Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for a nearly unprecedented second year in a row – down to 76 years. While countries all over the world saw life expectancy rebound during the second year of the pandemic after the arrival of vaccines, the […]
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Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are also in our bodies. “What […]
Dr. Leah Rethy is an internal medicine resident with Penn Medicine. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY hide caption toggle caption Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Dr. Leah Rethy is an internal medicine resident with Penn Medicine. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY Dr. Leah Rethy was pregnant during the first year of her internal medicine residency at the Hospital of […]
Researchers warn that a colorless chemical recognised as trichloroethylene (TCE) — which has been applied to dry-cleanse dresses, degrease metals and decaffeinate coffee — may possibly be joined to the extraordinary improve in Parkinson’s disease (PD) situations. They a short while ago posted a collection of 7 conditions in the Journal of […]
CNN — Consider three hypothetical women in their mid-70s, all living alone in identical economic circumstances with the same array of ailments: diabetes, arthritis and high blood pressure. Ms. Green stays home most of the time and sometimes goes a week without seeing people. But she’s in frequent touch by […]
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that he is “confident” the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2023. Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments to reporters at a media briefing in Geneva. “We are certainly in a much better position now than we have […]