High blood pressure is a common condition in which the long-term force of the blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high. While this mechanism may not present any outward signs initially, a consistently high blood pressure reading can lead a number of potentially fatal complications in the long run, such as heart disease. To ward off the […]
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A new coronavirus not previously detected in humans has rippled through parts of China, spreading to more than 440 people since first appearing in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late December. Coronaviruses are a large class of viruses ranging in severity from the common cold to deadly respiratory infections such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Although […]
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After a traumatic brain injury, the most harmful damage is caused by secondary swelling of the brain compressed inside the skull. There is no treatment for this. In new research, Northwestern Medicine scientists were able to significantly reduce brain swelling and damage after a traumatic brain injury by injecting nanoparticles into the bloodstream within two hours after the injury, they […]
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The World Health Organisation estimates that one in 160 children around the world has an autism spectrum disorder. Autism is a condition related to the development of the brain and is usually noticeable by the time a child is three years old. Statistics aren’t available for any African country, so researchers like me in South Africa are using international prevalence […]
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Woman has cartilage from her RIBS grafted into her nose in an operation to repair damage left by a nose job she had when she was just 13 Megan, whose surname and age aren’t known, begged her mother for a nose job Now an adult, she has lived for decades with the damage done by her surgeon Botched surgeons Dr […]
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Cystic fibrosis sufferer, 28, ‘being suffocated by her own body’ pleads for life-saving ‘wonder drug’ available in America but not signed off by NHS because the financial watchdog is ‘very busy’ 28-year-old Nicole Adams, from Belfast, is in the end stages of cystic fibrosis Her only real hope lies in a new medicine that can improve lung function The pioneering […]
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The age-old question of how to boost increase life expectancy has brought up numerous theories and research. One of the biggest questions in ageing research is whether there is a ceiling on how long human beings can live until. A recent study, published in Science, suggests there isn’t. The study measured the survival probabilities of 3,896 people in Italy aged […]
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A mother’s consumption of fats during pregnancy may affect their child's future health outlook, according to University of Sydney researchers. A higher fat diet was associated with epigenetic age acceleration among the infants, a process associated with an increased risk of disease. A small study by University of Sydney researchers has found a possible link between fats – including ‘good’ […]
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The research published in the journal Royal Society Open Science says that sexually active women are at a lower risk of entering menopause phase than women with less active sex life. Women who have sex at least once a month have a lower risk of entering menopause early than women with less active sex lives, scientists have found in research […]
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In the years since I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, each day seems to bring about a new and unexpected symptom. But putting the pieces together and discovering that my hypothyroidism was negatively affecting my sex life felt like a gut-punch, even more so than finding out about the gastrointestinal problems or night sweats. This aspect of my life that had […]
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