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Ultra-processed food significantly raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes, according to two studies that one expert says should serve as a wake-up call for governments worldwide.
Global consumption of heavily processed items such as cereals, protein bars, fizzy drinks, ready me... | Nutrition Research |
The government in England should increase its use of the private sector to tackle the NHS backlog, Labour says.
It said as many as 300,000 patients have missed out on treatment since it called for greater use of private clinics in January 2022.
And the party said it was unjust that the lack of action meant only those w... | Health Policy |
What to know about aspartame following the WHO’s assessment
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) new assessment of the safety of the common artificial sweetener aspartame has ignited a debate over just what consumers should do.
Two groups tied to the WHO — the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the... | Nutrition Research |
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
The popular medications Ozempic and Saxenda — both made by Novo Nordisk in Denmark — are under investigation after a small number of users experienced an ... | Drug Discoveries |
Up to 9,000 cases of lung cancer could be caught sooner or prevented under a new screening programme set to be rolled out acroos the country.
The scheme could provide almost one million scans and earlier treatment.
It is set to cost £270m annually once fully established and will use patients' GP records for those age... | Disease Research |
Justin Bieber shared an update about his health after revealing he had been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, causing him to have facial paralysis. The 28-year-old performer posted on Instagram Monday, telling fans that while he continues to experience discomfort, each day is getting better, and he is finding solace... | Disease Research |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For months, Carlton Clemons endured crippling pain from a rotting wisdom tooth. He couldn’t sleep, barely ate and relied on painkillers to get by.
The 67-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, could not afford to see a dentist on the $1,300-a-month his family gets in Social Security and disability paym... | Health Policy |
TAMPA, Fla. — When a hemp dispensary in this Florida city started to stock edibles with certain mushroom extracts last year, state regulators quickly ordered it to stop selling the items.
The shop had been advertising fruit-flavored gummies and other products containing tiny doses of mood-altering chemicals from the mu... | Drug Discoveries |
Spent coffee grounds may protect brain from neurodegenerative disease
With around six million tons of spent coffee grounds discarded each year, much of that dumped into landfills, there's growing interest in repurposing the everyday by-product for other uses, such as creating new sustainable materials.
University of Te... | Disease Research |
Brian Hurley, left, and Niall Hickey are two bar owners in different areas of the province who have been focused on training their staff on how to use naloxone kits. (Melissa Tobin/CBC News)
For Brian Hurley, co-owner of Iron Rock Brewery in Labrador City, training his staff on how to use naloxone is just one piece in ... | Drug Discoveries |
The UK had one of the worst increases in death rates of major European economies during the Covid pandemic, BBC analysis has found.
Death rates in the UK were more than 5% higher on average each year of the pandemic than in the years just before it, largely driven by a huge death toll in the first year.
That was above ... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
For people who have previously had a heart attack, taking a daily aspirin could reduce their risk of a repeat cardiac event or stroke, according to a recent Danish study.
The findings were presented at the ESC Congress 2023 in Amsterdam this week.
"Our findings support current clinical guidelines on aspirin therapy fol... | Disease Research |
Cheap medicines prevented migraine as well as expensive ones
A new study sheds light on what works best to prevent migraine attacks, and surprisingly, cheaper medicines worked as well as the expensive ones.
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Migraine is more than just a headache. Often the pain is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, light sens... | Drug Discoveries |
The move, if completed, would have major implications for the marijuana industry and, potentially, for Biden's reelection bid.
Biden announced the schedule review along with a series of marijuana-related pardons last October, in time for the midterm elections. Industry advocates say the rescheduling could be finalized ... | Drug Discoveries |
These doctors are trying to lower hospitals' carbon footprintAround the country, health care workers continue to grapple with their industry's massive carbon footprint. In Pittsburgh, doctors formed Clinicians for Climate Action to address the problem.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center campus. Doctors at UPMC... | Global Health |
When she prescribes the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, Dr. Angela Fitch sends patients on a quest she likens to “The Hunger Games."
They will have to call drugstores over several days to find one with the properly sized first dose. Then they'll do that again for their second dose, and probably the third. And that’s o... | Drug Discoveries |
The White House launched a plan Tuesday to counter the so-called "zombie drug" that is growing in popularity across the country, but stopped short of mandating a new classification of the substance that would subject it to stricter regulations.
