The World Health Organization, WHO, holds a briefing to provide updates on the COVID-19 breakout that has killed more than 1,000 people. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC […]
“It’s so nice to be back in the television, I feel very excited to be here,” she told The One Show. “Because once you’ve been bed and house-bound with a fatigue-based chronic illness that takes a long time to be diagnosed – which sadly I know a lot of people will know – you miss […]
(NewsNation) — Using the weekend to catch up on sleep may reduce the risk of heart disease by as much as 20 percent, according to a new study. A UK Biobank study of more than 90,000 people showed the people who received the most weekend catch-up sleep were less likely to develop heart disease. “Our […]
The scheme is an effort to increase the number of NHS Health Checks, first introduced in 2009, that are carried out. As well as targting heart disease, the programme aims to prevent diabetes and kidney disease, as well as some cases of dementia among adults. Health minister Andrew Gwynne said that while over 16 million […]
The vaccination programme is aimed at protecting newborn babies and older adults against a dangerous disease. Source link
(NewsNation) — Researchers have developed a new blood test that can predict Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder that can cause symptoms such as tremors or speech changes. It is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder that is estimated to affect about one million […]
Roland Bleiker, from the Visual Politics Research Program at the University of Queensland, interviews Professor Sophie Harman (Queen Mary University of London) about her new book Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method and International Relations (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019) and her award-winning and BAFTA-nominated film Pili. This interview is part of a series events organised by […]
Further experiments, detailed in the journal Nature, external, showed drugs that are already approved for other conditions such as cancer were able to calm this excessive inflammation. These were performed using samples from patients with IBD. “We found not only how and why it goes wrong, but potentially a new way of treating these diseases,” […]
More than 6 in 10 Americans will have a cardiovascular disease by 2050, according to a new report from the American Heart Association (AHA). The report, published Tuesday in the journal Circulation, found that cardiovascular disease, including hypertension, “will affect more than 184 million adults by 2050,” or about 61 percent of Americans. It estimates […]
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