Results from a new U.S. study show that, despite strong recommendations in favor of consuming omega-3 fatty acids for optimal pregnancy outcomes and offspring health, 25 percent of women reported rarely or never eating fish during pregnancy, with fewer taking omega-3 supplements.

Ultra-processed food is directly linked to 32 harmful effects on health, including a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, adverse mental health, and early death, according to the world’s largest review of its kind.

More than 831,000 fragility fractures occur annually in Germany, the equivalent of 95 broken bones per hour. The cause is osteoporosis, a disease in which the skeleton becomes weak and fragile, increasing the risk of fractures that result in disability, loss of independence, and premature death for some sufferers.

President Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russian scientists were on the cusp of developing a vaccine for cancer, adding that he hopes the new therapy could be applied to individual treatments in the future.

The brains of people with higher exposure to traffic-related air pollution are more likely to have high amounts of the amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study.

Many members of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch Parliament, want a large-scale cohesive study to be carried out into the causes of excess mortality in the Netherlands since 2020. More people have died than expected for four years in a row.

A new study from scientists at The University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Fudan University in China has identified 11 proteins that can be used as biomarkers to predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis.

The European Commission’s decision to reauthorize the herbicide glyphosate for 10 years is being challenged in three separate legal actions.