When it comes to a workout or run, there are a few fitness essentials: good shoes, a decent warm up and plenty of water. We’re often told how important the latter is, to ensure we are replacing the fluids lost through sweat. But what’s the best way to actually drink water when working out? Is it better to sip little […]

Calls for UK to start screening for diabetes: Experts say cancer-like programme could spot hundreds of thousands of cases earlier Scientists examined records of Britons and found 1% had undiagnosed diabetes This equates to 250,000 people aged 40 to 70 unwittingly having condition The University of Exeter team called for middle-aged adults to be screened  The UK’s 25million middle-aged adults […]

The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Among Medicare beneficiaries who survived to discharge after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), the 3-year risk of death from any cause was significantly lower for those residing in predominately White and economically privileged ZIP codes, compared with majority Black […]

Attendance for cervical smear tests is on the decline again. Fewer people are booking the appointments they’re advised to attend every three to five years. I say ‘people’, because not everyone with a cervix is a woman, and not everyone who’s a woman has a cervix. This is an important distinction, and the reason why I was overdue my smear […]

As we’re forecasted more downpours, we asked experts how to to stick with your running routine in the rain.  You don’t need us to tell you that exercising in the winter can be tough. With dark mornings, seasonal illnesses and wet, windy weather, an extra hour in bed or an evening spent in front of the TV can feel more tempting […]

Patients with rhinitis treat their condition as symptoms arise, rather than by guidelines on how to keep their disease under control, suggests a longitudinal study that confirms cross-sectional analyses. Investigators captured data from patients in 25 countries via a mobile application called MASK-air. The app provides real-world data on patient experiences with their allergic rhinitis and how they use — […]

Digital programming and virtual interactions, initially considered to be stop-gap measures during the first few waves of the pandemic, may now be an important part of supporting many people’s health and well-being—including the well-being of older adults. During the COVID-19 pandemic, group musical activities moved online, prompting a wave of virtual choir experiments and virtual orchestra offerings. These and other […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Owners of social media platforms should consider their personal responsibility regarding health disinformation, and the public should choose reputable sources to trust, White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said on Tuesday. “You can decide to trust America’s physicians, or you can trust some random dude on Twitter. Those are your choices,” Jha said at a White […]

About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree have been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that used genome sequencing to give these peculiar creatures their own classification home. "They don't have any particular feature that you can see with the naked eye where […]

Among the more remarkable legacies of the covid-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis. But that fast-track focus is missing from another, less publicized epidemic: an explosion in sexually transmitted diseases that can cause chronic pain and infertility among infected […]