Category Health & Wellness

Things to consider Burns Burns are common, especially around your home. Burns are commonly caused from heat, fire, radiation, sunlight, electricity, chemicals, or from hot/boiling water. There are 3 degrees of burns: First-degree burns: These are red and painful. They swell…

A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researchers at Penn State. Materials created up to this point to mimic tissues and extracellular matrices (ECMs) —…

In just two weeks, the Trump Administration has gutted USAID — the U.S. Agency for International Development — the government agency overseeing global efforts to improve health and education and decrease poverty and hunger. The systematic dismantling of the 63-year-old…

Ibogaine — a psychoactive plant derivative — has attracted attention for its anti-addictive and anti-depressant properties. But ibogaine is a finite resource, extracted from plants native to Africa like the iboga shrub (Tabernanthe iboga) and the small-fruited voacanga tree (Voacanga…

Flu cases are rising again after briefly falling in January. Grace Cary/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Grace Cary/Getty Images Many people are feeling lousy right now as the winter stew of respiratory viruses simmers. But there are a couple…