Taking aspirin on a regular basis can significantly reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer for individuals who have unhealthy habits like smoking, drinking or leading a sedentary lifestyle, a team of Harvard scientists reported Thursday. The researchers analyzed three decades worth of… S..
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Cutting back on sugar is a challenge – but here’s how to do it The average American is consuming more than 17 teaspoons of added sugar every day, double what most of us should eat. FOX 2 – Here’s the problem with sugar, it’s full of calories and lacks any real nutrients. Too much of ..
At least 60 people in Melbourne now have legionnaires’ disease, with a further 10 suspected cases being examined, Victoria’s health department has confirmed. Dr David Lister, the state’s acting chief health officer, on Thursday issued an alert that said the number of confirmed cases in the… S..
The night before her chemotherapy, Herlinda Sanchez sets out her clothes and checks that she has everything she needs: a blanket, medications, an iPad and chargers, a small Bible and rosary, fuzzy socks and snacks for the road. After the 36-year-old was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in… S..
Conducted by a group of researchers across the UK led by the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester, and published in Lancet Psychiatry, the research highlights the persistent and significant nature of these symptoms as well as the emergence of new symptoms years after COVID-19 was… S..
Brites, D. & Gagneux, S. Co-evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Homo sapiens. Immunol. Rev. 264, 6–24 (2015). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Stucki, D. et al. Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises… S..
WHEN David Slater started getting more tired than usual, his family didn’t think anything of it. The dad had recently hit his goal weight and was sporting a nice tan, which gave everyone the impression he was healthy. 5 David thought that hitting his weight loss goals was a good thing (pictured… S..
It is impossible, of course, to identify the precise moment we first suspected the changes in my mother were something other than normal aging. In my own imperfect memory, what rises up is the first morning of a weeklong trip to Rome, when my mother woke up at 2 A.M., got dressed and went down… ..
Cancer A new study has shown that when a gene is mutated and its copy number is altered, the risk of that gene contributing to the development of cancer increases. Although it was already known that both variations together promoted cancer, it had not been described how the link between the two… S..
In 2007, Jason Werbeloff, a twenty-two-year-old graduate student in Johannesburg, South Africa, spent months in bed with a severe case of mononucleosis. Every part of his body—his joints, his skin, his swollen throat—was in pain, and he passed the time staring at the concrete ceiling of his… S..