Bei einer Konferenz der US-amerikanischen Zentren für die Kontrolle und Prävention von Krankheiten (CDC) in Washington wurden wahrscheinlich fast drei Dutzend Menschen mit COVID-19 infiziert Atlanta, Georgiavom 24. bis 27. April, laut einem CDC-Vertreter.
Auf der jährlichen Konferenz des Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) versammelten sich Beamte, die als „Disease Detectives“ bekannt sind, um „Spitzenuntersuchungen, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und zukunftsweisende Strategien zur Information über Verbesserungen der öffentlichen Gesundheit“ auszutauschen, so die CDC.
Ungefähr 35 Personen hatten bis zum 2. Mai positive
The fight against the ‘as old as humanity’ disease in Europe stagnated: Most recent data suggests that eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 is impossible if nothing changes.
In ancient Egypt, around 600 BC, a 50-year-old woman called Irtyersenu died.
After around 2,600 years, her mummy was found in Thebes, a city along the Nile about 800 kilometres south of the Mediterranean Sea, and brought to the British Museum.
After the first-ever medical autopsy of an Egyptian mummy, done by Augustus
There are many questions that haunt you after a miscarriage. Why did this happen? What, if anything, could I have done differently? Will it happen again? What would my life be like now if the pregnancy had continued?
Since attempting to start a family six years ago, I have had four miscarriages and — joyfully — one healthy son (now a very opinionated two year old), though my husband Dan and I never found a reason for our previous losses.
Covid isn’t over yet, but scientists fear the next pandemic is already lurking just around the corner waiting to pounce.
Deadly diseases like Ebola and Nipah — which kill up to 75 per cent of people they strike — are two of the biggest threats.
Others pathogenic hazards, which could theoretically sweep the world if given the opportunity, include bird flu, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and the plague.
UK health officials are constantly monitoring the threats around the planet, in
The patient in my treatment room – a busy working mother-of-two in her 40s, let’s call her Kelly – seemed desperate.
As her GP, I’d seen her a fair few times before – after the birth of both her boys, and every now and then for her own health problems. This time, however, she wasn’t herself at all.
Tearfully, she explained, it was her weight. Recently she’d started a new job in retail, and had been told there wasn’t a
As an American living in Britain for the past decade, I’ve had a front-row seat to two dysfunctional democracies hell-bent on embarrassing themselves. President Donald Trump warned that a hurricane was “one of the wettest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of water.” Prime Minister Liz Truss failed to outlast a lettuce at Downing Street. These years have not inspired confidence in democracy.
In Britain and the United States—and across most faltering Western democracies—this democratic dysfunction is routinely chalked up
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) — often regarded as the ‘silent pandemic’ — is the leading cause of death worldwide. In 2019 alone, it was responsible for 18.6 million deaths.
The same year marked the beginnings of the COVID-19 crisis, which revealed profound deficits and inequities in our health care policies and systems. Hospitals were not only overrun and under-resourced, but the prevention, screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases were also disrupted.2 This daunting global crisis, however, revealed something else: our
The widower who found love in an ethics discussion group. The man who got over grief and a relationship breakdown by joining a club that nurtured his passion for playing the guitar. And the women who found lifelong friendship wild swimming with strangers.
As diverse as they are, all of these people have one thing in common: until a few years ago they were desperately lonely but took the plunge to join new activities that would connect them with others
Your personality can have massive impact on your health, affecting everything from your heart, to the amount of hair on your head – and even your weight.
Multiple studies from across the world have found links between particular personality traits and both positive and negative health outcomes.
There is no ‘perfect’ personality either, with every trait both having its benefits and drawbacks.
A person who is extroverted, for example, is likely better in the bedroom than their less-outgoing peers –
Melissa Fisher (pictured before her diagnosis), from Portsmouth, panicked when she felt a golf ball-sized lump in her right breast back in September 2020
A mother diagnosed with breast cancer in her twenties has told how doctors wrongly assumed she was too young to be struck down with the disease.
Melissa Fisher, from Portsmouth, panicked when she felt a golf ball-sized lump in her right breast back in September 2020.
Desperate for answers, the air hostess saw her GP the
