Mother, 34, is left with golf ball-sized hole in her head after surgeons removed cancerous tumour from her scalp — which she blames on sunbed use in her TEENS Doctors noticed ‘discoloured’ mark on scalp of mother-of-three from Texas  Biopsy revealed that it was melanoma — the most dangerous type of skin cancer  The self-proclaimed ‘sunworshipper’ blames her frequent sun […]

Loose Women: Denise Welch discusses health tips We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info National Age UK explains regular activity can lower an individual’s risk of numerous life-threatening […]

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published on the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) website, researchers published the effects of a homologous booster dose of the BNT162b2 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine in children aged five to 11 years. Study: Safety Monitoring of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Children Aged 5–11 Years […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a new case of Ebola in its violence-wracked east, the country’s health ministry said, just weeks after the end of a previous epidemic. The DRC early last month declared its latest Ebola outbreak over, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the northwestern Equateur province. Last week, however, the World Health […]

New research from Western Sydney University has revealed living with childhood ear disease and hearing loss can substantially impact the physical, emotional, and social well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, with the symptoms of Otitis Media often difficult to identify and mistaken for misbehavior. Published in Health Expectations, the study focused on the experiences of caregivers of Aboriginal […]

In embryonic stages, tactile stimuli simultaneously activate tactile and visual neural pathways. Shortly after birth, both pathways reorganize to allow separate processing of touch and vision. Waves of activity emitted by the retina around birth drives the separation of touch and sight, according to a study by the UMH-CSIC Neurosciences Institute published today in Science. This separation occurs in a […]

New research from the University of Cincinnati examines the barriers as well as those that are helpful in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in Latinx families in Cincinnati. Researchers identified primary barriers that include insecurities in food, jobs and housing and immigration. Key facilitators included having trusted messengers of health-related information. Latinx adults 18 years of age and older […]

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. It’s summer, which means that now is the time to focus on recipes that feature fresh produce. The tomatoes are lush and colorful, the berries are bursting with flavor, and stone fruit like nectarines and peaches are in their […]

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The EU’s drug regulator on Friday authorised a new technique for monkeypox injections that will allow up to five times more people to be inoculated as supplies of the vaccine run short. The jab can now be given just below the top layer of skin, or intradermally, instead of fully below the skin, or subcutaneously, as […]

Although a lot is known about brain alterations in symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), less is known about changes in the brain network early in the disease process. In a study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging last year, researchers discovered that the left parietal region—a brain area that is also affected in symptomatic AD—becomes unusually important in the brain connections of […]