Lucy Pargeter, 43, who’s appeared in ITV’s Emmerdale since 2002, revealed last year she had her DD breast implants removed as they’d stopped her breathing properly. Th actress described her implants as “toxic bags” and couldn’t wait to get them out her body. READ MORE Jack P Shepherd health: ‘I…
Biomarker test highly accurate in detecting early kidney cancer
A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The report in Nature Medicine suggests that if validated in larger trials and applied widely, the…
Coronavirus pandemic still accelerating: WHO chief
The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general told an online conference on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organised by Dubai authorities that the greatest threat facing the world is not the virus itself,…
Best supplements for weight loss: A supplement which reduces the absorption of fat
Supplements have been used around the world for a variety of health issues. Some are more powerful than others and when it comes to weight loss, a lesser known one could be the answer to help speed up your weight loss. READ MORE High cholesterol: Sign your cholesterol could be…
Brazil passes 50,000 deaths from coronavirus: official
Brazil on Sunday said it had registered more than 50,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak as well as about one million infections, as the second worst-affected country in the world struggles to control the disease. The Ministry of Health reported 641 new deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the…
Iran reports over 100 new virus deaths for third day running
Iranian health authorities reported over 100 new deaths from the novel coronavirus Sunday for the third day running, stressing that the outbreak had not yet peaked in the hard-hit country. Iran reported its first coronavirus cases on February 19 and has since struggled to contain the outbreak, the deadliest in…
Morocco opens field hospital after spike in virus cases
A new field hospital in eastern Morocco will from Sunday receive around 700 COVID-19 patients following a sharp spike in infections in the kingdom, the government said. Morocco reported a record single-day rise in novel coronavirus cases on Friday after an outbreak was detected in fruit packing plants in eastern…
Fatty liver sufferers more likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19, study found
A joint study – the first of its kind – by UK BioBank and Oxford based diagnostic imaging company Perspectum, found people with more than ten percent fat in their were more than twice as likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19 than those who had healthy (less than five percent)…
Coronavirus cases exceed 2.5 million in Europe
Europe has recorded more than 2.5 million coronavirus deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic, with more than half the total accounted for by Russia, Britain, Spain and Italy, according to a tally from official sources complied by AFP as of 1030 GMT Saturday. With some 2,500,091 cases including 192,158…
Air pollution damages the brain – Naturopathic naturopathy expert portal
Air pollution damages the brain? There seems to be a connection between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk for development of disorders of the brain, as a recent study shows. In the current investigation of the University of California has established that air pollution affects the development of the…