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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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Readers Balk at ‘Gold Standard’ of Autism Treatment
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. KFF Health News received dozens of letters in response to an article last month describing how state budget...
GOP Promotes MAHA Agenda in Bid To Avert Midterm Losses. Dems Point to Contradictions.
When a “Make America Healthy Again” summit was held at the posh Waldorf Astoria in Washington, the line of attendees stretched down the block. The daylong, invitation-only event in November featured a who’s who of MAHA luminaries. Vice President JD Vance attended, as...
The hospitals where waiting times are getting worse. Is yours one of them?
5 hours agoShareSaveNick Triggle,Health correspondentandDaniel Wainwright,BBC VerifyShareSaveGetty ImagesNearly a quarter of hospitals in England have seen waiting times worsen since the government published its plan to tackle the backlog a year ago, BBC analysis...
Cancer patients ‘warned for years’ about hospital water infections
1 hour agoShareSavePaul O'Hare,BBC ScotlandandLisa Summers,Scotland health and social care correspondentShareSaveThe father of a woman whose death is being investigated by prosecutors said a health board was "warned for years" about issues with a hospital water system...
Alzheimer’s finger-prick test could help diagnosis
13 hours agoShareSaveFergus WalshMedical editorShareSaveBBCAn international trial is examining whether a finger-prick blood test could be used to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease.The study, involving 1,000 volunteers aged over 60 in the UK, US and Canada, will aim to...