Why you should not give decongestants to young children for common cold symptoms

So Professor Mieke van Driel and colleagues analysed published evidence on the effectiveness of treatments for the common cold...

Father smoking may cause cognitive problems in offspring: study

The researchers from Florida State University in Tallahassee exposed male mice to low-dose nicotine in their drinking water during the stage of life in which the mice produce sperm...

Survey Shows Widespread Skepticism of Flu Shot Despite Doctor Recommendations

Experts recommend that any healthy person over six months of age get the flu shot....

Two new cases: Children in the US are struck by mysterious polio-like disease

She is now one of 38 children to develop partial paralysis from acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in 16 US states so far this year...

Too much sugar makes children more violent and more likely to get drunk or smoke - with energy drinks the worst offenders

Children were nearly three-and-a-half times as likely to be a bully if they had a lot of sweets and energy drinks, one study found....

Treatment of a metabolic liver disease by in vivo genome base editing in adult mice

Тargeting genetic diseases in vivo using AAV-mediated delivery of base-editing agents is feasible, demonstrating potential for therapeutic application....

Breakthrough for babies with cleft palates as scientists claim umbilical cord blood could be used to repair the common facial defect

Cleft palates, in which the skull has a gap on the face where the nose and mouth join up, affect around one in every 700 babies...

Therapy dogs can spread superbugs to kids, hospital finds

The results of the unpublished study were released Friday at a scientific meeting in San Francisco...

Impaired platelet activity and hypercoagulation in healthy term and moderately preterm newborns during the early neonatal period

Iranian infant backs to life in morgue

While the dead body was given ritual bathing to be prepared for shrouding and burial, it regained vital signs, Amir Abbas Abedini told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) in an interview...