Harvard researchers now say poor oral hygiene is associated with two types of cancer. Shutterstock/Dragon Images Everyone knows that brushing and flossing your teeth is one of the simplest ways to avoid cavities, but few realize the wide-reaching effects that oral health and hygiene can have on your general health. As it turns out, poor…
Birthday spoiler alert: If you want your mask to be a barrier to coronavirus transmission, you should not be able to blow out candles while wearing it. Florin Cristian Ailenei/EyeEm via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Florin Cristian Ailenei/EyeEm via Getty Images Birthday spoiler alert: If you want your mask to be a barrier…
The coronavirus keeps spreading around the United States. New hot spots are emerging and heating up by the day. The death toll keeps mounting. So how can the U.S. beat back the relentless onslaught of this deadly virus? Public health experts agree on one powerful weapon that's gotten a lot of attention but apparently still…
People who are over the age of 50, obese or living with diabetes or high blood pressure are more likely to die from Covid-19 than those who are younger or without these conditions.One out of five registered nurses and midwives in South Africa, as of 2017, was over the age of 60.A national health department…
Eastern Cape police commissioner self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19Leslie, a prison warder, said Andrew woke up the morning after the roadblock [1 May] complaining about a sore body. He suffered high fever on Monday 4 May, and died in hospital on Monday 11 May. He was buried three days later during a 30-minute funeral…
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As longevity science has entered the wellness zeitgeist, experts have worked to popularize the idea of healthspan over lifespan—the number of years you thrive, not just survive. And when it comes to the components that drive long-term health, muscle plays an outsize role, Gabrielle Lyon, DO, a family medicine physician and author of Forever Strong
3 min read HEART FAILURE. RECTAL cancer. Brain bleeds. Each of the people in this package of stories might not be alive today without a key medical innovation that took many years, millions of dollars, and countless setbacks and breakthroughs to get quite right. Who are the next people to be saved? Survivors Stories 1.