Category: Health

While we humans generally experience the world through sight, dogs use scent to learn about the environment around them. What their nose knows is crucial for finding food, mates and safe spaces. Our furry friends can also use their sniffing power to learn how people are feeling. For example, they can detect the scent of […]

Many people think that post-COVID life should have us all feeling relieved, grateful to have made it through three difficult years and content both in general and in our relationships. Sadly, many people are feeling overwhelmed at home and with life in general as they attempt to re-enter their post-COVID world. We have all changed, […]

The flesh-rotting “zombie drug” xylazine has been wreaking havoc in the US. Now it’s in the UK. A toxicology report showed that a middle-aged man from Solihull, England, died from the effects of xylazine, heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. Drug overdoses in the US have been increasing over the last 20 years, with over 100,000 overdose […]

Drugs designed to aid weight loss have become popular in recent months, and while the best known of them is probably Ozempic, there’s also Wegovy and Saxenda.  Now another drug called Mounjaro has been added to the race, and although it has not yet received FDA approval, but the approval process is underway. So how […]

BBC presenter Naga Munchetty recently revealed that she suffers from adenomyosis, a chronic condition that affects the uterus. She spoke of how her pain can leave her unable to move and how a recent flare-up was so intense her husband had to call an ambulance. Yet many people have never heard of this condition, despite […]

Israel’s health ministry tweeted that Elon Musk was engaging with “fake news” regarding COVID-19 data, the third Israeli government ministry to comment on the Twitter owner’s views in recent weeks. Musk had replied to a tweet from Zero Hedge, a far-right blog site that features conspiracy theories and has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda. […]

Many benefits come from regularly exercising, including stronger muscles, lower risk of disease and improved mental health. But a recent study suggests that exercise may have another unexpected benefit: it might make us more tolerant to pain. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, found people who regularly exercised had a higher pain tolerance […]

Since the start of the year, abortion has been banned in 14 states across the country, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision has reverberated throughout the entire legal and policy system, the Human Rights Council-appointed experts said. “The regressive position taken by the US Supreme Court…by essentially dismantling 50 years of precedent protecting […]

Can cancer really kill in 24 hours? A US family says their “fit and healthy” teenage son died of leukemia just one day after he was diagnosed. The devastated family has revealed that their son, who was very active and athletic, died of leukemia just 24 hours after being diagnosed, which begs the question – […]

A “groundbreaking” bio-sensing technology that predicts the response of cancer patients to anti-PD1 – an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy – with significantly greater accuracy than current methods has been developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba. Since anti-PD1 is the leading immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients, such an achievement can […]