Medical workers attend to patients of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at an intensive care unit (ICU) converted from a conference room, at a hospital in Cangzhou, Hebei province, China January 11, 2023. China Daily via REUTERSSHANGHAI (Reuters) – COVID fever and emergency hospitalisations have peaked in China and the number of hospitalised COVID patients is continuing to decline, a Chinese […]

Food for thought: rising grocery prices affect food choices and nutrition, and ultimately health, and even the health care system. As a result of inflation, the cost of food continues to soar, with data from Statistics Canada reporting the latest price changes of foods purchased from groceries stores and restaurants. In September, Canada experienced its largest yearly increase in foods […]

The Obesity Society (TOS) and Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) have collaborated to issue a statement on the new Clinical Guideline for Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). On Jan. 9, 2023, AAP published its first clinical practice guideline on the treatment of childhood obesity, replacing recommendations last made in […]

Dr Zoe Williams discusses visceral fat on This Morning 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 The key to effective fat burn is a combination of a […]

Are striking NHS staff on brink of new £3bn pay deal? Steve Barclay ‘admits 1million medics deserve one-off cash boost… but Treasury says he’ll have to raid his OWN budget’ Steve Barclay has admitted the Government’s 2022/23 deal needs to be upped Health Secretary has repeatedly insisted the offer was all No10 could afford READ MORE: Pay offer hope to end […]

As effective as catheter ablation can be for patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), the procedure that aims for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has met much less success in those with persistent AF, when episodes last a week to a year or more. To boost catheter ablation’s chances for success in persistent AF, PVI is often augmented with further ablation […]

Breaking up sedentary time behind a desk by taking a 5-minute stroll every half hour was the optimal break from being seated to improve cardiometabolic and mental health, results of a small cross-over study show. “We set out to figure out what’s the bare minimum someone has to do in terms of movement” to counteract the harmful effects of sitting […]

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Randomized controlled trials comparing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) “show serious methodological imbalances with a common selective pattern and should be considered at high risk of performance and attrition bias that may affect internal validity,” a new systematic review and meta-analysis concludes. The study, by the INTEGRITTY (International Evidence Grading Research Initiative Targeting Transparency […]

The hippocampus is a major region in the brain of vertebrates known to play a key role both in navigation and the encoding of memories and learning. While many neuroscience studies have investigated this brain region’s function and its organization, there is still much to be discovered. Past research consistently identified a population of cells in the hippocampus, known as […]