Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra answers questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2021. Greg Nash | Pool | Reuters The U.S. Covid public health emergencyContinue Reading
Mahir KART/Shutterstock In late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron “grandchildren”: BQ.1 and XBB. This means they will be monitored by health authorities, but are not at this stage regarded as variants of concern. If we think of the omicron variant as aContinue Reading
Resilience can be built in a variety of ways. fizkes/ Shutterstock Failure may be an inevitable part of life, but that doesn’t make it any less painful when it does happen. It can be be particularly hard facing setbacks in your 20s and 30s, since this is the first timeContinue Reading
Guangzhou city in the southern province of Guangdong is the hardest hit in the latest Covid outbreak. Pictured here are closed stores in part of the city on Oct. 31, 2022. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Covid infections are surging in the capital of China’sContinue Reading
Bogdan Sonjachnyj/Shutterstock Imagine you’re young, healthy and active. Then, one day, the rug is pulled out from under you. You initially have symptoms akin to a cold, so you take a lateral flow test, which shows you have COVID. But it’s nothing that stops you from getting on with things,Continue Reading
HEADACHES can be debilitating, so when dad Alex Stangoe was suffering with them, he got them checked out. He’d been struggling since 2017 with the ailment and initially, scans showed that there was nothing to be worried about. Go Fund Me Alex Stangoe was diagnosed with incurable melanoma and isContinue Reading
Blood grown in a laboratory has been transfused into humans for the first time in a landmark clinical trial. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images LONDON — Blood grown in a laboratory has been transfused into humans for the first time in a landmark clinical trial that U.K.Continue Reading
People may use 'mass gainer' shakes during the bulking phase to help build muscle. Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock If you’ve ever spent any time online trying to figure out the best way to build muscle or get in shape, you’ve probably come across a celebrity, athlete or fitness influencer somewhere advocating forContinue Reading
Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia is a new podcast series from The Conversation. Uncharted Brain: Decoding Dementia is a new podcast series from The Conversation examining new research unlocking clues to the ongoing mystery of how dementia works in the brain. Listen to the trailer now before the series launches onContinue Reading
The raw vegan diet is an extreme form of veganism. Foxys Forest Manufacture/ Shutterstock Vegan diets have become increasingly popular over the years, especially among people looking to improve their health. Indeed, a growing body of evidence shows that plant-based diets (including vegan diets) can have many benefits for health,Continue Reading
