Given current events, many people are wearing face masks to protect themselves and others. 

A study of five different seafoods has found traces of plastic in every sample tested.

Walking with a purpose – especially walking to get to work – makes people walk faster and consider themselves to be healthier, a new study has found.

Scientists have found that air pollution in the winter is associated with more hospitalisations for all strokes in Dublin.

A team of medical researchers has found that in human milk, pasteurisation inactivates the virus that causes COVID-19, confirming milk bank processes have been safe throughout the pandemic, and will remain safe going forward, too.

Results from a recent clinical trial indicate that for older adults with advanced cancer, initiating aspirin may increase their risk of disease progression and early death. 

Just as redeploying a fleet of small British fishing boats helped during the Battle of Dunkirk, marshalling the research equipment and expertise of the many agtech labs around the world could help combat pandemics, say the authors of a just-published article in Nature Biotechnology.

A new online system, developed by the University of Sheffield, which enables healthcare professionals to remotely monitor and support patients who have motor neurone disease (MND) during the Covid-19 pandemic, has been fast-tracked for use by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Investing time in education in childhood and early adulthood expands career opportunities and provides progressively higher salaries. 

As the world continues to closely monitor the newest coronavirus outbreak, the government of South Korea has been able to keep the disease under control without paralyzing the national health and economic systems.