Am I getting enough Vitamin D?
Source: BBC Are your ‘sunshine vitamin’ levels low? Discover why you need vitamin D, how to get more and what to do if you’re concerned about your levels… Why do […]
Why Researchers Are Concerned This Pesticide May Cause Cancer
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Mar 24, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. A group of environmental health researchers is calling for federal regulators to reassess the safety of […]
US healthcare bill: Knife-edge vote looms for ‘Trumpcare’
Source: BBC US President Donald Trump is heading for a too-close-to-call vote on his troubled healthcare bill in the House. Mr Trump would suffer a huge blow if one of […]
All-male White House health bill photo sparks anger
Source: BBC News There is a familiarity about this photo, and it could have been taken in many boardrooms around the world – men gathered around a table making plans […]
The microbes in your body that you could not live without
Source: BBC By Adam Rutherford 22 March 2017 It began with what can only be described as an ingenious invention. It’s a fold-out sheet, with sticky tabs at the front […]
‘Huge advance’ in fighting world’s biggest killer
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES An innovative new drug can prevent heart attacks and strokes by cutting bad cholesterol to […]
‘Healthiest hearts in the world’ found
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website 18 March 2017 Image copyrightMICHAEL GURVEN The healthiest hearts in the world have been found in the Tsimane […]
The Noise That Improves Your Sleep
Source: Time Amanda MacMillan Mar 08, 2017 Deep sleep is critical to maintaining a robust memory, but both decline with age. A small new study published in Frontiers in Human […]
Obamacare Helped Working Moms Breastfeed — And It’s One Thing Republicans Might Keep
Source: Time By Tessa Berenson | Madeline Farber From the outside, the lactation room looks like any other door in the office building, except for the sign. “Breastfeeding Is Welcome […]
The 10 Most Addictive Foods and How to Stop Eating Them
Source: Time BY Selene Yeager / Health.com It’s not your imagination. There are foods that give you such a rush of pleasure from the very first bite that your brain screams […]
Food safety myths
Source: BBC Does the ‘five-second rule’ actually exist? This is the myth that if you drop food and pick it up quickly enough (within five seconds is most common, although some […]
Prize for cracking brain’s ‘feel good’ system
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightSPL The UK based winners cracked the brain’s “reward centre” It influences your happiness, pleasure or motivation to do something But the system can go wrong turning people into addicts Three UK-based scientists have won a prestigious […]
How economics killed the antibiotic dream
Source: BBC By Tim Harford BBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy Image copyrightISTOCK On a ramshackle pig farm near Wuxi, in Jiangsu province, China, a foreigner […]
You Asked: Should I Try the Ketogenic Diet?
Source: Time BY Markham Heid Don’t let its fancy name fool you. A ketogenic diet is, essentially, a low-carb, high-fat diet—albeit one taken to extremes. “In a clinical setting, a strict […]
Teenager’s sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy
Source: BBC By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightSPL Image captionHealthy red blood cells are round, but the genetic defect makes them sickle shaped A French […]
As H.I.V. Soars in Philippines, Conservatives Kill School Condom Plan
Source: The New York Times By AURORA ALMENDRALFEB. 28, 2017 Jhay-ar Tumala, left, who has tested positive for H.I.V., talking with a doctor in Manila this month.CreditJes Aznar for The […]
Chelsea Clinton: America is suffering an opioid epidemic
Source: BBC By Chelsea Clinton Many of the global health challenges I see in 2017 were painfully present and widely acknowledged as challenges in 2016. This is true of specific […]
Swedish mum’s battle against sugar goes viral
Source: BBC Swedish mother’s successful stand against sugar has turned her into a social media sensation. Anna Larsson decided to cut out sweet treats after realising how bad her young […]
Why Men Are Much Worse At Being Sick Than Women
Source: Time By Amanda MacMillan In the debate over which is the stronger sex, the so-called “man flu” inevitably comes up. It’s a popular theory that men get sicker—or at least […]
WHO: These 12 bacteria pose greatest risk to human health
Source: CNN By Meera Senthilingam, CNN (CNN)Twelve types of bacteria were deemed “priorities” in urgent need of new antibiotics, according to a list released by the World Health Organization on […]