in low-and-middle-income countries are not diagnosed or treated.

After receiving a cord blood stem cell transplant to treat acute myeloid leukaemia a woman with diagnosed HIV has had no detectable levels of HIV for 14 months

Good, social relationships mean an individual receives but also gives significant support - now, scientists suggest that the giving part may improve future health.