Health

Weighted vests: Should you use them during exercise?

Weighted vests have long been popular with athletes and celebrities such as David Beckham and former Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson. But interest in their use may have been piqued recently after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Chemical exposure may raise your risk for Parkinson's

Two years of heavy exposure to TCE, a liquid chemical that lingers in the air, water and soil, may increase the risk of Parkinson's disease by 70%. Previous research has linked TCE, or trichloroethylene, to certain cancers, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Fauci vows more testing as COVID's Omicron hammers US

Top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci on Sunday acknowledged a COVID "testing problem" as the Omicron strain overwhelms the nation, and he vowed to make more tests available to Americans next month.