Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO), both overweight and obesity are abnormal or excessive fat accumulation, which is a risk to health. In the definition a body mass index … [+32842 chars]
March is National Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Awareness Month, a time aimed at raising awareness for what is the worlds second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. With pivotal clinical trials for ne… [+5405 chars]
Take part in the Anybody and Everybody campaign to #ChangeTheStory around eating disorders. (Hope Virgo) Mental health campaigner Hope Virgo is calling on the government to take eating disorders mor… [+8527 chars]
Janet Handal was feeling optimistic when she booked her flight to Texas in early 2021. The 71-year-old New York City resident had just scheduled her first COVID-19 vaccine appointment amid news that … [+10047 chars]
An Omicron-like variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 -- one that appears to be highly divergent from circulating strains and sticks out on a long branch of the virus' family tree -- has been dis… [+4795 chars]
A team of researchers from Dalhousie and other Canadian organizations has discovered what could be the first link between a case of COVID-19 in deer and humans, suggesting in a new paper that the vir… [+4951 chars]
Parents can play a vital role in helping children with an eating disorder. (Getty Images) Parents are being encouraged to look out for signs of anorexia, bulimia and other conditions this Eating Dis… [+10848 chars]
Preliminary studies have suggested that the BA.2 subvariant could be more infectious than the original variant. Because it is believed to escape vaccine-induced immunity and immunity from a previous … [+813 chars]
Janet Handal was feeling optimistic when she booked her flight to Texas in early 2021. The 71-year-old New York City resident had just scheduled her first COVID-19 vaccine appointment amid news that … [+9922 chars]
Newswise — BALTIMORE, March 3, 2022—The University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Institute of Human Virology, a Global Virus Network (GVN) Center of Excellence, physician researchers played a coll… [+9577 chars]
A small study of patients suffering from persistent symptoms long after a bout of COVID-19 found that nearly 60 per cent had nerve damage possibly caused by a defective immune response, a finding tha… [+2398 chars]
A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server evaluated the efficacy of Pfizer’s BNT162b2 vaccine in children aged 17 years or younger after the emergence of the severe acute respiratory synd… [+4598 chars]
