Health authorities in China told the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday that a spike in cases of pneumonia or respiratory illness among children in the northern part of the country is linked to typical seasonal microbes and not to any new or unknown pathogen, the organization says. Following a request for more information from…
Switching to a healthier diet in middle age could add more than eight years to your life. Moving from a typically British unhealthy diet to following the NHS Eatwell Guide, for a 40-year-old woman, could help her live approximately eight years and seven months longer. That could mean living to the age of 86 instead…
A surprising thing happened when researchers began exploring whether early-life stress compounds the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life. In an animal study, stress changed the activation level of many more genes in the brain than were changed by a bump to the head. It’s already known that…
Do you often find yourself yawning throughout the day, struggling to concentrate, or battling a persistent sense of fatigue? If so, it might be time to take a closer look at your sleeping habits. The quality of your sleep directly influences your overall well-being, and establishing healthy sleeping habits is the key to unlocking your…
People who suffer with atopic dermatitis (AD), commonly known as eczema, have an increased likelihood of developing depression and anxiety, which is made worse when additional allergic symptoms are present. A new study being presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. showed that, among the…
There’s good news for people who have partially lost their sense of taste and smell after a mild form of COVID-19: a new study shows that this side effect largely goes away three years after infection. Italian researchers studied post-COVID treatment outcomes in 88 people who lost their sense of taste and smell at the…
Stuart Fisher, an American doctor and author of books on healthy eating, said that drinking too much water can provoke seizures and loss of consciousness, the Daily Mail reports. Many nutritionists recommend consuming about eight glasses of water a day – it’s essential for digestive and cardiovascular function, as well as for transporting oxygen and…
Spanish researchers have created the world’s first biobank of living brain tissue collected from patients with metastatic brain cancer. The biobank provides a library of samples upon which research can be done and drugs tested, with the data collected made available to the international scientific community. Research into brain cancers and testing drugs for the…
Dementia, which includes Alzheimer’s disease, currently affects around 1.8 million people in Germany. The exact cause has not yet been clarified, but genetic factors play a significant role in the development of the disease. Most previous analyses aimed at the identification of novel Alzheimer’s genes used, a “case-control design”. “With this conventional and highly simplistic…
Clinical trials of what could be the long-awaited drug against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will begin in Denmark by the end of the year. The results of preliminary laboratory tests, conducted by two teams of Australian scientists in collaboration with colleagues in Denmark, inspire cautious optimism. An article describing the results of these “tests”…
