Category: Health

Lives are at risk, and “the cost of inaction is simply too high”,  Dr. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said in a statement on Saturday after concluding a five-day visit to Syria. She expressed grave concern over the complexities and challenges facing the population and humanitarian operations on the ground. “The […]

Philip Morris International (PMI) – considered the largest tobacco company in the world (excluding the Chinese National Tobacco Corporation) is gaining trust in industry-funded science by “posing as a generous supporter and concealing its involvement through third parties,” according to a new peer-reviewed published study. The research has just appeared in the journal Frontiers in […]

So we are already coming up on the next season. You told yourself that after the holidays it would be different. This time you were going to watch what you ate and you were going to do some form of physical fitness every day.  Somewhere along the way you got distracted, uninspired, and lazy. So […]

Women and men think they can look younger than their age by injecting Botox or skin fillers like hyaluronic acid – but they’re wrong. A new study by skin experts in Tallinn, Estonia shows that human chronological age can be assessed with artificial intelligence (AI) examination of the dorsal part of the hand. They have […]

After the first Omicron wave, many of the risks of Covid infection changed. Before February 2022, wearing face masks and being over 70 were credited with a reduced risk of being infected by others – but not after that, according to a new study at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, the UK.  […]

The number of women medical professionals who are seen in hospital operating theaters has not increased in decades. Men still rule in the field. In fact, in most countries, female anesthesiologists and surgeons have increased by only about five percent over 10 years. Now, researchers writing in the British Journal of Surgery published by Oxford […]

A variant of the H5N1 subtype of bird flu that infected mink in October 2022 has shown some ability to transmit between ferrets through the air, albeit inefficiently, according to a new study published on Wednesday. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, was conducted by researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Emory […]

There are genetic connections between the chronic condition inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the incurable Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.  The significant discovery – just published in the journal Genome Medicine titled, “The landscape of rare genetic variation associated with […]