We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Carolyn Pallister has got six golden rules people need to live their life by in order to reduce their risk of a stroke. What are they? Find out here. “Every five minutes stroke destroys lives,” she says. […]
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A report published today by the Public Accounts Committee says the NHS and the Department for Health & Social Care (DHSC) have a long way to go to deal with and move on from, the legacy of their track record of failed IT programmes. The report also highlights the absence of achieving its paperless target by 2018 and adds that, […]
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(HealthDay)—Face masks: Yes, they may not be the most pleasant item to wear, but they are not depriving people of needed oxygen, a new study confirms. The findings should counter a common anti-mask myth—that donning a face mask is unhealthy. Claims that masks reduce oxygen supplies, cause carbon dioxide “intoxication” and weaken the immune system have gained steam, fueled in […]
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As millions across Europe face new lockdown measures to tackle the resurging coronavirus, Finland is bucking the trend: infection rates are falling, while attitudes to restrictions remain the most positive on the continent. Although much international attention has been focused on next-door Sweden’s light-touch response to the virus, Finland has quietly succeeded in keeping infection levels five times below the […]
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Don’t blame the cold weather for COVID: Heat does not stop the virus from spreading and travel is the biggest driver of transmission, study suggests Researchers looked at how coronavirus spread in the US between March and July 2020, comparing temperature with cellphone data Weather had little influence on the spread of coronavirus at no more than 3% both state-wide […]
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Pfizer coronavirus vaccine volunteer details experience: ‘Get it as soon as you can’ Pfizer vaccine volunteer, Glenn Deshields, tells ‘Fox & Friends’ about his experience with the COVID-19 vaccine. While Pfizer’s recent announcement of a more than 90% effective coronavirus vaccine candidate sparked hope for many, an Alabama official joins those cautioning over the excitement. “Even if we find out, in […]
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Team sport effectively counteracts diminished vascular function in women with high blood pressure, even several years after the onset of menopause. This, according to new research from the Copenhagen Center for Team Sports and Health at Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen. Estrogen loss associated with transition into menopause increases women’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease and […]
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Halloween calls for certain traditions, like dressing up in costumes, eating candy, and watching scary movies. And if you're Courteney Cox, you might even come up with a new Halloween tradition, like recreating an infamous hairstyle from the scary movie you were in. Cox is well aware of how much her Scream-franchise character Gale Weather's hairstyles are mocked — especially […]
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COVID-19 can do some pretty scary things to the human heart. It can trigger blood clots in severe cases and cause inflammation and scarring. New research now shows that even young people with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic are at risk for developing potentially dangerous inflammation around the heart. I am an imaging cardiologist who is developing diagnostic techniques to assess […]
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Preventing heart attacks and strokes in type 2 diabetes patients managed in primary care should be an urgent priority. That’s the conclusion of a study published on World Diabetes Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “The most striking result of our study was that the vast majority of patients […]
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