
COVID: WHO recommends two new treatments – here's how they work
Feb 02, 2022 09:15 am UTC| Health
Back in early 2020, if you got ill with COVID there were no proven treatments for doctors to give you it was one of the main things that made this disease so scary. Fast forward to 2021 and scientists have since uncovered...
Why do we bleed? A hematologist explains how the body prevents blood loss after injury
Feb 02, 2022 09:13 am UTC| Health
Ouch! I cried out, looking down at where my familys puppy, Hercules, had just bitten me. Two tiny dots of red started to bloom where he had sunk his canine teeth into my finger. Bad dog, I said to him. He looked up at...
There is much more to mindfulness than the popular media hype
Feb 02, 2022 09:10 am UTC| Health
Mindfulness is seemingly everywhere these days. A Google search I conducted in January 2022 for the term mindfulness resulted in almost 3 billion hits. The practice is now routinely offered in workplaces, schools,...

Three tips to help you stay motivated to keep exercising all year long
Feb 02, 2022 08:55 am UTC| Health
February. The month of shattered dreams and ambitions. The trainers are gathering dust and chocolate bars have replaced protein bars. The gusto with which we attacked our new year resolutions is a vague memory. If your...
Seizures can cause memory loss, and brain-mapping research suggests one reason why
Feb 02, 2022 08:54 am UTC| Health
Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some point in their life....

How gut bacteria influence the immune system and COVID deaths
Feb 02, 2022 08:47 am UTC| Health
The number of people who have died with or from COVID has varied greatly around the world. Peru, the worlds worst affected country, has had 6,067 COVID deaths for every million inhabitants and 88,345 recorded cases per...

Some cancers are preventable with a vaccine – a virologist explains
Feb 02, 2022 08:40 am UTC| Health
One-fifth. Nearly 20% of cancers worldwide are caused by a virus. These viruses dont cause cancer until long after they initially infect a person. Rather, the viruses teach the cells they take over how to escape the...