Ask a Doctor is PEOPLE’s series getting you the answers to the medical, health and personal questions that you always wanted to know but weren’t sure who to ask. When you're in a relationship, you often share a lot of things: your bed, French fries, dessert, deep secrets, and, occasionally, health concerns. While sometimes sharing […]
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to guide a medical device into the body. The milestone brings closer the prospect of an intelligent robotic system being able to guide instruments to precise locations in the body to take biopsies or allow internal tissues to be examined. […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. With winter fast approaching and the threat of a second wave and lockdown creeping up, many are worried about how to tell the difference between the common cold, the flu and COVID […]
Being able to grow old and die in one’s own home is something people want, including those who live alone. Behind the life situation of the latter one finds many different relationship constellations and support networks. As soon as their need for help and care becomes more pronounced, non-kin carers such as friends or neighbors […]
Virologists at the KU Leuven Rega Institute have been working on two lines of SARS-CoV-2 research: searching for a vaccine to prevent infection, and testing existing drugs to see which one can reduce the amount of virus in infected people. To test the efficacy of the vaccine and antivirals preclinically, the researchers use hamsters. The […]
Samantha Lee/Business Insider It's almost impossible that your lifestyle hasn't changed during the coronavirus pandemic, and small tweaks can result in weight gain. Don't beat yourself up for this though: It's been an incredibly tough time for everyone, so keep that in perspective. If you want to get a handle on your weight gain, that's […]
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as part of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, have entered into an agreement to facilitate access to future Lilly therapeutic antibodies under development for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, to […]
Roughly, five lakh people die annually in India due to the lack of an organ donor but with less than one per million people opting to donate," says Dr Veerabhadra Gupta, medical advisor at Bangalore Kidney Foundation, Bengaluru. The latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati hosted by Amitabh Bachchan saw special Karamveer contestants actor Reteish […]
Right now, it feels as though our world is closing in on us. Where we used to move from packed train carriage to spread out offices to vast restaurants, we are now limited to the confines of our homes, which play host to our typing, eating, exercising and, somehow, sleeping. That means that the lines […]
For many, the moment you turn 17 is the time to get that green provisional licence and hit the road, usually via the McDonald’s drive-thru. Learning to drive is seen as a rite of passage, marking a long-awaited transition to adulthood and a new sense of independence and responsibility. Yet, while many of my peers […]
