The health benefits of probiotics explained We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Any medication consumed will have altering effects on the body, for better or worse. […]
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A new study provides stark statistics about a reality that 6 million Americans with dementia and their families live every day: one where people with dementia receive hundreds of hours a month in unpaid care from spouses, adult children and other relatives, and where some rely on paid help including nursing home care. The study finds major differences in potential […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While most children and adolescents with cancer generally have mild illness during COVID-19 infection, 20% develop severe or critical illness, according to new data from the Global Registry of COVID-19 and Childhood Cancer. The analysis, which covered 1,500 children with cancer and COVID-19 from 131 hospitals in 45 countries, found that 67% of the more […]
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Dementia: Doctor outlines changes to help prevent disease We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info There are more than 100 types of dementia and many of the […]
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A recent study, published in Gut, by researchers from King’s and Harvard Medical School, examines data from nearly 600,000 ZOE COVID Study app contributors. Participants completed a survey about the food they ate during Feb 2020 (pre-pandemic), making it the largest study in this space. 19% of these contributors contracted COVID-19. People with the highest quality diet were around 10% […]
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Trainer, author, and fitness model Kirk Charles, NASM-CPT CES, knows that as you get older, life can get more complicated. But that shouldn’t prevent you from being on top of your game. He’ll help to answer the tough training questions that come with age so you too can be Fit Beyond 40. For many of my older clients who like […]
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(HealthDay)—A lost or altered sense of taste, dry mouth and sores are common among COVID-19 patients and those symptoms may last long after others disappear, Brazilian researchers report. Nearly 4 in 10 COVID patients experience impaired taste or total loss of taste, but dry mouth affects even more—up to 43%, according to their broad review of more than 180 published […]
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Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough discovery that could pave the way for the development of novel non-opioid painkillers (analgesics) to safely and effectively treat neuropathic pain. The research was published today in the prestigious journal Nature. Neuropathic pain is a type of chronic pain that can occur if your nervous system is damaged or not working correctly, and […]
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JCVI expert warns booster vaccines will wear off We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info It is hard to recall a public health emergency in recent times […]
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Unwell COVID-19 patients may be treated just as effectively with oxygen through a mask rather than the sometimes difficult to tolerate therapy known as Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), according to a new study. The patients in the study, whose frailty and other medical conditions meant they were unlikely to benefit from invasive mechanical ventilation and intensive care treatment, received […]
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