Sitting next to someone with a hacking cough on a crowded plane or train, hearing the friend you had a drink with last night has since tested positive for Covid, or your child’s schoolfriend has thrown up in the classroom, most of us fear the worst and wonder if, or simply just when, we’ll come down with the same lurgy.
With the winter flu and vomiting bug seasons well underway, Covid infections still circling — and now news of measles
Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent searching for cures for chronic diseases.
But there is a natural antidote that costs nothing and is available to everyone – exercise.
There is now definitive evidence that just 20 minutes of physical activity per day slashes the risk of cancer, dementia and heart disease by around a third.
That is more effective than some medications – and the exercise doesn’t have to be a yoga class or boring run on a treadmill,
This Morning hosted a segment on coeliac disease with Dr Zoe Williams on Tuesday, after the show’s agony aunt Vanessa Feltz came under fire for her ‘irresponsible’ remarks.
A leading charity called on ITV to issue a formal apology after Vanessa, 61, was accused spreading misinformation about the disease, which causes the immune system to attack tissues when gluten is consumed.
On Tuesday, Dr Zoe, who practices as an NHS GP in London, gave medical advice on coeliac disease following
The landscape of cancer treatment has changed significantly since Dr Ned Sharpless, former Director of the National Cancer Institute, completed his world-beating oncology training 20 years ago.
Astonishing medical advancements mean you’re a third less likely to die from the disease than you were 30 years a go. Since 1990, 3.8 million cancer deaths have been averted.
Many forms of cancers – such as lung, skin and breast – that used to be death sentences are now treatable.
Even those
U.S. patients with sickle cell disease now have a novel treatment option: the first-ever CRISPR-based therapy.
On December 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the gene-editing therapy for use in patients age 12 years and older. In addition to offering hope of relief for people with severe forms of the painful blood disorder, the treatment, called Casgevy, is the world’s first to genetically tweak cells using the Nobel Prize–winning molecular scissors CRISPR/Cas9 (SN: 10/7/20).
WASHINGTON — Scientists have uncovered a clue about why it takes so long for Huntington’s disease to develop. And they may have a lead on how to stop the fatal brain disease.
Huntington’s is caused by a mistakenly repeated bit of a gene called HTT. Until recently, researchers thought the number of repeats a person is born with doesn’t change, though repeats may expand when passed to future generations.
But in some brain cells, the repeats can grow over time
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding how it tracks diseases among international travelers, just in time for the winter virus season.
Travelers returning to four major international airports now have the option to be tested for more than 30 pathogens, building upon a program that tracks coronavirus variants, the CDC announced November 6.
This expanded testing, which has just started, will continue for three months as a pilot program designed to track winter respiratory diseases such
The photo speaks to us all about the inestimable power of friendship; about how even our darkest times can be elevated by hope and love.
When England rugby coach Kevin Sinfield carried his former teammate Rob Burrow over the finishing line of the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon in May, the tenderness of the gesture touched a nation’s hearts.
Rob, who has motor neurone disease (MND), was pushed round the course in his wheelchair. Kevin, his former captain at Leeds
Cancer now robs Brits of 14 years of life, according to an analysis branded a ‘wake up call’.
For comparison, this is one extra year than for patients diagnosed in the 1980s. And experts predict it could get even worse.
One leading oncologist said, on the back of the new survival data, it was time ‘to put cancer right back at the top’ of the Government’s agenda. Another demanded it was treated ‘with the same gusto’ as the historic Covid
It looks like any other county road in rural America, but a two-mile dirt track in Minnesota might be one of the deadliest cancer hotspots in the country.
All four of the homes in the two-mile stretch along County Road B in Dodge County have been touched by the disease, with the area now so notorious other locals call it ‘cancer road’.
Since the 1980s, fifteen people have been diagnosed with tumors, often rarer and more aggressive forms, seven of
