Category: Health News

Learning how to feed your body properly as you grow older can prevent diseases and other unnecessary complications from arising. In Your 20s: Foods With Protein Protein helps your body build and heal muscle. But active young people, especially those who play sports, may need more. Good sources include lean meat, fish, and dairy products, […]

First, the possibility that a COVID infection leads to longer-lived immunity than vaccination is not far-fetched. Infection exposes our immune system to several viral proteins, whereas the most commonly used COVID vaccines introduce a single antigen: the spike protein. This results in a more directed but also a more restricted immune response than after infection. Although […]

Calcium With age, you can start to lose more of this mineral than you absorb. That can make your bones break more easily (osteoporosis), especially for women after menopause. Calcium helps your muscles, nerves, cells, and blood vessels work right. You get most of it from your bones, which get it from food. Women over […]

Older people with prediabetes who followed a diet rich in sardines for 1 year show significant reductions in risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with those placed on a similarly healthy diet but without the sardines, results from a new randomized trial show.  “A 1-year, sardine-enriched type 2 diabetes-preventive diet in an elderly population with prediabetes exerts […]

Mnemonic devices — a set of letters or associations that help you remember things — are certainly helpful. But did you know that sometimes, they could also save your life? FAST for Stroke Symptoms The acronym FAST stands for stroke symptoms: F — face drooping (ask the person to smile to check) A — arm weakness (to […]

If asked to think of a camel, many will invariably call up the emblematic image of a humped animal crossing the horizon in a blazing desert. What they probably won’t think of is a cold glass of milk. But that might soon change, thanks to research uncovering the surprising therapeutic potential contained within camel milk. […]

Over a year into the pandemic, questions around immune responses after COVID continue to confound.  One question many people are asking is whether the immunity you get from contracting COVID and recovering is enough to protect you in the future. The answer is no, it’s not.  Here’s why. How does our immune response work? Immune […]

What Is Bladder Cancer? Bladder cancer typically begins in the inner lining of the bladder, the organ that stores urine after it passes from the kidneys. Most bladder cancers when caught early and the disease has not spread beyond the bladder, treatments are highly successful. But bladder cancer tends to come back, so regular check-ups […]

Internal CDC documents support the high transmission rate of the Delta variant and put the risk in easier-to-understand terms. The documents also show that breakthrough infections in the vaccinated make people about as contagious as those who are unvaccinated. The new report, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), also reveals the delta variant likely […]

The stark realities of antimicrobial resistance is Clear. Rising rates of difficult-to-treat infections, as well as Covid 19 infections leave people more vulnerable to serious infections that are resistant to antibiotics. Anti-bacterial resistance remain urgent priorities, experts say. For some patients, the pandemic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are intertwined. A lack of new antimicrobials in […]