Instead, the Office of National Drug Control Policy plan emphasized the imp... | Drug Discoveries |
Covid’s Back. Who’s Most Likely to Get It Again?
A new study of prison populations shows vaccination can ward off infection — up to a point. Masks and ventilation could make the difference.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A new study is offering data to back one of the core assumptions about the spread of Covid: The intensity o... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
In a sharp reversal, U.S. intelligence agencies now say none of the hundreds of mysterious illnesses that afflicted and in some cases incapacitated U.S. personnel around the globe can be linked to the use of a weapon by a U.S. adversary.
An assessment released Wednesday, based on what intelligence officials said was an... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Patients have been left waiting up to 65 hours for an ambulance in England - while one patient waited in the back of an ambulance for 40 hours outside A&E.
Data collected by Labour from Freedom of Information requests show long waits for ambulances and people waiting hours outside hospitals waiting to be admitted to A... | Health Policy |
There is a pond in the park near Emily Barley’s home in Wentworth, South Yorkshire where, when she was pregnant, Barley used to imagine bringing her daughter to play.
“I’d picture her as a baby on a blanket, gazing up at the sky,” says Barley, 34. “I could see her as a toddler, splashing round in her wellies and giggli... | Women’s Health |
UK Healthcare Horror: After over 6,500 rapes, sexual assaults in hospitals since 2019, nurses to wear body cams
The Department of Health will work closely with National Health Service (NHS) to deploy the measure. Other steps that will be put in place to reduce the cases of sexual abuse in hospitals include AI data proc... | Health Policy |
Newhave accelerated for a fourth straight week, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data now shows.
A total of 10,320 patients in the U.S. were newly hospitalized with COVID-19 for the week ending August 5, according to the figures published Monday, an increase of 14.3% from the week before.
Levels remain far be... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
- It's been 10 months since the Food and Drug Administration first announced a nationwide shortage of Adderall — and the supply strain could potentially worsen in the months ahead.
- Some experts noted they're concerned about market conditions as children, who are commonly affected by ADHD, head back to school.
- It's ... | Drug Discoveries |
When you think of stress, it probably brings negative emotions to mind. But some stress is good for you, like the anticipation you feel when you start a new relationship or job. It can fuel excitement and make you want to do and achieve more. Stress can also help you be prepared to face challenges or respond to dangero... | Stress and Wellness |
She was dressed in a cartoon-spangled onesie, while he wore a tiny denim jacket and wide-legged pants. It was a bluebird day in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and I was eavesdropping on the couple at a crosswalk.“Sobriety is a big thing these days,” she said.“Yeah,” he said. “For babies.”This article appears in the June 2022 ... | Mental Health Treatments |
Image source, Sophie KitcherImage caption, Sophie says that she couldn't be more proud of her baby son Ralphie The mother of a three-month-old baby with blood cancer said the way he has coped with chemotherapy has been inspirational.Sophie Kitcher, from Ware, Hertfordshire, said Ralphie was being "incredibly strong".Th... | Disease Research |
It was a moment Meagan James never expected to witness.
A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York had performed the world’s first successful whole-eye transplant in a living person: her husband, Aaron James.
After an accident at work led to the loss of his left eye and part of his face, Aaron was given a new wi... | Medical Innovations |
People from minority ethnic backgrounds no longer have a significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than white Britons, for the first time in the pandemic.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are now substantially lower for all ethnic groups compared with e... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases.
The global health agency's ... | Global Health |
Roughly 14 percent of the global population has been infected with Lyme disease, and its prevalence is only growing, according to a study published Monday. Researchers said the study, which was published in the journal BMJ Global Health, is a first-of-its-kind analysis that examined more than three decades worth of stu... | Disease Research |
Will robots rule the world? Maybe.
But right now I'm watching one carry out orthopaedic surgery, and it's not frightening - it's fascinating.
Scrubbed in and masked up, Sky News was invited to see a robotic arm assist with a full knee replacement at Walsall Manor Hospital.
It's the first time that this type of techn... | Medical Innovations |
A gene mutation which increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer has been linked to people with Orkney heritage.
Scientists from the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh have found that one in one hundred people with grandparents from the islands off the north-eastern coast of Scotland, have a mutation of the g... | Disease Research |
Staff sickness in the NHS in England has reached record levels.
Figures for 2022 show an absence rate - the proportion of days lost - of 5.6%, meaning the NHS lost the equivalent of nearly 75,000 staff to illness.
