This Morning: Dr Chris discusses vitamin D and Covid 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 Vitamin D is important for healthy bones, teeth and muscles. It […]
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The first clinical trial of a new dietary treatment for children and adults with severe forms of epilepsy, co-developed by UCL researchers and based on the ketogenic diet, has been successfully completed. For the study, published in Brain Communications, clinicians evaluated the use of K.Vita, (also known as Betashot), an oral liquid dietary supplement developed by UCL in collaboration with […]
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Finally, the Tokyo Olympic Games is here. As our Aussie athletes now getting comfortable in the olympic village and taking the last steps of preparation, both mental and physical, to compete at their best ahead of their sporting event, all eyes on our Olympic hopefuls. But while the quest for many certainly rests on their first-place podium finish, Australia’s female […]
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(Reuters) – More than two million Americans have signed up for an Obamacare health insurance plan during a special enrollment period opened by President Joe Biden during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a government report released on Wednesday. The Biden administration re-opened the country’s online health insurance marketplace earlier this year to give more Americans a chance to opt for […]
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Fears of “viral shedding” and other concerns after the COVID vaccine has led some businesses to ban vaccinated customers from the premises, believing vaccination poses a health risk to others. We’ve seen this in Australia, in the northern New South Wales town of Mullumbimby and on the Gold Coast in Queensland. We’ve also seen this internationally. In the United States, […]
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Patients with a mental illness, particularly a psychotic or mood disorder, are twice as likely to die after infection with SARS-CoV-2 compared with those without a psychiatric diagnosis, according to the results of the largest study of its kind to date. These findings, investigators note, highlight the need to prioritize vaccination in patients with preexisting mental health disorders. “We have […]
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The day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson finished his bicentennial bus tour to drum up tourism to the state in mid-July, Chicago issued a travel advisory warning about visiting Missouri. Earlier this summer, as covid-19 case counts began to tick up when the highly transmissible delta variant took hold in the state, the Republican-majority legislature successfully enacted laws limiting public […]
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Avenir HIV/AIDs recipient Matthew Akiyama, MD, an assistant professor and clinician-investigator at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, is a blood-borne infections sleuth. With a 4-year, $2.5M Avenir Awards grant from the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA), Akiyama and his colleagues plan to leverage the power of next-generation gene sequencing to further their work on […]
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Haemorrhoids: NHS expert gives advice on treatment 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 Haemorrhoids, also called piles, are swollen veins in your anus and lower rectum, […]
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The Sparkella Collection is here! Inspired by Channing Tatum’s New York Times best-selling children’s book The One and Only Sparkella, Monica + Andy have debuted the Sparkella Collection. The multi-talented actor, dancer, author, and girl dad to Everly, 7, has been giving us all the sweet father-daughter content we can stand (like this recent Instagram post with his daughter at the […]
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