TUESDAY, May 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Certain lifestyle factors can sway the risk of dementia, and a new study points to the top threats to Americans these days: obesity, physical inactivity and … [+5174 chars]
Dementia is also characterised by other signs like: forgetfulness, losing track of the time, becoming lost in familiar places, becoming forgetful of recent events and people's names, becoming confuse… [+762 chars]
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) on Tuesday announced the latest award under its $200m programme to advance the development of vaccines that provide broad protection against… [+4044 chars]
Stittsville is currently included in the high-risk area for ticks and Lyme disease. It is strongly recommended that you (and your pets) take every precaution to avoid ticks and the possibility of con… [+2651 chars]
<ul><li>Ottawa's active COVID-19 hospitalizations are stable.</li><li>Its number of outbreaks and wastewater average drop.</li><li>Six more COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the region.</li></ul>… [+3851 chars]
In the wake of the two sublineages of the Omicron variant spreading rapidly ahead of the South African winter season, the country's daily coronavirus test positivity rate neared a record, rising abov… [+2636 chars]
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is tough to diagnose. Its symptoms are vague and overlap with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), leaving patients as well as medical experts confused. Moreover, there is no… [+1962 chars]
Dear readers, get your flu shot early, especially if you have cardiovascular disease or your doctor has nagged you that you are at risk for cardiovascular disease. Short version: Heart disease and a… [+2879 chars]
By Barbara Pierscionek for The Conversation, Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a smartphone app that can detect early signs of Alzheimers disease and other neurol… [+4716 chars]
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a smartphone app that can detect early signs of Alzheimers disease and other neurological conditions. The app uses the phones nea… [+5286 chars]
SickKids Hospital says seven probable cases of severe acute hepatitis have been reported at the downtown Toronto hospital for children. The hospital said the cases are of “unknown origin” but do mee… [+1609 chars]
It's all too common for many women to battle a constant reoccurrence of the dreaded urinary tract infection (UTI). In fact, you may have experienced going to your doctor with painful symptoms of a UT… [+4946 chars]
