Adolescent boys from lower socio-economic backgrounds are most likely to be the victims of bullying, according to the first comprehensive study of school bullying around the world. The study, led by University of Queensland researchers, investigated the prevalence of bullying victimisation during school years among more than 310,000 students. The data was collected from students aged from 12 to 17 […]
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The weight loss pill Plenity was approved last April by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but it won’t be available until this fall. Officials at Gelesis say they needed to raise funds for marketing and manufacturing as well as set up a distribution system. Plenity is a pill, but it’s considered a device by the FDA. The pill works […]
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More than 400 diagnoses of cancer per DAY could be avoided if Britons lived healthier lives, charity claims The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) made estimations based on 2017 data It said 40 per cent of cancers could be prevented by living healthier This includes stopping smoking, drinking too much alcohol and losing weight More than 400 diagnoses of cancer […]
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Will.i.am, 44, has been living with tinnitus – the name given to hearing noises that aren’t caused by an outside source. Appearing on ITV’s Loose Women to speak about what he thought of this year’s The Voice line-up, the music mogul opened up about what it’s like living with the condition. Speaking to the Loose Women panel in January, he […]
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Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug. The ships in Japan and Hong Kong are […]
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Some children grow out of their food allergies, but researchers don’t exactly know why. Here’s how to work with your allergy specialist if you suspect your child isn’t allergic any more. Who’s more likely to grow out of their food allergy? Food allergy affects up to 10% of infants and 8% of children in Australia and New Zealand. Common food […]
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InterSystems has announced that it forged a partnership with Imprivata to enable TrakCare customers to use the digital identity company’s single sign-on and authentication capabilities. WHY IT MATTERS As TrakCare is used at sites across England, Scotland and Wales, the firms say the collaboration will promote efficiency, helping to reduce the time staff have to spend logging into different computer systems. The UK […]
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Thoughts, sensations, and emotions zap across the brain via a meshwork of fine nerve fibers called axons. Axon size is crucially important for general brain function as well as in certain neurological conditions. Experts have been striving to establish a means to noninvasively measure these fibers for many years. An international team of researchers has now developed a novel MRI […]
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Excessive weight around our middle gives our brain’s resident immune cells heavy exposure to a signal that turns them against us, setting in motion a crescendo of inflammation that damages cognition, scientists say. It’s known this visceral adiposity, characterized by an apple-shaped physique, is considered particularly bad for our bodies and brains. But Medical College of Georgia scientists have shown […]
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Children conceived with assisted reproductive techniques including in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a somewhat higher mortality risk during their first weeks of life than children conceived naturally, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. The researchers link the increased risk to a higher degree of premature births in IVF […]
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