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‘Why my job in intensive care has convinced me NEVER to have a routine operation’: One nurse’s haunting account of the daily traumas of caring for patients in the ward where life hangs by a thread When I get home from work, my husband asks: ‘How was your day?’ Mostly, I smile and simply say: ‘It was good,’ as if […]
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Quebec’s appeals court on Friday upheld a historic ruling ordering three tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (US$11.6 billion) to smokers in the Canadian province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. Imperial Tobacco Canada, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & Hedges and JTI-MacDonald have one month to launch an eventual […]
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The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology The annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology was held from Feb. 22 to 25 in San Francisco and attracted more than 5,000 participants from around the world, including clinicians, academicians, allied health professionals, and others interested in allergic and immunologic disease. The conference highlighted recent advances in […]
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“I see you’ve lost weight recently. Congratulations!” my doctor said with a large smile before continuing with the rest of the exam. I was in my late teens, shivering in her freezing-cold office and obsessing over the fact that I had half of a bagel before coming in, bringing my weight up by half a pound. When my doctor congratulated […]
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People fall in love for many reasons — similar interests, physical attraction, and shared values among them. But if they marry and stay together, their long-term happiness may depend on their individual genes or those of their spouse, says a new study led by Yale School of Public Health researchers. Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study examined the […]
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If you’re the kind of coffee junkie that prefers to spike your cup of joe with Kahlúa over Baileys, your dream drink is on its way to becoming reality. Kahlúa announced a new, ready-to-drink cocktail coming to stores this spring, and it doubles down on coffee flavor. The canned Espresso Style Martini combines Kahlúa, coffee, and vodka and has a […]
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Immediately before a person decides to launch themselves off a bridge for a bungee jump, there is a measurable increase in their brain activity. This can be recorded nearly one second before the person makes the conscious decision to jump. Researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin have, for the first time, succeeded in measuring this ‘Bereitschaftspotential’ (readiness potential) outside a […]
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That slightly Overweight is not always associated with negative consequences for health, faith, still many. Mistakenly – as a new American study shows that women who are overweight or obese, but otherwise healthy, and have diseases, the investigation is still at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Overweight is never really healthy The large-scale study observed the health of 90.257 […]
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Family of an 18-month-old toddler with a ‘one-in-a-million’ condition that has left her paralysed are trying to raise £25,000 for groundbreaking research in the US in hope of a cure Anya Bell suffered a stroke-like attack when she was 10 weeks old Doctors were baffled before diagnosing alternative hemiplegia of childhood Only 500 families worldwide are coping with AHC which […]
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Thus, a low Vitamin-D levels in the hair, recognize A lack of Vitamin D supply is widely used in Germany. According to the Robert Koch-Institute more than one Person in such a small proportion in the body has, the risk increases for diseases such as osteomalacia (bone softening) and osteoporosis. Around 40 per cent of the population to a suboptimal […]
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