Category: Health

Eleven years ago, my colleagues and I estimated that about 2 million people around the world were dying from fungal infections annually. My latest estimate puts the figure today at nearly double that: around 3.8 million deaths. To put this in perspective, it accounts for around 6.8% of total global deaths. Coronary heart disease is […]

The certification is expected to drive progress on other health fronts in the country such as using the systems built for controlling malaria to fight other mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue fever. “I salute the Government and people of Cabo Verde for their unwavering commitment and resilience in their journey to eliminating malaria,” said Tedros Adhanom […]

It’s not a myth that people may suffer pains when the weather changes. Orthopedic pain or migraines, for example, can occur when it rains, is cold or the wind blows. For people who suffer from chronic pain, weather can be a significant factor in their day-to-day plans, according to American researchers from the University of […]

It’s estimated around 3% of people in the UK experience long COVID – persistent, long-lasting symptoms after a COVID-19 infection. Long COVID encompasses a range of health problems that can begin after even a mild COVID infection. Some of these symptoms include extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle aches and loss of smell. For around […]

A person’s hearing can be damaged by loud noise, aging, and even certain medications, leaving victims with little choice except to get a hearing aid or undergo a surgical cochlear implant.   A famous case is former US president Bill Clinton who lost much of his hearing from playing the saxophone. He loved to play the […]

COVID-19 was the first coronavirus pandemic. The original Sars virus from 2003 and the Mers virus that created a health emergency in South Korea in 2015 were both coronaviruses, but fortunately failed to turn into pandemics in the way that COVID did. Four years on from its appearance, Sars-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) now […]

The hardest part of consistently exercising is finding the motivation to do it. But using the wrong type of motivation for your workouts could militate against you – and could even have consequences for your mental health. Our research, which investigated the motivations of 650 frequent exercisers, found that people who believed things like “I […]

A recently published study shows that the use of a psychoactive drug can lead to reducing military veterans‘ symptoms of PTSD and traumatic brain injuries. For military veterans, many of the most painful wounds of war are invisible. Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) resulting from head trauma or blast explosions are a leading cause of post-traumatic […]

Some people get allergy-like symptoms when drinking alcohol, but can you really be allergic to alcohol? Alcohol allergies are rare, with documented cases primarily involving a rash. However, what often perplexes people are the symptoms that mimic allergies, such as wheezing, headaches and skin flushing. These reactions, more often than not, are attributed to alcohol […]