The World Health Organization has updated its contraceptive guidelines to recommend a wider range of safe and effective options, including emergency contraception, longer-lasting implants, and future contraceptives for men. The expansion aims to give people more choices that meet their individual needs.
Tommy John, the MLB pitcher whose pioneering elbow surgery in 1974 transformed sports medicine and now bears his name, has died at 83. The procedure enabled his 26-year career and has since been performed on thousands of athletes.
Researchers have developed a new approach to fighting malaria using experimental bed nets that can halt the growth of malaria parasites within mosquitoes themselves, representing a novel front in disease prevention beyond simply killing the insects.
British researchers have conducted the first successful clinical trials of vaccines that do not require refrigeration, a breakthrough that could address the problem of half of all vaccines being discarded due to cold chain failures.
Researchers have developed a new interventional treatment for hepatic myelopathy, a rare neurological complication of chronic liver disease that previously could only be cured through liver transplantation.
A novel pacemaker design the size of a sticker employs ultrasound technology rather than conventional wires to treat cardiac arrhythmia, offering a potential alternative to standard surgical pacemaker implantation for millions of patients worldwide.
A major U.S. clinical trial found that silver diamine fluoride, a liquid brushed onto cavities in seconds, stopped decay in more than half of treated cases. The treatment could spare many young children from pain, infection, and surgery.
Catherine L'Estrange from North Acton became the first patient in the UK and second in the world to receive groundbreaking gene therapy for Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a rare condition that progressively causes blindness in children. The treatment, performed at St Helier Hospital in March, involves injecting healthy copies of a gene directly into the eye.
