Category: Health News

Type 2 diabetes can be a 'devastating diagnosis' says expert We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Almost four million people in

Researchers autopsied 24 brains, including six from people known as “SuperAgers.” They found that SuperAgers had larger neurons than people almost 60 years their junior. They noted that further research is needed to understand how larger neurons are linked to preserved memory capacity in SuperAgers. Memory capacity typically declines with age. Around 40% of people

Midwives face calls to drop decade-long partnership with Slimming World over concerns ‘unethical’ arrangement may harm mothers’ mental health The RCM has had a decade-long ‘partnership’ with diet company Slimming World But critics are calling for an end to the arrangement, describing it as ‘unethical’ They claimed any focus on ‘slimming’ risked triggering eating disorders

What’s the truth about mindfulness and our health? From lowering blood pressure to relieving chronic pain and improving your sex life, all the benefits according to science Mindfulness meditation has been craze among celebrities for years, with many saying it helped their careers And a growing body of scientific research is now pointing to measurable

Amid much speculation and research about how our genetics affect the way we age, a University of California, Berkeley, study now shows that individual differences in our DNA matter less as we get older and become prone to diseases of aging, such as diabetes and cancer. In a study of the relative effects of genetics,

One of the many risks associated with heart attacks and cardiac surgery is acute kidney injury, a serious condition that in some cases can lead to kidney failure. Common as it is—it’s observed 10% to 20% of the time following heart surgery or a heart attack— scientists don’t have a full biological understanding of why

Pfizer faces backlash for creating pro-vaccine Marvel comic: Experts say PR tactic is ‘ethically dubious in the extreme’ Pfizer partnered with Marvel to release the ‘Everyday Heroes’ strip yesterday  Comic’s release comes amid sluggish uptake of the booster vaccine in the US  But Professor David Livermore told MailOnilne it appears to be aimed at children  Pfizer’s Covid

A Hackensack Meridian Health doctor and bioethicist explores the difficulties of decision-making for surgeons in a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Making clinical decisions based on how a patient appears to a surgeon may be subject to “ableist” biases. A doctor’s subjective “eyeball test” might make assumptions about a patient’s quality

Loose Women: Vicky McClure discusses Our Dementia Choir We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Excessive alcohol drinking is scorned by health

Three babies have been born after receiving the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining surgery with stem cells. This was made possible by a landmark clinical trial at UC Davis Health. The one-of-a-kind treatment, delivered while a fetus is still developing in the mother’s womb, could improve outcomes for children with this birth defect. Launched

Testing on humans of a novel COVID-19 vaccine developed in Brazil will begin this year. It performed well in animal trials, as reported in an article published in August in Nature Communications. The scientists responsible for the vaccine have just received authorization from the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) to begin clinical trials. “There are

John Lydon discusses his wife's battle with dementia on GMB We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Ageing populations are understood to

Drug could be a ‘game-changer’ for millions with chronic coughs… but it’s STILL not approved in Britain or the US British researchers found drug gefapixant reduces coughing by 60 per cent  Trials show the twice-daily pill is safe and effective when compared to a placebo ‘Major advance’ could offer relief to up to 70 per cent of people

Less than a third of regulatory actions taken by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are corroborated by published research findings or public assessments, finds a study published by The BMJ today. The researchers say their findings, based on analysis of drug safety signals identified by the FDA from 2008 to 2019, suggest that

Suicide rates in the United States have surged over the past two decades, but the number of physicians, nurses, and other health care workers who can provide mental health care is getting smaller and smaller, leaving the majority of US counties unable to meet this need in their communities. Now, a new study led by

On a recent afternoon, it was a crisp 70 degrees on the football field at the high school in this northwestern Montana community less than 200 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border. Vikings head coach Jim Benn was running his team through drills in the pristine fall weather, without much interruption. Just a couple of

Faith-based communities have long provided members with life enhancing benefits. Beyond offering messages of hope, churches and other spiritual institutions offer members many support services that enrich lives and strengthen family bonds. For men of color, faith-based organizations become increasingly important as they approach their senior years. Whether they’re members of a church, mosque, synagogue

Among ophthalmologic residents, there are no differences across performance metrics between residents taking parental leave versus their peers not taking leave, according to a study published online Sept. 29 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Dana D. Huh, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues reviewed educational records of 283 ophthalmology residents who

Firefighters are the heroes of our society, protecting us around the clock. But those 24-hour shifts are hard on the body and increase the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, as well as cancer. In collaboration with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, scientists from the Salk Institute and UC San Diego

Most of us don’t think about cancer when we’re in our 20s and 30s. But recent research has shown that people born after 1990 are more likely to develop cancer before the age of 50 than any other generation before. While there are some things we can’t change when it comes to cancer—such as certain