Health

Scientists are investigating to what extent adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with a higher risk of conditions affecting the heart and blood vessels.

What are Europeans’ views on the COVID-19 pandemic? And how do they feel about the scientists and governments involved in dealing with it? An EU-backed survey takes a look.

Suppose doctors could predict decades in advance if we are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) or cardiovascular disease (CVD). A new study on lipid profiling may have just found a way.

An EU-funded study looks at mortality in 2 rural areas in the United Kingdom during temperature extremes over a 38-year period.

EU-backed researchers make food safety training fun. Their online cooking game increases consumer awareness of safe food handling while training them to engage in risk-reducing behaviour.

Armed with digital technologies, the EU-funded HyperCOG project is helping to create the factories of the future. Its smart system promises to increase production performance and reduce emissions and energy use in Europe’s process industries.

Thanks to the launch of a new dashboard, anyone can use their smartphone to help scientists track mosquitoes – the deadliest animals on Earth.

Despite effective vaccines, the disease kills around 59 000 people a year. We asked medical anthropologist Deborah Nadal why rabies is still a threat.

The EU-funded SAFE-N-MEDTECH project is creating an open access platform to foster the development of next-generation nanotechnology-based medical devices.

The EU-funded MDOT project is helping SMEs manage the requirements of the new Medical Device Regulation without restricting their capacity for innovation.

When it comes to organ donation, our expert Roi Paul Nathan says age is just a number – unless you’re talking about how long the organ has been in transit.

Many of us have been kept awake at night by the memory of some mortifying moment. But why? We asked sleep expert Eus van Someren.

Even the healthiest among us is unlikely to see 100 years of age. But why? According to expert David Vilchez, professor of Medicine at the University of Cologne, the key to longevity can be found in our cells.

Although the heart is an endurance machine, like the rest of the body, it too is affected by age. Renate Schnabel explains what can be done to keep your heart ticking.

Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, and yet 9 900 000 people fell ill with the disease in 2020 and 1.5 million died. This episode is looking at what the EU is doing to curb the spread and improve our understanding of the nature of the illness.

From COVID to monkeypox, zoonotic viruses are a constant threat. But how do diseases jump between animals, and into humans? We asked our expert María José Ruiz-López.

The EU-funded "4.UNCAN.eu" project has issued a call for European cancer research experts to set a strategic agenda of research priorities in cancer.

Researchers are demonstrating how robotic technologies can help produce higher quality products more efficiently while also benefiting the environment and reducing farmers’ exposure to harmful chemicals.

Bones can be repaired and sometimes replaced with metal prostheses. So what’s stopping us reinforcing our skeletons? We asked expert Alisa Buchman.

A fifth clinical site helps further the EU-funded EUPHORIA project’s research on non-invasive monitoring of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).