Shaving cream is meant to moisturize, protect and support your skin as you remove excess hair. Considering that shaving also happens to exfoliate the skin, what you use throughout this process is important for your shave’s effectiveness as well as the health of your cells. So, if you hop into the shower only to realize […]
CDC meeting to vote on who gets coronavirus vaccine first Frontline healthcare workers, elderly Americans among those predicted to be prioritized; Laura Ingle reports. Though the first case of the coronavirus wasn’t identified in the U.S. until January, a new study suggests that the novel disease was present earlier in the country than first thought. […]
Lindsey Bishop, 40, first noticed a strange ‘tugging feeling’ in her right breast back in October 2016, when she was working out to lose weight after having her daughter, Ivy. The working mum, of Altrincham, Greater Manchester assumed the nagging pain was just due to a badly fitting sports bra. Lindsey, who also has an […]
A blood test already available to GPs in the UK is more predictive of ovarian cancer than previously thought and could also help pick up other forms of cancer, according to new research published in PLOS Medicine today (Wednesday) and funded by Cancer Research UK and NIHR. This study involving the University of Exeter was […]
Stress, dehydration, and excess alcohol are all well-known causes of a headache. But there are other, less obvious reasons for pounding head pain—as one Australian woman discovered. After she experienced a headache for more than a week, doctors found tapeworm larvae in her brain. The unidentified woman is the subject of a new case study, […]
Young adults and adolescents who are prescribed opioids for the first time may be at a slightly greater risk of developing a substance-related problem later in life, according to a new study co-authored by Indiana University researchers. However, the risk may not be as high as previously thought. The study was published today in JAMA […]
For the past 15 years, Laura Teare-Jones, 30, has dealt with cyclical bouts of what she thought was depression. When it strikes, socialising with friends becomes very difficult, watching a moving advert on TV can trigger meltdowns, and she often experiences cluster migraines that leave her bedridden. Laura, of Deeside in Flintshire, north Wales has […]
Back in 2009, I went on a 10-day vacation to Barcelona with my best girlfriends from school. I was 19, and being in this vibrant city with my girls, the trip was filled with drinking and partying. Right after I got back home to the UK, I started having symptoms of what I thought was […]
A team of researchers from Stanford University in the U.S. and Southern University of Science and Technology in China has found evidence that suggests metastasis of cancerous tumors may get its start much earlier than previously thought. In their paper published in the journal Nature Genetics, the group describes their whole-exome sequencing analysis of multiple […]
