A mum has lost 17st in weight after she was told she couldn’t have weight loss surgery due to weighing too much. Laura Cain, from Southport, has since been honored as one of the UK’s top three most inspirational Slimming World smarters. The 34-year-old said she was “overwhelmed” to be honored in the 2022 Slimming … Read more
A contact lens that can release a drug if it detects high pressure within the eye has been created by scientists who say it could help treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is an eye disease that involves damage to the optic nerve, and can lead to blindness if not treated. According to the charity Glaucoma UK, the … Read more
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images A new case study suggests that taking too many herbal supplements sent a woman to the ER. It says she had a dangerously irregular heartbeat after taking high doses of CBD and berberine. Doctors say they’ve increasingly seen health issues related to herbal supplements. A 56-year-old woman went to the emergency room … Read more
Researchers at the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in the UK have made significant progress in treating cataracts using a drug compound, paving the way for new treatment methods, a university press release said. A cataract is a medical condition where the eye’s lens becomes clouded over some time and affects vision quality. The clouding is … Read more
Oatmeal is notoriously touted as a natural way to reduce your cholesterol. This is true! However, it’s a little more complex when you consider all the changes that happen to different types of cholesterol in your body. When you get your cholesterol lab work drawn, you will receive four different numbers: LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, … Read more
Researchers may have discovered the most infectious parasite in the world. Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic creature that scientists believe could infect up to 50 percent of people. The parasite is easily transmittable and is carried for life once a person has been infected. This may be the most infectious parasite in the world Image … Read more
FILE – In this Oct. 21, 2015, file photo, cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 11:19 AM PT – Tuesday, May 17, 2022 A severe outbreak of bird flu has continued to hit bird farms across the nation. On Monday, Pennsylvania … Read more
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expressed concern Tuesday about an unusual outbreak of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, suggesting there appears to be at least some undetected transmission of the virus there and warning of the possibility that the outbreak could spread beyond UK borders. “We do have a level of concern that … Read more
For more than a year now, the original COVID-19 vaccines have held up remarkably well — even miraculously so — against a Greek alphabet of new variants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. But now experts say something is changing. Since the start of 2022, the initial version of Omicron, known as BA.1, has been spinning off … Read more
COVID-19 cases are rising again — and some of them could lead to the condition known as long COVID, which brings with it myriad symptoms that can severely impact a patient’s life. Research on long COVID remains thin, and as a result its prevalence, definition and treatment is uncertain. Signs of the condition can range … Read more