Health & Lifestyle

Global health officials have sounded the alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere of monkeypox, a type of viral infection more common to west and central Africa. As of Saturday (May 22), 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 member states that are not endemic for the…

Growing healthcare expenditure, better medical facilities, and rapid technological advancements have helped increase the life expectancy of people globally. However, geriatric population is more susceptible to cardiovascular disorders and lung diseases owing to a weak immune system. Elderly people have a less pulmonary reserve and reduced cough strength due to anatomic changes and muscle loss...

Cabinet approved $62.3 million for the troubled agency over the next three years, without debate and on the last day of the spring legislative sitting...

War is never compatible with childhood. Eurochild’s vision is that every child grows up happy, healthy, confident, and respected as an individual in their own right. Europe is experiencing a child protection emergency on an unprecedented scale. The war in Ukraine is testing the EU’s resolve to implement the Child Rights Strategy and the European…

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New research published in the Annals of Family Medicine examined whether an enhanced 12-week post-discharge telehealth program would lead to reduced hospital readmission among patients who were hospitalized for a medical illness and tested positive for moderate to severe depressive symptoms while being cared for as in-patients...

Using data from the REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) and the Environmental COntext Catalog (ECO) surveys, astronomers have found evidence of the basic building blocks of supermassive black holes in gas-rich dwarf galaxies. Growing, massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. Image…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully observed the May 15-16, 2022 total lunar eclipse from a unique vantage point, 100 million km (64 million miles) from the Earth — nearly 70% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Lucy was launched on October 16, 2021 aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket out…

Planetary scientists from the ETH Zürich and elsewhere have determined palladium-silver (Pd-Ag) and platinum (Pt) isotope compositions of 13 iron meteorites that formed early in the history of our Solar System. An artist’s impression of the early Solar System as the Solar Nebula begins to disappear, causing asteroids to accelerate and collide. Image credit: Tobias…

Animal venoms are considered sterile sources of antimicrobial compounds with strong membrane-disrupting activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria. However, venomous bite wound infections are common in developing nations. New research led by the University of Westminster and Northumbria University provides evidence that spider and snake venoms host diverse, viable microbiota, with isolates genetically adapted to venom antimicrobials…