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Why Personal Appearance Is a Booming Global Market
Personal appearance is no longer a niche interest reserved for celebrities and fashion elites. Around the world, people are increasingly aware that how they look is closely connected to how they feel, how they present themselves, and how they’re perceived by others....
Anavex Life Sciences Reports Advances for Oral Alzheimer’s Disease Medication in Phase IIb/III Trial
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. has announced promising results from its Phase IIb/III clinical trial of blarcamesine (ANAVEX®2-73), an oral Alzheimer's disease medication, at the 2024 Alzheimer's Association International Conference. The study demonstrated that...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
Why It’s So Hard to Change Our Habits
X Reasons Why We Find It So Hard to Change Habits If you've done something a certain way your entire life, it will be incredibly difficult for you to change your pattern of behavior around it. This ranges from directly harmful habits, like routinely consuming harmful...
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Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
Let’s be clear: The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide at least 90% protection against a painful, blistering disease that a third of Americans will suffer in their lifetimes, one that can cause lingering nerve pain and other...
First leukaemia patient to receive pioneering treatment on NHS says it is ‘very sci-fi’
7 hours agoShareSaveFergus WalshMedical editorShareSaveBBCThe first leukaemia patient to receive a breakthrough treatment since it was made available on the NHS has said it was "fantastic" and "very sci-fi".Oscar Murphy, 28, who has an aggressive form of the blood...
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Has Picked Up Steam in Statehouses. Here’s What To Expect in 2026.
When one of Adam Burkhammer’s foster children struggled with hyperactivity, the West Virginia legislator and his wife decided to alter their diet and remove any foods that contained synthetic dyes. “We saw a turnaround in his behavior, and our other children,” said...
This California Strategy Safeguarded Some Medicaid Social Services Funding From Trump
When Virginia Guevara moved into a studio apartment in California’s Orange County in 2024 after nearly a decade of homelessness, she needed far more than a roof and a bed. Scattered visits to free clinics notwithstanding, Guevara hadn’t had a full medical checkup in...
Safe spaces needed for drug-addicted children, say grieving mums
6 hours agoShareSaveJoanna MorrisBBC Shared Data UnitShareSaveGetty ImagesThree women whose teenage sons died after becoming addicted to drugs have told the BBC the system failed their children.Anita Morris, Nicola Howarth and Kate Roux spoke to the BBC as part of a...
I spent months investigating whether gut health affects ageing – and if I could hack my own gut to age better
7 hours agoShareSaveHugh PymHealth editorShareSaveBBCGuts have become a source of immense fascination. Social media influencers promote unproven supplements said to boost gut health, whilst milk and kombucha brands promise to nourish them with "good bacteria".Some...
‘Abortion as Homicide’ Debate in South Carolina Exposes GOP Rift as States Weigh New Restrictions
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When a trio of Republican state lawmakers introduced a bill last year that would subject women who obtain abortions to decades in prison, some reproductive rights advocates feared South Carolina might pass the “most extreme” abortion ban in the United...
Millions of Americans Are Expected To Drop Their Affordable Care Act Plans. They’re Looking for a Plan B.
Robert Sory feeds a treat to a blind, albino raccoon named Cricket. Russian foxes, African porcupines, emus, bobcats, and goats are also part of his menagerie.(Blake Farmer/WPLN) It’s feeding time for the animals on this property outside Nashville, Tennessee. An...
Why the NHS still wastes billions on patients who don’t need to be in hospital
13 hours agoShareSaveNick TriggleHealth correspondentShareSaveBBCAs ambulances queued in front of Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading last week, corridors full of patients were waiting for a bed on a ward. Emergency department consultant Omar Nafousi was at his wit's...
Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient
13 hours agoShareSaveMichelle Roberts and Sophie HutchinsonBBC NewsShareSaveBBC NewsDoctors say they have achieved the previously impossible - restoring sight and preventing blindness in people with a rare but dangerous eye conditon called hypotony. Moorfields...
Doctors strike called off as union backs latest pay deal
2 hours agoShareSaveShareSaveGetty ImagesScotland's resident doctors have called off a planned four-day strike over pay.They had been set to go on the first national walkout staged by NHS workers on Tuesday, having accused ministers of going back on promises over pay....
Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.
NEW ORLEANS — From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits on a street with other empty lots and decayed buildings — symbols of the...