Category: 6. Health

A growing number of young adults are walking into clinics with symptoms they cannot explain, and according to a Harvard trained gastroenterologist, many of these early clues point toward calcium deficiency long before bones begin to weaken. In a…

A LARGE-SCALE study of more than 300,000 adults has found that good sleep quality significantly reduces the risk of developing migraines, and that part of this protective effect may be explained by healthier cholesterol levels.

The research…

Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person’s risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.

Psychiatrist John McGrath and colleagues at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research in…

Our kidneys may be small, but they’re important to our everyday health. Kidneys filter all your blood every 30 minutes, while also removing waste, managing your blood pressure and more. A recent study revealed that chronic kidney disease is now…

When I first told my mother I was freezing my eggs, she asked: “So my grandchildren are going to be stored next to some Häagen-Dazs?” (Very funny, Mum.) I’m one of an increasing number of women in the UK who have chosen to put their eggs…

There’s fresh hope for early detection and new treatments of glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that have devastating effects on vision – and for which there is currently no cure. A new study has identified two natural molecules that play an…