All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant loss of life, disrupting livelihoods, and threatening the recent advances in health and progress towards […]
Category: HEALTH & WELLNESS
Sleep Number ComfortNext Review: Quality Sleep Tracking?
Sleep Number’s new ComfortNext Lux is the brand’s most advanced smart mattress yet, and a notable evolution from earlier models that focused primarily on adjustable […]
WHO and Costa Rica preview technology pooling initiative to ensure access to COVID-19 health products for all
Geneva, 15 May 2020 – Presidents Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica and Sebastián Piñera of Chile joined WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today […]
Generic of Combination Hormone Therapy Patch Approved for Women
The FDA on Monday approved the first generic of the once-weekly estradiol and levonorgestrel transdermal system (Climara Pro) to treat moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms […]
Acute Back Pain: Skip the Prescription Painkillers in First Line, Study Suggests
Although evidence-based guidelines have long recommended against opioids as therapy for acute (as opposed to chronic) low back pain, prescriptions for them remain common. Investigators […]
WHO and UNHCR join forces to improve health services for refugees, displaced and stateless people
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency today signed a new agreement to strengthen and advance public health services for the […]
Could ‘body clocks’ play a role in depression? Study proposes a new ‘circadian’ subtype
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Some people with depression sleep far more than average, wake […]
Case of mysterious medieval skeleton buried in Roman-era sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey finally solved
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter In the late 1800s, Westminster Abbey clergy stumbled upon a […]
Would subsidizing weight-loss drugs make health care fairer?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain GLP-1 medicines such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have transformed the treatment of obesity, but access to them in Australia increasingly […]
Who Am I Minus My Spouse?
Personal Perspective: Learning about myself without the cloak of marriage between me and me is among the challenges of being widowed.