Health

Your brain needs proper diet and exercise too

Healthy brain aging is a concern for all of us. June is recognized as Brain and Alzheimer's Awareness Month. It's normal to struggle with small things such as recalling names—and we all experience some slowing of the thought ...

Endocrinology & Metabolism

Global warming projected to increase health burden from hyponatremia

Global warming is likely to increase the number of people requiring hospitalization due to critically low sodium levels in the blood, a condition known as hyponatremia. A new study from Karolinska Institutet projects that ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Can neonatal herpes lead to Alzheimer's disease?

"We've learned a lot during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic … how a virus can affect our behavior," Dartmouth University MD and Ph.D. candidate Abigail Dutton says in a short video that recently won second place in ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Warm weather in northwest Europe raises fresh virus worries

Much of northwest Europe is basking in unusually warm weather on Wednesday, prompting many people to throw caution to the wind despite a worrying uptick in coronavirus cases in parts of the continent.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU looks at vaccine certificates to help summer tourism

The European Union is looking at a common vaccine certificate to help get travelers to their vacation destinations and prevent tourism from suffering another disastrous year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Oncology & Cancer

Climate change will give rise to more cancers

Climate change will bring an acute toll worldwide, with rising temperatures, wildfires and poor air quality, accompanied by higher rates of cancer, especially lung, skin and gastrointestinal cancers, according to a new report ...

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