Category: Health

For many women, adult diagnoses of autism are “a light in the darkness”, an epiphany of self-understanding. My “lightbulb moment” came in my late 20s. “They thought you were autistic,” my mum mused when I told her I was embarking on an academic career in autism research. As a child, I was painfully aware of […]

“People and our planet are in crisis”, the UN chief said, highlighting how conflicts continue to drive the vulnerable from their homes, while heatwaves and floods claim lives and division prevails. ‘Leave no one behind’ This year’s Peace Day coincides with the halfway point on the road to the Sustainable Development Goals, and the UN’s […]

In an unusual opportunity to address the UN General Assembly in New York, Health (and Interior) Minister Moshe Arbel spoke on Wednesday of the need to formulate an international tool for pandemic preparedness and response. Prior to his speech, he met with his Moroccan counterpart Prof. Khaled Ait Taleb to work on a joint […]

Millions of women are turning to the Chinese social media platform TikTok for health advice related to gynecologic cancers, but the majority of that information is misleading or dramatically inaccurate and could endanger health, according to a new US study.  Senior study author Prof. Laura Chambers and her colleagues at the division of gynecologic […]

There’s a bedtime habit you must reconsider immediately. Experts are cautioning against wearing dirty socks to bed, as they’ve been found to harbor bacteria typically associated with cockroaches and their excrement. In a survey of 1,017 Brits regarding their sleep routines, experts discovered that 18% of respondents wear socks to bed. What’s even more […]

I absolutely love this time of year. The children head back to school, many lugging backpacks that weigh more than they do; ripe pomegranates dangle from the trees; and the temperatures are ever so slowly starting to decrease. No sooner do you start to get into a post-summer routine, than life then takes a […]

In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed where she revealed she’d undergone a double mastectomy. Although Jolie didn’t have breast cancer, a genetic test had revealed she carried a genetic mutation that her doctors said put her at an 87% risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. Jolie also had a family history […]

Many habitually shower before bedtime, but sleep experts recommend leaving a gap between your nightly bath and hitting the hay. One of the reasons might be this disgusting factor that convinces you to break the habit of going to bed with damp hair. Washing your hair before bedtime often leads to the choice of […]

Despite affecting 55 million people worldwide, Alzheimer’s disease still has no cure. But recent advancements in the field have seen a number of promising drugs that can slow the disease’s progression pass late-stage clinical trials. The catch with these types of drug is that they’re most effective when taken soon after symptoms begin. Unfortunately, current […]

Nearly 40 million people around the world are currently living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and tens of millions of people have died of AIDS-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic.  The first cases of the illness now known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported from in 1981 at a conference in […]