This is higher than during the peak pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 - and a 29% rise on the 2019 rate.
Men... | Health Policy |
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a Time” by MKRNYILG... | Medical Innovations |
The World Health Organization still does not have key data from China about the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak, putting the world in jeopardy, says Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the group’s Covid-19 technical lead and head of its program on emerging diseases.
“The lack of data disclosure is simply inexcusable,” Van Kerkhov... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 pandemic may have originated with two separate leaks at Chinese labs doing risky “gain of function” research, a Republican senator stated Monday.
A report released by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) raises the prospect that millions of lives worldwide could have been saved — including those of mo... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
NEW YORK -- Fed up with hundreds of bootleg pot shops, New York launched new inspections this month aimed at getting rid of the unlicensed stores that are troubling the state's fledgling legal marijuana market. “You will be caught,” the governor vowed.
But anyone who expects to see the stores shape up or shut down migh... | Health Policy |
As if excess salt, fat and several types of sugar weren’t bad enough, the ingredient lists of much ultra-processed food often end with a befuddling number of additives. Either written as E numbers or given their full chemical names, this information is unsettlingly opaque to non-experts, prompting many of us to just re... | Nutrition Research |
Photography by Akhtar Soomro Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield and Gloria Dickie Filed June 14, 2022, 05:00 a.m. GMT Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth. Her 17-year-old neighbour Waderi, who gave ... | Global Health |
WASHINGTON -- The leading decongestant used by millions of Americans looking for relief from a stuffy nose is likely no better than a dummy pill, according to government experts who reviewed the latest research on the long-questioned drug ingredient.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Tue... | Drug Discoveries |
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: “Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips.”
Owner Waverly Willis has given out strips for years... | Drug Discoveries |
Anxiety is when you feel tense and worried. It's natural to have these feelings from time to time. But if you feel this way often, it can be an anxiety disorder. It can cause intense attacks that speed up your heart rate, raise your blood pressure, and make you sweaty or dizzy. Anxiety can also affect your sleep.
Insom... | Mental Health Treatments |
Within the last two months, four locally acquired cases of malaria were, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking the first time in 20 years that the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been transmitted within the United States.
"Locally acquired cases" mean the infections were not ... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Findings from a recent study suggest that mindfulness meditation may reduce interference from emotional distractions, particularly positive emotional distractions, in various perceptual load conditions. In the study, which was published in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, meditators showed improved attentional con... | Mental Health Treatments |
A study spearheaded by Oregon State University has shown why certain polyunsaturated fatty acids work to combat a dangerous liver condition, opening a new avenue of drug research for a disease that currently has no FDA-approved medications.
Scientists led by Oregon State's Natalia Shulzhenko, Andrey Morgun and Donald J... | Disease Research |
The Busted musician tells the BBC the "ripple effect of addiction is huge" on families and loved ones.
When Matt Willis is going through a relapse, he describes it as a "complete loss of control".
Something switches in his brain when he drinks alcohol or takes drugs - and his only priority is consuming more. "Something... | Mental Health Treatments |
Doctors are cautiously hopeful about a new multiple sclerosis therapy after finding that injecting stem cells into patients’ brains was safe and potentially protective against further damage from the disease.
The small, early stage trial was only able to assess whether injecting cells directly into the brain was well t... | Medical Innovations |
We may live in a largely secular society, but the Protestant work ethic is still alive and strong. The “lazy” and “entitled” millennials, we have been told, are workshy and self-indulgent. They spend too much and save too little – behaviour that is not only harming their future prospects, but those of the world economy... | Stress and Wellness |
A 14-year-old boy has been named America's Top Young Scientist for developing an affordable bar of soap that treats skin cancer.
Heman Bekele, a ninth grader at W.T. Woodson High School in Annandale, Virginia went head-to-head with nine other finalists in the 2023 3M Young Scientists Challenge and took home the $25,00... | Medical Innovations |
Americans who have a tooth pulled or another painful dental procedure in the United States today are far less likely to get opioid painkillers than they were just a few years ago, a new study shows.
That's good news, since research shows that opioids are not necessary for most dental procedures.
