Category: Health

amenic181/ Shutterstock Meal prepping is a great way to save money, spend less time in the kitchen and stick to a meal plan. But while cooking meals for the week ahead may be convenient, there can be real risks associated with eating bulk-cooked meals. It’s not that bulk-cooked meals are inherently a food safety issue. […]

LIMERICK, Ireland — Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) staged a series of coordinated lunchtime demonstrations across Ireland today, including outside University Hospital Limerick (UHL), to protest against cost-of-living pressures, severe staffing shortages, and working conditions across the public health service. The demonstrations took place simultaneously between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. […]

An undated photographic portrait captioned ‘Florence Buchanan’ in Lilian Adam Smith's privately printed 1941 Buchanan family memoir. A Memoir of the Buchanan Family, National Library of Scotland, Acc.9446/400., CC BY-NC-SA For more than a century, we could see Florence Buchanan’s science but not Florence Buchanan. Her papers and electrical traces survived, and her work placed […]

A few days after landing at Frankfurt Airport, several people who had never left Germany developed a fever. None had travelled anywhere near a malaria zone – but the mosquitoes that infected them had. That’s the theory behind a small but serious cluster of malaria cases now linked to the airport – three of them […]

Vinokurov Yury/Shutterstock The timing of a hospital appointment does more than tell you when to see a doctor. It can also shape how you get there. For some older patients, an early appointment can fall before their concessionary bus pass, which provides free bus travel, becomes valid. An unreliable bus service can mean having to […]

The woman worked in an anti-plague research facility. PeopleImages/ Shutterstock A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, Russia, has died just days after falling ill with an undisclosed illness. While reports of suspected plague have been circulating in the media, Russia’s consumer health watchdog has described the illness as pneumonia of […]

Volodymyr TVERDOKHLIB/Shutterstock Picking up a book for half an hour may feel like simple downtime, but reading for pleasure appears to do more than just entertain us. Research suggests it can support aspects of cognition and wellbeing, while also helping us understand and connect with other people. Reading for pleasure, also called “leisure reading” or […]

Roundworms. MRAORAOR/Shutterstock.com For millions of years, parasitic worms have had to survive inside animals without being destroyed by their hosts’ immune systems. To do that, they have evolved remarkably effective ways of dampening the immune response. Scientists are now trying to understand those tricks and work out whether they could be turned into medicines for […]

Eugen Thome/shutterstock Poorer people, on average, live shorter lives. This pattern can be seen even in wealthy countries with extensive welfare systems. In Norway, for example, 40-year-old men in the richest 1% could expect to live almost 14 years longer than those in the poorest 1%. In the US, the equivalent gap is nearly 15 […]

olesea vetrila/Shutterstock Smoking is one of the biggest causes of ill health and early death. Yet smokers seem to have a lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than non-smokers – by around half according to some studies. This surprising link was first reported more than 50 years ago, when researchers in the UK and the […]