Category: 6. Health

The next new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease may be an already-existing drug, according to a team of researchers in Japan.

In a series…

A 36-hour fast has become a widely discussed practice among fitness enthusiasts who want rapid improvements in their health and metabolic wellbeing. Despite its rising popularity, Dr Sudhir Kumar, a senior neurologist at Apollo Hospitals in…

Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that a presidential initiative for maternal and fetal health has provided free, comprehensive medical screening to more than 3.6 million pregnant women nationwide since its launch, as part of the…

Summary: Researchers have successfully altered human reward learning using non-invasive transcranial ultrasound stimulation directed at a deep brain structure linked to motivation. After brief stimulation, participants learned faster from…

Radiotherapy, long established as a key modality in oncology, also has an important but more discreet role in the management of selected benign, non-neoplastic diseases. In this context, ionising radiation is used not to…

CancerWorld shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Workplace Discrimination Against Cancer Survivors

We talk a lot about surviving cancer.
We talk far less about surviving the workplace after cancer.

Despite medical advances that allow…

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals, following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.

This week in African health news: Global measles cases have dropped nearly 80 percent since 2000, but major challenges remain across the continent. Ethiopia is stepping up Hepatitis B prevention and responding to its first Marburg outbreak….