A public awareness drive and better industrial resolve will help to reduce or even stop the use of tobacco products. With the lockdown restrictions in place, if one can manage two to three weeks without smoking, then why not forever? “Today is the best time to quit smoking. People are…
Diabetes type 2 – the best exercise to avoid high blood sugar symptoms
Diabetes is a common condition that affects more than four million people in the UK, and 90 percent of all cases are caused by type 2 diabetes. You could lower your risk of high blood sugar by regularly doing pilates, it’s been claimed. Type 2 diabetes could be caused by…
Meet the teen climbing Mount Everest to raise money for her dad’s brain tumour
Lockdown has been alive with the sound of home challenges. You’ve got Colonel Tom Moore walking all those laps in his garden. We had Rob Ferguson climbing up and down the height of Mount Everest at home. And now we’ve got a 13-year-old climbing the same mountain (or the height…
World Multiple Sclerosis Day: All you need to know about the condition
Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis vary widely, and primarily depend upon which nerves are affected and the amount of damage caused. Those who have severe MS may lose the ability to independently walk while others may suffer from remissions for longer periods without showing any new symptoms. Multiple Sclerosis is a…
New human-mouse chimera is the most human yet
A newly-created mouse-human embryo contains up to 4% human cells — the most human cells yet of any chimera, or an organism made of two different sets of DNA. Surprisingly, those human cells could learn from the mouse cells and develop faster — at the pace of a mouse embryo…
Some States Are Learning What Happens to COVID-19 Cases If You Reopen Too Early
At least 14 states are reporting an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases as businesses and public facilities begin to reopen. Experts say the behavior of individuals as communities start to open up is a major factor in whether COVID-19 cases rise or fall. Experts also say the number of hospitalizations…
No-Equipment Exercises You Can Do Every Day to Build Upper Body Strength
Many of us know how to build lower-body strength without gym equipment. And we have plenty of at-home core exercises at the ready, too. But when it comes to upper-body workouts, we’re nothing without our dumbbells, our pull-up bars, and our weight machines. No-equipment upper-body exercises don’t come to mind…
Outcomes equal for AYA Hodgkin therapy at peds, adult centers
(HealthDay)—For adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), treatment strategies differ, but outcomes are equivalent with treatment at pediatric and adult centers, according to a study published online May 22 in Cancer Medicine. Sumit Gupta, M.D., Ph.D., from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and colleagues…
Tooth loss more prevalent in adults with chronic disease
(HealthDay)—Adults with severe chronic disease or with fair or poor general health have a higher prevalence of edentulism and severe tooth loss, according to research published in the May 29 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Marcia L. Parker, D.M.D., from…
Treatment of chloroquine poisoning
Research by Bangor University’s Professor Dyfrig Hughes has provided important evidence on the safety of treatments that are being tested for use in COVID-19. Chloroquine, an old drug developed for treating malaria, and hydroxychloroquine, a related drug used in autoimmune diseases, are being used as potential treatments for COVID-19. The…