Chronic illness

When we eat as we get older changes, but what impact this has on our health isn't well understood. New research, however, has found that in midlife and beyond, eating one particular meal later in the day is linked with a higher risk of early death.

A new study combining brainwave monitoring and machine learning has found that certain types of music can dramatically reduce motion sickness symptoms – by more than half in some cases – offering fresh hope for more pleasant travel experiences.

Scientists have discovered how alcohol cuts off an immune surveilence system in the gut, letting bad bacteria escape detection and flood the liver, causing widespread damage. This inflammation is the key driver of alcohol-associated liver disease.

The first-ever neuroimmune modulation implant has been approved for people with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. It's a potentially life-changing technology that zaps chronic pain with daily one-minute electrical pulses to the vagus nerve.

For the first time, researchers have shown how staying hydrated influences how our bodies react, hormonally, to stress, keeping cortisol in check and in turn lowering the risk of serious health conditions including heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

Some things we eat or drink raise our risk of deadly diseases. Strangely, once we have those diseases, a recent paper claims the same factors can help us live longer. Does this survival twist, dubbed "Cuomo's Paradox," challenge decades of nutritional advice?

Adding to the growing body of evidence supporting the health benefits of cramming all your weekly exercise into two days, a large new study has found that it can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality in adults with diabetes.

What if you could inject a drug into a "problem area" – like the abdomen – and have it safely and rapidly kill off fat cells? We could be within 12 months of this reality, as the world's first safe, targeted fat-loss jab enters Phase 3 trials.

New research suggests that expectations are associated with asthma outcomes. People who thought more negatively about their condition reported worse symptoms, adding to growing evidence about the mind-body connection and its influence on health.

A study found that almost half of Australian teenagers are living with one or more chronic diseases or developmental conditions. The researchers linked these diseases and conditions to factors such as an unhealthy diet and poor mental health.

Enduring a week of cold water plunges can jolt the body’s cells into starting the process of cleaning up old, worn-out, and broken parts, according to a new study. It highlights the potential of ice baths as a treatment for aging or chronic illness.

A new AI model can predict the likelihood of premature death from inflammatory bowel disease, with 95% accuracy. This is good news – by looking beyond the gut for early treatment of other chronic illnesses can greatly reduce the early mortality rate.