Category: 6. Health

Dementia, the common and disabling disease that affects the brain, remains one of the world’s most urgent public health challenges. It occurs when brain cells are damaged or die, leading to progressive declines in cognitive functions, mood,…

Introduction

Peritoneal surface malignancies (PSMs) include primary peritoneal tumors, such as peritoneal mesothelioma, primary peritoneal cancer, and peritoneal metastases.¹ These metastases typically arise from gastrointestinal cancers,…

This study provides insights into the factors driving engagement in transactional sex among MSM in Ghana. In addition to identifying predictors of transactional sex, we also examined its association with HIV and syphilis. Although TS was not…

How do you take your tea? With milk, sugar, and microplastics.

What’s happening?

Troubling new research published in the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal has found an abundance of microplastics in teabags.

The study, which tested green, sage,…

Published in Nature…

This information was shared by Pham Manh Hung, vice president of the Vietnam Society of Cardiology, at the 2025 National Cardiology Conference held on October 18–19 in…

For a while, the “hot girls have stomach problems” trend on social media has been a way for women to destigmatise irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

By sharing content about bloating, farting, diarrhoea and constipation, users normalise…

For people with abnormally high blood sugar levels, losing weight is often proposed as the primary approach to preventing full-blown diabetes from developing.

A new study challenges this approach by evaluating the efficiencies of other…