HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam warned its people on Tuesday to limit outdoor activities because the air quality in the Southeast Asian country has persistently been at “unhealthy” levels for days. FILE PHOTO: People wear protective masks while riding on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kham The levels of hazardous small particles known… Read More »
Anthony Anderson’s character, Dre Johnson (L), is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the ABC hit … [+] show, black-ish. Tracie Ellis-Ross (R) plays his wife. (Eric McCandless via Getty Images) Walt Disney Television via Getty Images “If you keep eating cakes and cookies, you’ll get diabetes like me and your father.” Rolling my bored,… Read More »
More than half of patients can now survive a deadly skin cancer that was considered untreatable just a decade ago, say UK doctors. Ten years ago only one-in-20 patients would live for five years after being diagnosed with late-stage melanoma. Most would die in months. But drugs to harness the body’s immune system mean 52%… Read More »
YouTube just changed its verification requirements. Some users will be unverified and won’t have the checkmark by their names. Beauty vlogger James Charles called the change “really pointless.” It’s been a minute since the whole YouTube universe was turned upside down (who can ever forget that James Charles and Tati Westbrook drama?), but YouTube just… Read More »
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health issues and others. The New York Times: Don’t Forget Our Frontline Caregivers In The Opioid Epidemic America’s opioid epidemic will go down in history alongside the Spanish flu, typhoid, polio and AIDS as one of our worst public health disasters. Between 1999 and 2017, almost 218,000 people… Read More »
The ‘caveman diet’ which involves going for long periods of time without eating and then consuming as many calories as needed, appears to be hugely beneficial for both weight-loss and overall good health. Researchers at the University of Graz in Austria monitored participants who ate no food for 36 hours and then consumed whatever they… Read More »