Health

Investigating the relation between predicted lean body mass or fat mass and the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The findings could help develop a screening method for early diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver.

Babies born by caesarean section have a reduced level of “good” gut bacteria and an increased number of pathogens linked to hospital environments.

Blood flukes and H. pylori: co-infection changes immune response.

Mucosal Associated Invariant T cells.

Concerning evidence of the possible adverse effects of taking paracetamol during pregnancy.

This could open up new ways to treat obesity.

EPFL scientists have helped develop a microscopic glass device that doctors could use to inject medicine into retinal veins with unprecedented accuracy. Their instrument meets an important need in eye surgery, delivering exceptional stability and precision.

A fully automatic technique that provides an accurate method for assessing brain microstructural damage.

System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.

For the first time, researchers at the University of Bristol’s Blood and Transplant Research Unit, and the French National Institute for Blood Transfusion, have captured the moment a red blood cell is ‘squeezed’ while recording the changes that allow it to deform and subsequently recover its shape.

Group A streptococcus is a bacterium often found in the throat and on the skin. It is known to cause known to cause scarlet...