Synchronizing your daily activities to your circadian rhythm could help you improve your performance on a variety of cognitive tasks − and even influence diagnosis of cognitive disorders.

The Nordic countries are no strangers to the long, dark winter. Despite little to no daylight — plus months of frigid temperatures — people who live in northern Europe and above the Arctic Circle have learned how to cope mentally and physically with the annual onset of the winter blues, which can begin as early as October and last into April for some. The winter solstice will occur Dec. 21, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Spiritual leaders’ own pain often goes unnoticed as they tend to their community’s challenges.

The nascent LGBTQ+ rights movement and the Christian right each strongly shaped the early years of HIV/AIDS, a historian explains.

The following is the transcript of the interview with former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who now serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healthcare, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Dec. 7, 2025.

Synchronizing your daily activities to your circadian rhythm could help you improve your performance on a variety of cognitive tasks − and even influence diagnosis of cognitive disorders.

The outbreak blamed on "gym exposure" is relatively small, but it has helped push cases tied to the Legionella bacteria to a 10-year high in Florida.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding recommendations on the hepatitis B vaccine.

As it is now, the transplant system treats kidneys from all Black donors as if they are at higher risk for failing, even though only some are.

Dec 6 () - Regeneron said on Saturday its experimental cancer combination therapy was effective and showed disappearance of the disease in previously untreated patients with ​a type of blood cancer in the first part of a late-stage ‌trial. The trial, which enrolled 22 patients, studied safety and preliminary efficacy of the company's therapy, odronextamab, in combination ‌with chemotherapy in patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma or DLBCL.

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Vaccine makers expressed concern on Friday's decision by a U. advisory panel to scrap its long-standing recommendation that all infants ​receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a shift that public health experts fear will ‌undermine decades of public health advances.

The health department told a state official the outbreak may be linked to a gym.

Hospitals for decades have provided babies their first hepatitis B vaccine. Now doctors' offices might administer the shot.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding recommendations on the hepatitis B vaccine.

The decision undoes a highly effective 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the U.S.

The committee called for "individual decision-making."

"The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective," said U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a Republican and a physician. "This makes America sicker."

The CDC's vaccine advisory panel meets Thursday and Friday to discuss recommendations for the hepatitis B vaccine and the schedule of childhood shots.

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Vaccine advisers to U. were expected to vote on Thursday on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, a move that would leave the choice to parents in most cases.

The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel once again delayed an expected vote on hepatitis B vaccines, after a chaotic meeting rife with misinformation.

ATLANTA - Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delayed until Friday a vote to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get the hepatitis B vaccine in what would be the most sweeping revision to the childhood vaccine schedule under Kennedy. The advisers heard presentations in the morning - including from two prominent vaccine critics recently hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - casting doubt on the safety and necessity of

A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer, researchers reported Wednesday. HPV, or human papillomavirus, is very common and spread through sex. Most HPV infections clear up on their own but some linger, causing cancers that appear years later, including cervical cancer in women and rarer cancers in both women and men.

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer. Federal health recommendations now suggest that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection in their first day of life, but U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee on Thursday is expected to change that — contradicting previous public health advice. It's not clear exactly what the committee is consider

There is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of the potential for metal fragment contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said that the various shredded cheeses were recalled by Great Lakes Cheese Co. The cheese products are sold under private store-brand labels at several retailers, including Target, Walmart and Aldi. The recall includes various cheeses such as mozzarella, Italian style, pizza styl

The agency’s plan to change the well-established process for safety testing vaccines is not realistic.

A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer, researchers reported Wednesday. HPV, or human papillomavirus, is very common and spread through sex. Most HPV infections clear up on their own but some linger, causing cancers that appear years later, including cervical cancer in women and rarer cancers in both women and men.

SAN DIEGO Dec 2 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk in 2020 launched pivotal trials of its GLP-1 drug semaglutide in Alzheimer's patients based on studies ​in humans, animals and real-world findings, a top company executive said on Tuesday, acknowledging ‌criticism that Novo's studies had design flaws. Although the trials failed to show statistically significant slowing of cognitive decline in patients given the drug,‌ "we still think it was the right decision.

Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots on the childhood immunization schedule are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders, the newly appointed chair of the group told The Washington Post. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist and critic of coronavirus vaccination who recently took over as chair of the influential vaccine panel, s

Coulier shared that he was cancer-free back in March.

Those driven by both heart and mind help the most people, even far beyond their own circle.