The European Union reopened its borders Wednesday to visitors from 15 countries—but not the virus-stricken United States, where a top health official warned the country is headed in the “wrong direction” as cases spike in multiple states. US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci said that the United States could see 100,000 new COVID-19 cases a […]
How much saturated fat is safe? Saturated fats are found in many foods, are generally regarded but as unhealthy. You increase the fat levels in the blood and the “bad” LDL cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease increases. However, such fats are generally always harmful, or there is also a safe for consumption? A […]
Researchers say a clinical trial has shown the commonly prescribed drug allopurinol isn’t effective in slowing kidney disease. Experts say the trial results may make them rethink their strategy of trying to lower uric acid levels to treat kidney disease. About 37 million people in the United States have chronic kidney disease, but many are […]
COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests have drawn attention to systemic racism and the inequalities in healthcare that result from it. For this Special Feature, Medical News Today asked its experts, “What do you wish people knew about health inequity?” We share their answers below. At MNT, we have zoomed in on some of […]
(HealthDay)—There is not a significant association between allergic rhinitis and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a review published online June 15 in the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. Nipith Charoenngam, from Mahidol University in Bangkok, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of studies investigating the association between allergic rhinitis and the […]
Mark Wahlberg is learning new things about himself every day. On Monday, the Spenser Confidential actor shared that he recently went to get tested for allergies and learned that he was sensitive to many substances. In a picture shared on Instagram, Wahlberg, 49, revealed the results of his allergy scratch test, an allergist-administered test that determines […]
When I was in my early 20s, living in Paraguay, my friend Tamara used to mention her friend Andrés with relative frequency. Every now and then, when I enquired what she was up to, she’d tell me Andrés was visiting, by which I understood that she was busy. Although Spanish wasn’t my first language, I’d […]
The key to swift treatments to cure the pain of rheumatoid arthritis has been found in the joints of people with the condition who are in long-term remission. The study—published today in Nature Medicine and led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with Fondazione A.Gemelli IRCCS in Italy and the Versus Arthritis funded Research […]
Researchers at the USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, the USC Institute for Technology and Medical Systems and the USC School of Pharmacy are developing an antimicrobial fluid to bolster the body’s first-line defenses against COVID-19. The biocompatible coating is intended to block the virus from entering the body through membranes […]
The team was co-led by May Griffith, a researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, which is affiliated with Université de Montréal and is part of the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. The results of this multinational project have just been published in the journal Science Advances. “Our work has led to an effective and accessible solution called […]
