Despite decades of public health campaigns, skin cancer remains a major threat to health in Australia, with more cases diagnosed each year than all other cancers combined. Skin cancer rates remain high and sunburn is all too common in Australia. Our research looks at how best to inform people about the hazards of ultraviolet (UV) […]
There’s fat all over your body, not just between your ribcage and your waistband. The adipose tissue that resides under your skin is a connective tissue called subcutaneous fat, and it sort of jiggles when you flick it or pinch it. But there’s another kind of fat that’s harder to spot unless you happen to […]
Every bоdуbuildеr aims for ripped аbѕ, considering they’re thе hallmark of having a Godly body. Nоt mаnу оf uѕ wеrе blеѕѕеd with thе gеnеtiс mаkеup that gives us six расk abs withоut having tо wоrk fоr thеm. If you want to get there, you can’t just do endless аbѕ еxеrсiѕеѕ – you need to give […]
Dozens of people converged on the cobblestone streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro for its traditional Pedra do Sal samba party—the first since the pandemic began—and it seemed Brazil was returning to normal. Among those dancing Monday were Luana Jatobá and two friends, all of whom overcame COVID-19. As a nurse technician caring for coronavirus […]
It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? When coronavirus first hit the United States in March, the idea of living in quarantine lockdown – as people in China, Italy, and other countries were doing at the time — seemed absurd, like an episode of Black Mirror. And yet, here we are. With work transforming from just another […]
US surpasses 5M coronavirus cases More than 97,000 children tested positive for coronavirus in last two weeks of July; Bryan Llenas reports on the latest. The U.S. reached five million coronavirus cases on Sunday, continuing to lead the world as the nation with the highest number of infections. The milestone came fewer than three weeks since […]
Screening for symptoms of COVID-19 and self-quarantine are good at preventing sick people from spreading the coronavirus. But more and more evidence is suggesting that people without symptoms are spreading the virus too. Monica Gandhi, an infectious diseases physician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, explains what is known about asymptomatic spread […]
COVID-19 has created a new norm for human interaction: social distancing, improving hygiene with soap and hand sanitizer, wearing a mask and quarantining. But what does this mean for the more than 2 million people held in local, state and federal jails and prisons? As a criminal justice scholar who has written about incarcerated populations, […]
Infectious disease outbreaks have killed more people than hurricanes, wildfires or earthquakes. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history, with death estimates ranging as high as 50 million worldwide. Almost 700,000 deaths occurred in the U.S.; in some cases, entire families died. Because these events are so outside our understanding […]
Another SPIKE in coronavirus cases in China with 5,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours as death toll nears 1,400 in China China has reported another sharp rise in the number of people infected with the killer coronavirus, with the death toll now nearing 1,400. The National Health Commission said 121 more deaths were recorded […]
