Summary: A new study reveals how brain inflammation from infections and neurodegenerative diseases causes muscle weakness by releasing the IL-6 protein. Researchers found that IL-6 travels...
Nova Scotia plans to follow the lead of other provinces in the way it screens for cervical cancer, but the switch from Pap smears to testing...
The Hawai‘i Department of Health has confirmed one travel-related dengue virus case on Oʻahu. The individual traveled to a region where dengue is known to be...
Wilfred Simon says it started one day in April after he’d been at his daughter’s duplex in Fort Resolution, N.W.T., helping her deal with a plumbing issue. “I...
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Health experts are warning of new and highly contagious fungal strains after an NYC man in his 30s developed a sexually transmitted form of ringworm —...