But the COVID-19 pandem... | Drug Discoveries |
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recommended easing restrictions on marijuana, a department spokesperson said on Wednesday, following a review request from the Biden Administration last year. Reuters reports: The scheduling recommendation for marijuana was provided to the Drug Enforcement Agen... | Drug Discoveries |
Sometimes there is a bleakly effective logic to underinvesting in public services. If they survive, then great, the money was saved. If they fail, then even better, because privatisation is here and ready to pick up the pieces. A classic example of this strategy is the NHS.
Junior doctors are working longer and harder,... | Health Policy |
Production of biological substances for medicine using genetically engineered yeast cells shows new promising results in basic research from an international team of researchers. In 2022, the researchers attracted international attention by programming the longest-ever biosynthetic pathway -- or 'assembly line' -- into... | Drug Discoveries |
A Texas woman who nearly lost her life after giving birth was reunited at home this month with her now-4-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son.
Krystina Pacheco, 29, of Pleasanton, Texas, gave birth to her daughter Amelia on Oct. 24, 2022, in what she described as an uneventful C-section delivery.
Two days later, on th... | Medical Innovations |
If you've just been diagnosed with psoriasis, you may have a few questions about it. Here are answers to some of the more common ones people ask.
What's the difference between psoriasis and eczema?
To an untrained eye, these conditions may seem alike. But while they're both skin diseases, they're not the same. In fact,... | Disease Research |
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Swap red meat for Quorn protein to improve heart health and reduce waist circumference, study finds
People looking to reduce their cholesterol and trim fat from around their waist could try swapping meat for Quorn protein, according to the findings from a new study by Northumbria University, Newcastle, ... | Nutrition Research |
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a birth control pill for use without a prescription for the first time in U.S. history this week.
- Opill will be available in major stores and online in early 2024, according to the manufacturer Perrigo.
- Women could face barriers to obtain Opill because health insuran... | Women’s Health |
Paxlovid is Pfizer's antiviral medication to treat COVID-19. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay/Illustration)When the antiviral medication Paxlovid was approved in 2021 to treat COVID-19, doctors began noticing a perplexing trend among some of the patients who took the medication: a rebound case of the virus. After treatment, so... | Drug Discoveries |
Scientists whose work on mRNA paved the way for first COVID-19 vaccines win Nobel Prize
Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the prospect of new treatments for a range of afflictions, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physi... | Vaccine Development |
‘Go after it’: GOP strategists say Republicans need to hit Biden on drug pricing
Republicans are working to persuade Americans that the Biden plan will stifle innovation and lead to price controls.
As President Joe Biden touts the first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price talks, Republicans are searching for their own m... | Health Policy |
A man left with life-changing injuries after being crushed by a horse while driving was only recognisable to family via his nose.
Ian Tilston was driving on the M56 from his home in Hawarden to Nantwich, Cheshire, when his car was crushed by a horse as he exited at junction 10.
As he drove down the slip road a car in f... | Medical Innovations |
Reports of chemical attacks on Iranian school girls are once again on the rise after a hiatus, leaving hundreds of young girls unable to breathe and hospitalized.
The unknown substance continues to impact girls while in class, according to The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) who is tracking and mapping the ... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
A new mother has said she hopes to raise awareness of a flesh-eating disease that nearly killed her.
Charleigh Chatterton, 27, gave birth to her daughter Alessia in Colchester on 22 April with no complications.
But six days later she was rushed back to hospital after developing a rash on her stomach.
Doctors diagnosed ... | Disease Research |
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, and vision loss, due to the loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), cannot currently be reversed with any treatment. Some studies have looked at replacing RGCs through cell transplants, but this process is still in the research and development stage and fraug... | Medical Innovations |
The chances of a person developing type 2 diabetes can increase even if they eat red meat just two times a week instead of an alternative option, researchers have said.
Replacing red meat with plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, may reduce the chances of developing the condition and would also help r... | Nutrition Research |
When White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced questions recently about calls for an administration office to tackle gun violence, she had an answer: Susan Rice is in charge. Rice, she said, is already leading a 12-person team from her perch atop the Domestic Policy Council to execute a government-wide eff... | Mental Health Treatments |
Circadian Clock Study Shows Why Jet Lag Wipes Us Out
Research has modeled the interactions between circadian clocks to investigate why jet lag leaves us fatigued.
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New research has modeled the interactions between our body’s circadian clocks to investigate ... | Medical Innovations |
- The European Union's drug regulator said it has broadened an investigation into the risk of suicidal thoughts among patients taking Novo Nordisk's Ozempic, Wegovy and Saxenda drugs to include other weight loss and diabetes medications.
