DR PHILIPPA KAYE: Why it might be time to ease off your daily aspirin – even if your GP told you to start Last month, in this newspaper, I gave what I thought was relatively uncontroversial advice about acid reflux…
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Why you might not be the body shape you think
Hourglass, bottom hourglass, top hourglass, spoon, rectangle, diamond, oval, triangle, and inverted triangle… there are nine official female body shape classifications. However, new research shows that just moving the tape measure by 1cm could shift 40% of women into a…
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6 Reasons Your Ears Might Be Ringing
Everything seems just fine until you settle into bed for the night in your nice, quiet room. Suddenly, you notice an annoying ringing in your ears that won’t go away. What is it and why is it happening? That aggravating…
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EU hints it might not order AstraZeneca jab again
The EU’s internal markets commissioner Thierry Breton hinted Sunday that the bloc might decide not to order AstraZeneca’s coronavirus jab again following delays in delivering the first batches of the vaccine. “We’re pragmatic. My priority, as far as the vaccines…
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Which blood pressure number matters most might depend on your age
Systolic blood pressure is the best way to predict future cardiovascular events and death, irrespective of age, according to new research. But in younger people, diastolic blood pressure could still be important. Systolic pressure—the upper number in a blood pressure…
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Why Even Presidential Pressure Might Not Get More Vaccine to Market Faster
Americans are dying of covid-19 by the thousands, but efforts to ramp up production of potentially lifesaving vaccines are hitting a brick wall. Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are running their factories full tilt and are under enormous pressure to…
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COVID-19 survivors’ plasma might prevent worsening illness in older patients: study
Blood plasma from people recovering from COVID-19 could help prevent severe illness in older patients newly infected with the virus, a small new Argentinian study finds. The findings give new hope to the notion that so-called “convalescent plasma” might have…
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Need an IV or Stitches? Virtual Reality or Hypnosis Might Ease Pain
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 — Virtual reality glasses or hypnosis can relieve pain and anxiety in people having short medical procedures, a new study finds. For those getting an IV catheter or stitches to close a wound, for example, these…
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‘Smell Training’ Might Speed the Sense’s Return After COVID
TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 — Special training may help COVID-19 patients regain their sense of smell after suffering parosmia, a new British study suggests. Parosmia is a condition where people have strange and often unpleasant smell distortions. Instead of smelling…
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Combination therapy might improve outcomes in treatment-resistant liver cancer
A combination cancer therapy that is effective against treatment-resistant hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by inhibiting tumor growth and increasing survival has been identified by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In a paper published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer,…
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