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By Tessa Koumoundouros For many of us, weight loss -- with a goal to be healthier overall -- has proven notoriously hard. Factors outside our control, from genetics and reliance on certain medications, to time and money restraints, can make it even tougher. But...
The chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer has warned that not enough Covid-19 vaccines will be available for everyone in the world to be inoculated until the end of 2024 at the earliest. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of...
Political polarization and online misinformation are threatening vaccination programs worldwide, with public trust volatile and varying widely between countries, according to a global vaccine confidence study. The study, which maps trends in vaccine confidence across...
A group of 12,000 doctors, scientists and public health experts delivered a simple message on Thursday: get a flu shot. As flu season approaches, health experts are stressing the need to get a flu shot more than ever. “If there’s ever a year that you need to get a flu...
By Peter Dockrill One of the most consumed drugs in the U.S. – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, new evidence suggests. Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, and sold widely...
By Malcolm Kendrick In February, U.S. Covid-19 guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus would be "akin to a severe flu" and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people -- or one in a thousand. Then, fatality rate predictions somehow became mixed up to make it look...
The announcement Tuesday by AstraZeneca that it had temporarily stopped Covid-19 vaccine trials due to illness to one or more participants could slow the availability of a safe vaccine to South American countries. Several countries in the region were part of...
By Veronique Greenwood Covid-19 patients who are 80 or older are hundreds of times more likely to die than those under 40. That’s partly because they are more likely to have underlying conditions — like diabetes and lung disease — that seem to make the body more...
By Michael Braga Operation Quack Hack, the U.S. government’s initiative to clamp down on fake coronavirus medications and cures, has exposed a health underground in America brimming with distrust not only of mainstream medicine but the government itself. It’s a Tea...
By Malcolm Kendrick The release of previously repressed studies shows that if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, this increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. My fellow doctors need to accept the evidence. Whilst we are in the middle of the...
By Emma Reynolds Susan Bailey, a 57-year-old retired nurse from Florida, has had all her jabs and gets a flu shot every year. She's a vocal Joe Biden supporter -- and one of a growing number of people globally who say they wouldn't take a coronavirus vaccine even if...
By Zamira Rahim Boris Johnson's latest strategy to fight coronavirus aims to make Britain healthier -- but campaigners are worried about the impact the policy will have on people living with eating disorders. Johnson's government launched its Better Health strategy in...
By Jenny Taitz In this emotional equivalent to an ultramarathon, it’s key to have some stress-reducing strategies available that work quickly and efficiently to help you hit the reset button. Here’s why: Struggling with chronic worry gets in the way of effectively...
By Sanjay Gupta and Andrea Kane We're now more than seven months into the coronavirus pandemic that has upended the lives of most of Earth's inhabitants. And while it is true that the scientific community has learned many things about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the...
By Jaime Moreno Do you know what is the difference between politics and science? Our understanding is that science requires evidence, coping with uncertainty, weighting efficacy and safety. Whereas politics aspires for certainty, resulting in a true fight between the...
Editor's note: This is the story of Jane and Steve Miner’s experience with Covid-19 in May/June 2020. Some of you will have already followed their journey as documented on Facebook. They were both fortunate to have had very mild cases and feel that, as more knowledge...
Author's note: All good things must come to an end, at least for now! I've enjoyed writing the Food, Nutrition, and Your Health column for CuencaHighLife over the past five-plus years, and I hope you've enjoyed reading them. My husband and I last November decided that...
By Ryan Felton In August 2011 a Colorado woman was rushed to an emergency room in cardiac arrest a day after her husband injected her with a mineral salt called cesium chloride. For the better part of a year, the 61-year-old had taken a dietary supplement containing...
Combining more healthy lifestyle behaviors was associated with substantially lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease in a study that included data from nearly 3,000 research participants. Those who adhered to four or all of the five specified healthy behaviors were found...
By Karin Brulliard and William Wan Add this to our list of worries in these anxious times: coronavirus-containing clouds that waft into the air when a toilet is flushed. Scientists who simulated toilet water and air flows say in a new research paper that aerosol...
