By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 — Racial disparities in breast cancer survival have narrowed in recent years, but Black women with the disease still have double the death rate of white women. That’s according to a study that tracked breast cancer trends in Florida between 1990 and 2015. Overall, deaths from… Read More »
Vaccines are working against Covid-19, including the highly contagious delta variant — but the challenge is in getting enough people inoculated, according to a professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Leaving it in the refrigerator doesn’t help, that won’t prevent disease. You have got to move that vaccine into arms,” William Schaffner… Read More »
With the heatwave in full swing, dehydration symptoms are imminent. Doctor Naomi Newman-Beinart gives us the lowdown on the importance of H2O and why we should be drinking more of it It is sweltering in the U.K. right now and we are not a country that is prepared for this kind of heat. Am I… Read More »
By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A government and NHS Test and Trace advert on a billboard in London.REUTERS/Hannah McKay Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 3 June NHS Test and Trace system not tracing enough contacts of coronavirus cases The NHS Test and Trace system, which is designed to identify people who… Read More »
Q My mum is 71 years old and is turning into a complete monster. She’s got arthritis and seems to think that she’s the only lady in the world that has a disease and doesn’t care about anyone else’s problems. Both my wife and I are at her beck and call and we live over… Read More »
Doctors and scientists decry the decision to feature a celebrity-based wellness show as opposed to a science-based one, and some object to the use of the word ‘lab’ in the title. Some feel so strongly that they have cancelled, or threatened to cancel, their Netflix subscription. As CEO of the wellness brand, Gwyneth Paltrow is… Read More »