SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Each morning before work at a Singapore construction site, Gunasekar Udayakumar, 41, gets his vital signs checked, without going to a clinic, or even seeing a nurse.Slideshow ( 4 images )All he needs is his smartphone, which in just 45 seconds can tell him his heart rate, oxygen levels and even his stress levels. It can also […]
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Night ‘owls’ may be twice as likely as morning ‘larks’ to underperform at work and to run a heightened risk of early retirement due to disability, finds research published online in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Given the move to lengthen working life and delay pension eligibility, it might be worth factoring in a person’s chronotype, suggest the researchers. […]
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Beauty hack: How to draw perfectly straight lines on nails When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters.Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer.Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights.You can unsubscribe at any time. Toenail ridges are relatively common, and […]
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There is growing evidence that ketone bodies may be beneficial to heart disease patients regardless of the method of delivery used to increase ketone delivery to the heart. A Journal of the American College of Cardiology review paper examines emerging evidence regarding ketone bodies’ effects on the heart and the potential for ketone therapy as a cardiovascular intervention in heart […]
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Children born to mothers in poor cardiovascular health during pregnancy had an almost eight times higher risk for landing in the poorest cardiovascular health category in early adolescence than children born to mothers who had ideal cardiovascular health during pregnancy. In an observational cohort study that involved 2302 mother–child dyads, 6.0% of mothers and 2.6% of children were considered to […]
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When news of a new baby for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry broke just days after Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank welcomed their own baby, speculation began that the pair was once again trying to upstage Prince Harry’s royal cousins. The two committed the social faux pas of announcing Meghan’s pregnancy with Archie at Eugenie’s wedding. after all. But, as […]
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Slight differences in clinical features can help physicians distinguish between two rare but similar forms of autoimmune brain inflammation in children, a new study by UT Southwestern scientists suggests. The findings, published online in Pediatric Neurology, could provide patients and their families with a better prognosis and the potential to target treatments specific to each condition in the future. About […]
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A group of researchers at Qatar Foundation have reported the first and largest genetic association study in the Middle East, that has been published online in Nature Communications—a leading a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Research. The study titled “Whole genome sequencing in the Middle Eastern Qatari population identifies genetic associations with 45 clinically relevant traits” highlights […]
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As the U.S. reached the shocking milestone of 500,000 people lost to COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, called the death toll a "stunning" number — and something that should not have happened in such a wealthy country. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the highly infectious virus […]
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A research team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed a mathematical model to estimate the false negative rate for COVID-19 tests. According to a study published earlier this month in Clinical Infectious Diseases, the assay limit of detection (or the smallest amount of viral DNA detectable that a test will catch 95% or more of the time) meaningfully […]
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