Patients referred to social prescribing are more likely to seek health care in the short term but could end up needing their primary care physician less often within a year, according to a new study by University of Manchester researchers published in eClinicalMedicine.

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, most of them young children in Africa. Two vaccines are now recommended by the World Health Organization: RTS,S and R21. Both are helpful interventions, but neither works as well or as long as public health officials would like.

Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac function remains one of the greatest challenges in cardiovascular biology.

Women live longer than men in nearly every country in the world, yet they experience higher rates of disability, dementia and many other age-related conditions.

Safe drinking water depends not only on treatment, but also on knowing when harmful microorganisms may be present in source waters.

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows.

Pharmacists are calling for more medication reviews to curb the £480 million of medicines wasted by the NHS in England each year.
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Apparently, somewhere, somebody has been claiming that neonatal male circumcision causes autism spectrum disorder. Rather than immediately dismissing this unusual idea, a team of paediatricians and epidemiologists based in the USA tested the hypothesis thoroughly and found it easy to disprove. They published the results of the study in JAMA Pediatrics, a well respected medical […]

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