- The agency didn't specify which additional drugs, known as GLP-1 agonists, are n... | Drug Discoveries |
Millions of people enter later life carrying an extra 10 to 15 pounds, weight they’ve gained after having children, developing joint problems, becoming less active, or making meals the center of their social lives.
Should they lose this modest extra weight to optimize their health? This question has come to the fore wi... | Nutrition Research |
A Washington woman who refused to treat her tuberculosis for at least two years has finally been taken into custody, local health officials reported this week. The woman repeatedly ignored court orders to seek treatment and stay away from others, even visiting a casino earlier this year. She is now being detained in a ... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
COVID-19 infections in the UK have climbed to their highest level since the beginning of the year, final official estimates of the prevalence of the virus have revealed.
While the trend is uncertain in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there are signs the virus is continuing to spread.
It marks the last time that... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
As a version of COVID-19’s omicron variant —the XBB.1.5 subvariant — grows more prevalent in some parts of the U.S., health experts say it likely escapes immune protection better than previous mutations, though it is still unclear whether it causes more severe illness. More than 80 percent of coronavirus cases in the ... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
How 3 Black women took on breast cancer in our failed health care system
More than 1,000 hours. That’s how long the two of us — both Black women doctors in Los Angeles — have spent in the chair of our friend and hairstylist Sharone.
It’s not easy to find a good stylist who understands Black hair, but Sharone has a gift... | Women’s Health |
At least 400 women are in the second week of a hunger strike in a high-security prison in Iraq's capital Baghdad, the BBC has learned.
They are in prison for being part of the Islamic State group, after what they say were unfair trials.
The group is said to include foreign nationals from Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukr... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
On a typical day, Eve* would wake up and start prodding at her body while still in bed. She would avoid catching sight of herself while showering, or while trying to find an outfit to best hide her body.
“The day would usually be spent at work thinking about what to eat or not to eat and worrying about how I appeared t... | Mental Health Treatments |
Montreal health authority investigating after surgery patient was left 'abandoned' in empty hospital ward
Health minister calls the incident 'unacceptable and disturbing'
A succession of errors led to a patient, who was still recovering from anesthesia and surgery, being abandoned on an empty floor without supervision ... | Health Policy |
By Judith Goldstein, OD, as told to Keri WigintonÂ
Geographic atrophy (GA) can be visually confusing.Â
People often tell me that one minute they see something, and the next minute they donât. For example, the word youâre reading might be âshe,â but you see only the âheâ part. Or $129 might look like $12 and then $129 w... | Disease Research |
"No leg, no excuse" - those are the words which will be on Matt Edwards' T-shirt when he climbs the highest mountain in Wales this weekend.
The amputee will scale Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) with his friend Jack Sharpe on Saturday, and wants to show people that you can achieve success in the face of adversity.
Mr Edwar... | Mental Health Treatments |
The arms race over the next generation of obesity drugs is continuing to heat up. This week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it was suing several pharmacies, spas, and wellness centers in the U.S. for allegedly selling unauthorized copycats of its blockbuster drug tirzepatide, which is expected to be formall... | Drug Discoveries |
A Biotech Slump Is Emptying Labs And Threatening Research On New Drugs
Sangamo Therapeutics Inc.’s cost cuts didn’t hurt just the roughly 162 US workers who lost their jobs this month. It’s also a blow to Jerry Walter, who’s lost five family members and suffered kidney, lung, hearing and heart damage from a rare diseas... | Drug Discoveries |
Image source, Jim McCallumImage caption, Retired headteacher Jim McCallum, pictured with his wife Margaret, said he felt 'incredibly lucky' to have been part of a medical trialCancer centres in Scotland are to receive £4m funding to help develop new experimental treatments.Glasgow's Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre ... | Medical Innovations |
The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press.
The numbers demonstrate the Food and Drug Administ... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Research on long-term memories has largely focused on the role of neurons -- the brain's nerve cells. However, in recent years, scientists are discovering that other cell types are also vital in memory formation and storage.
