Mother's breast implants 'fall out' after botched surgery in Turkey

Mother’s £6,000 breast implants ‘fall out of her chest’ after botched surgery at a cut-price Turkish clinic ‘promoted by celebrities’ Angelica Isaksen, 27, from Stockholm, Sweden, had second boob job last June Within days her right breast ballooned, turned red and began throbbing in pain After two weeks the scar was bursting open and implant […]

Vaping 'could be WORSE than smoking for lung disease', study finds

Vaping is just as likely as smoking to cause persistent lung infections ‘because e-cigarette vapour causes bacteria to become more harmful’ E-cigarette vapour containing nicotine caused harmful bacteria to form, grow  Researchers found it had similar effect on bugs as traditional cigarette smoke  Warn devices could be even more harmful as users take deeper, longer […]

The Great Millennial Blood Pressure Problem

You know the guy. You work with him, or you’re friends with him, or maybe you even are him. He’s youngish. Fit-ish. Flirting with fasting and CBD. Always tracking his steps, his sleep, his heart rate, his meditation streaks. But these trackers overlook one metric: blood pressure. Those two numbers measure how well your blood […]

Eating too much—not exercising too little—may be at core of weight gain, study finds

Forager-horticulturalist children in the Amazon rainforest do not spend more calories in their everyday lives than children in the United States, but they do spend calories differently. That finding provides clues for understanding and reversing global trends in obesity and poor metabolic health, according to a Baylor University researcher in a study published in Science […]

A medical insight in Michelangelo’s David, ‘hiding in plain sight’

Michelangelo’s David is perhaps the world’s most famous statue, gazed upon by millions over centuries. And yet it’s only this year that an American doctor has spotted an anatomical insight made by the artist—one that’s passed without notice on David for more than 500 years. In the vast majority of sculptures, and in the everyday […]

Here’s a bitter pill to swallow: Artificial sweeteners may be doing more harm than good

A $2.2 billion industry to help people lose weight through artificial sweeteners may be contributing to type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the University of South Australia. A recently published review led by UniSA Professor Peter Clifton reveals that people who use low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) are more likely to gain weight, the exact opposite […]

3 Reasons to Give Up Alcohol

The sober curious movement, or taking a break from alcohol, has become one of the year’s biggest trends. And while you know that beer isn’t exactly green juice, you may not be sure of why you should even give up alcohol. In a new video, Facts Verse explains possible benefits of giving up alcohol for […]

French startup Iktos and pharma firm Almirall announce research collaboration in AI for new drug design

French artificial intelligence (AI) startup Iktos has announced a collaboration with global skin-health focused pharmaceutical company Almirall. The partnership will see Almirall use Iktos generative modelling technology to optimise advanced compounds, bringing speed and efficiency to the drug discovery process. WHY IT MATTERS The pharma industry is increasingly turning to AI to accelerate the traditionally […]