Category: Health

When cancer patients develop a fever, an annoying cold or another acute problem, they need to go urgently to a hospital for antibiotics or other therapy because chemotherapy shuts down their immune systems until the treatment ends.  For such patients, getting help, follow-up appointments and testing can often last up to several hours. This is […]

European health officials advised pet owners to keep cat indoors to protect them from catching bird flu on Thursday, amid a series of incidents of cats and other mammals being infected with the virus around the world. “It is recommended to avoid exposure of domestic cats and dogs, and in general carnivore pets, to dead […]

An outbreak of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a deadly form of feline coronavirus, in Cyprus has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of cats, according to Sky News. The situation has prompted experts to warn that if the outbreak were to reach the UK, it could have catastrophic consequences. Dinos Ayiomamitis, head of Cats […]

A new study shows that people who eat certain foods that at lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality than those who do not.   The study was published in the Oxford University Press’s European Heart Journal, a peer-reviewed medical journal of cardiology. The relationship between diet and mortality and CVD is well known. […]

Gum disease and tooth loss have been linked to brain shrinkage in the hippocampus that plays a role in memory and Alzheimer’s disease – so taking good care of your teeth may be linked to better brain health. The study, just published in the online issue of Neurology (the journal of the American Academy of […]

Cheat days are a controversial concept among dieters. Some see them as just a small break from a very strict diet, like having one piece of chocolate cake or one slice of pizza over the weekend. However, it seems that social media has taken this concept to the extreme, with cheat days now seeing people […]

The Health Ministry in Jerusalem has finally commented on the official announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), that there is “certain evidence that shows that there may be a connection between certain types of cancer and the consumption of aspartame, an […]

Practicing mindfulness can help reduce the impact of intense negative emotions, a new study published on May 25 found.  The peer-reviewed study, which is published in the academic journal Frontiers, found that the emotionally impact of fatigue can be heavily alleviated through using mindfulness.  The study collected data from 145 participants from a Chinese university. […]

Rogue clinics selling stem cell therapies are popping up everywhere. There are thousands of them around the world, and they claim to be able to cure everything from autism to cerebral palsy. The highest concentration of stem cell therapy clinics is in the US, Mexico, India and China. And people are travelling far and wide […]

The joint assessment from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which is part of WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization, represents the first public intervention by the UN health agency on the widely used sweetener. Aspartame has been used in multiple food and […]