A new study, published in the journal Neuron, reveals the crucial role of vascular system cells... | Disease Research |
Image source, CHSSImage caption, Greig Brown has not worked and has struggled since he caught Covid in January 2021Health boards are avoiding publicising their long Covid services to avoid a rush of patients, an expert has claimed.Edward Duncan, a professor of applied health research, has been evaluating rehabilitation... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
New research in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the way people think and feel during their waking hours strongly related to the content and characteristics of their dreams during sleep. Specifically, dreams are most similar to thoughts that are unrelated to ongoing tasks (e.g. mind wandering), supporting the ... | Mental Health Treatments |
You can choose for the lamp to follow the natural sunrise and sunset times based on your location, which in most of the world changes a little day by day. Or you can set custom times in the app. I didn't want the lamp's sunset actually to begin at 7:30 pm every day, so I set my sunset to 9:30 pm. As night fell each day... | Stress and Wellness |
Giving birth to child who is unresponsive or struggling to breathe is a harrowing experience. The medical team must quickly cut the umbilical cord and then rush the baby to aid. But taking a few seconds to squeeze blood from the cord into an infant’s abdomen before cutting the cord could help with the infant’s recovery... | Medical Innovations |
A measles outbreak among dozens of unvaccinated children in Ohio has local health officials concerned about a deepening distrust of vaccines among some parents. With vaccination rates slipping around the country, more Americans are beginning to question the value of vaccine requirements for kids ― putting at risk a gro... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
58-year-old Lawrence Faucette has become a medical milestone this month, being only the second living person in the world to have received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig.
His doctors at the University at Maryland School of Medicine say that Faucette appears to be doing well and that his new heart is... | Medical Innovations |
A woman who was illegally sold a weight loss drug on social media told the BBC she ended up in A&E vomiting blood.
Maddy, 32, fell seriously ill after using an unlicensed version of semaglutide - the active ingredient in Ozempic - from Instagram.
A BBC investigation found unregulated sellers offering semaglutide as a m... | Drug Discoveries |
Gonorrhoea cases in England have resurged since the easing of Covid restrictions, health officials are warning people who are sexually active.
Condoms can stop the spread of this and other sexually transmitted infections.
Provisional data shows diagnoses in the first nine months of 2022 hit 56,327 - 21% higher than for... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Scotland's record on drugs is shameful and the latest figures once again lay bare the huge human toll.
It is a familiar and devastating rhythm for such a small country. The annual drumbeat of the lives lost to a preventable overdose.
This year was no different - 1,051 people killed.
Scotland drug deaths decrease - b... | Drug Discoveries |
Image source, BBC BreakfastImage caption, Tony Christie said he had chosen to speak about his diagnosis to reassure othersSinger Tony Christie has spoken of his positive approach to life following his dementia diagnosis.In an interview with BBC Breakfast, Christie, whose real name is Anthony Fitzgerald, said he was det... | Disease Research |
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota has officially become the 23rd state to legalize recreational cannabis use -- but don't light up just yet.
Gov. Tim Walz signed the bill into law Tuesday. The 300-page bill allows adults 21 and older to use recreational marijuana and transforms a black market into regulated, state-licensed ... | Health Policy |
More than 196,000 NHS appointments had to be cancelled because of the junior doctor strike in England last week, figures show.
It includes people who were waiting for operations and other treatments as well as scans and follow-up appointments.
The number of cancellations is the greatest so far in the NHS pay dispute.
A... | Health Policy |
Why is there a tampon shortage?Though Redditors have noted the tampon shortage for months, the issue flew largely under the radar until Time first wrote about the “great tampon shortage” earlier in June.Of course, tampons are not the only commodity in short supply. Global supply chains have been under stress since the ... | Women’s Health |
A "fun-loving" woman took her own life following the breakdown of her relationship and a dispute over who would look after the dog, an inquest has heard.
Caroline Forte, a successful graphic designer, hanged herself at her elderly parents' home with her mental health having deteriorated since the break up with her part... | Mental Health Treatments |
The mysterious incidents may have been deliberate attacks designed to prevent girls from seeking an education, officials said in recent days, after previously downplaying the issue. Girls and young women have played a prominent role in the protests that have rocked the Islamic Republic.
According to the Parliament's ne... | Epidemics & Outbreaks |
Billionaire Bill Gates revealed he would sleep as little as possible while building his Microsoft fortune, calling the need for shuteye lazy and “unnecessary.”
The tech titan said he realized the folly of his thinking while discussing brain health during a podcast with comedian Seth Rogan and his wife, Lauren Miller Ro... | Stress and Wellness |
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