Western Cape Premier Alan Winde thanks nurses and health care workers during a recent visit to Ceres in the Cape Winelands. PHOTO: Twitter/Premier Alan Winde Gauteng needs to have a strategy on prevention of Covid-19 in order to flatten the curve in the wake of the peak, says Dr Aslam Dasoo of Progressive Health Forum.Among…
Americans should brace themselves for another round of coronavirus in the fall, health professionals and economists say. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released its twice-a-year economic outlook on Wednesday, and presented two scenarios — one where the coronavirus continues to recede, and another where a second wave of rapid contagion erupts later in…
A doctor attends to a Covid-19 patient at an intensive care unit. (Fethi Belaid/AFP) President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that the country's hospitals still need thousands of ICU beds to deal with the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak.The government's modellers estimate we will need between 25 000 and 35 000 ICU beds between August and…
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A commuter wearing a protective face shield at London Waterloo railway station in London.Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 21 May Time is running out to prevent a second surge of infection in the UK The NHS…
3 min read ALMOST ALL OF the peptides sold on the gray market come with some questionable scientific data. As noted in MH’s peptide guide, a lot of health claims come from experiments that are designed poorly, work from a single lab with glaring conflicts of interest, or only feature testing in cells or animals.
The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month that it will begin routinely collecting identifiable, personal health information on more than 8 million
2 min read PEPTIDES HAVE EXPLODED in popularity in the past few years. While none have been more popular than GLP-1s (yes, they’re actually peptides too), another contender is emerging as a possible treatment for obesity. Meet the MOTS-C peptide. If you’ve crawled on the biohacking threads on Reddit, you might have seen it mentioned