881 Shares Statistics relating to strokes and falls are bleak, with research revealing that strokes can increase the risk of falling by 4 times and drastically increase the risk of breaking a hip following a fall. Approximately 80% of individuals who have strokes will also have impaired balance to some degree. A study which presented… Read More: Can Yoga Help Improve Balance for Stroke Victims? »
It is deeply disheartening for me to reflect on how health care information was miscommunicated so often by so many different players in 2020. In my 47-year career, I never saw a President, his Administration, some federal health agency leaders, many elected officials and so many others distort and deceive and mislead Americans so often… Read More: Reflections on 2020: You can’t mask this reality »
It feels like we just basked in the warm glow of her beauty, but we can thank the BRIT Awards this year for Dua Lipa’s fiery hot dress on the red carpet! The long-legged siren graced the Red Carpet for the esteemed awards with no intention of holding back. Jaws were dropped and hearts were… Read More: Dua Lipa Absolutely Stunning at the BRIT Awards 2021 »
A large-scale randomised trial of annual screening for ovarian cancer, led by UCL researchers, did not succeed in reducing deaths from the disease, despite one of the screening methods tested detecting cancers earlier. Results from the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) have been published in a report in the medical journal The… Read More: Screening for ovarian cancer did not reduce early deaths »