Type 2 diabetes can seem like a daunting diagnosis because it invariably means you have to change aspects of your diet to control your blood sugar levels. This is to compensate for the body’s inability to produce enough insulin, a hormone that is normally responsible for regulating blood sugar in your blood. While bad dietary […]
Fingernails are kind of weird, but they can hint at lots of underlying health issues, and if there are any sudden changes in them, it can be a major cause for concern. If you’ve wondered about soft fingernails in the past or why you have spoon-shaped fingernails, you might be missing another possible indicator of trouble: their color. […]
British children’s lunches are just as unhealthy as they were a decade ago with fewer than 2% getting a balanced pack-up from their parents Analysis shows 1.6% of eight and nine-year-olds have balanced packed lunches Amount of sugar in lunch boxes has fallen, but so too has vitamins and minerals Despite school dinner reforms in […]
Non-profit organization The Sequoia Project has published a new document that provides actionable implementation guidance and feedback in anticipation of the new information blocking rules, expected soon from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Section 4004 of the 21st Century Cures Act prohibits “information blocking” and authorizes the U.S. Department of Health […]
The Chinese government has quarantined Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people, and it has restricted travel to and from several other cities, including Beijing, to contain the coronavirus that has sickened more than 800 people and killed at least 25 as of Jan. 23, 2020. A case has been reported in Seattle, and […]
For more than a decade, the 35-year-old has been suffering with a dodgy knee after a football match went terribly wrong. In an interview with OK! magazine, he said: “The last 10 years have been hard work, and most days I would get up and my knee would be in bits and I couldn’t move.” […]
A new study shows drinking low-fat milk—both nonfat and 1% milk—is significantly associated with less aging in adults. Research on 5,834 U.S. adults by Brigham Young University exercise science professor Larry Tucker, Ph.D., found people who drink low-fat milk experience several years less biological aging than those who drink high-fat (2% and whole) milk. “It […]
US officials announce BAN on flavored e-cigarette cartridges in an effort to combat the youth vaping epidemic On Thursday, US Food and Drug Administration officials announced that all companies must cease to sell sweet flavored or mint vaping cartridges It will allow companies to seek approval of these devices, but so far none have been green […]
HPV vaccine is ‘near perfect’ as analysis shows the jab is up to 99.8% effective at protecting against cervical cancer-causing viruses An expert at King’s College London analysed eight years of data on the vaccine He found that it was 97.6 per cent at protecting population from HPV infection Protection was best between five and […]
According to the researchers, the results highlight the importance of overweight or obesity in early adulthood as risk factors for adult diabetes. A new study has found that longer and sustained exposure to obesity is linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Published in the journal Diabetologia, the research team from Indiana University […]
