We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The secret to a long life expectancy may lay in the Okinawa diet. The diet refers to the traditional eating patterns of people living on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Their diet […]
A new study suggests that expanding routine newborn screening to include a metabolic vulnerability profile could lead to earlier detection of life-threatening complications in babies born preterm. The study led by researchers at the UC San Francisco researchers was published online in Nature Pediatric Research. The new method, which was developed at UCSF, offers valuable […]
SUNDAY, Oct. 11, 2020 – – COVID-19 may change the look of Halloween this year, but dressing up and indulging in some sweets is all part of the fun, even if your kids can’t go door to door. And experts say one night of eating candy won’t have a big effect on your teeth if […]
Arthritis causes pain and inflammation in joints – affecting more than 10 million people in the UK. Here are two remedies that could help ease sore symptoms. Research conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital surveyed arthritis patients suffering from chronic pain. The majority of respondents stated “changes in the weather had an effect on their […]
Female surgeons at a large academic medical center perform less complex surgical procedures than their male counterparts, according to a new study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). This study, published in Annals of Surgery, is one of the first to measure the problem of underemployment among female surgeons in the United States, which […]
Can mosquitoes carry COVID-19 and infect another person? Dr. Manny Alvarez answers if mosquitoes can be a carrier of coronavirus and transmit the illness to another person A Chicago resident died of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus. The death marks the first West Nile virus-related fatality in the state this year, Illinois health officials announced […]
Neck gaiters DO work, study finds: Popular face coverings previously ruled ‘counterproductive’ blocked ‘100%’ of large infectious droplets in new tests A previous Duke University study found that fleece neck gaiters may actually spread more infectious particles by splitting them up and scattering them New unpublished Virginia Tech research suggests gaiters work just as well […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Diabetes is a common condition that affects more than four million people in the UK, and 90 percent of all cases are caused by type 2 diabetes. You could be lower your […]
Could something as simple as a certain type of sugar water be medicine for perforated bones, and even bone marrow cancer itself? Inside our bodies are some jellyfish-like cells that actually eat away at our bones. Every year, they eat about ten percent of the bone mass in our body. Fortunately, other cells usually follow […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Coronavirus has now spread to more than 36 million people around the globe, of which more than one million people have died. According to recent research some painkillers may aggravate the deadly […]
