If there’s one thing a new parent wants, it’s another pair of hands to help out with the child care. For one family in Hong Kong it wasn’t a new pair of hands they got but a new set of paws. Chiko the one-year-old Shiba Inu was caught on camera rocking his human baby brother …

About 1 in 7 adults in the U.S. has chronic kidney disease, in which the kidneys are damaged or can’t properly filter blood. This can lead to excess waste remaining in the body, kidney failure and the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant, and raise one’s risk of dying from heart disease and other …

Chemotherapy has a lot of terrible side effects and that’s partly because the drugs being used to fight cancer also attack healthy cells. Figuring out a way to deliver drugs to tumors without affecting healthy tissue is a challenge and a problem that researchers are trying to solve. One group working on this problem, New …

Children who eat fish just once a week have higher IQs and sleep better, new research reveals. Consuming seafood at least once every seven days improves youngsters’ IQ scores by 4.8 points compared to those who never eat it, a study found today. As The Daily Mail reports, frequently eating fish also makes children less …

The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year—unless you get sidelined with a sore throat, runny nose, or something worse. “Your immune system is weaker because you’re stressed, skipping workouts, and not eating right, and then you’re confronted with all the germs at crowded stores and big parties,” explains Nieca Goldberg, MD, medical …