People walk past a COVID testing site on May 17 in New York City. New York’s health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, has moved from a “medium” COVID-19 alert level to a “high” alert level in all the five boroughs following a surge in cases. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle […]
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Why trying to provide your family with ‘healthy’ food could be bad for them
The piles of multicoloured packets, boxes and bags in Amanda Duddridge’s weekly supermarket shop are typical of most modern families in the UK, with frozen pizzas, crisps, squash, flavoured yoghurts, breakfast cereals and cakes. Like many parents, Amanda, 36, really wants her family to eat healthily — the teaching assistant […]
What To Do On Bad Depression Days
Everyone experiences bad days. If you have depression, those days can seem particularly challenging. But they don’t have to be permanent. Symptoms of depression can take many forms and may manifest in different ways at different times. Living with depression is more than experiencing sadness. You may also experience a […]
Scientists identify how caffeine reduces bad cholesterol
Your morning vice might not be that guilty a pleasure after all: coffee seems to have a range of health benefits, but exactly how it affects the body to produce these results remains unknown. A new study has identified specific proteins that caffeine works on, which help the liver remove […]
Diets Make You Feel Bad. Try Training Your Brain for Healthy Eating Instead.
If you’re still tempted to try that fad diet, consider this: Evidence suggests that restrictive dieting and rapid weight loss can lead to lasting changes that may slow your metabolism, alter hormones that regulate hunger and hamper efforts to maintain your weight. A weight-reduced body responds differently to food and […]
New Drug Approved for Lowering Bad Cholesterol
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the distribution and use of Novartis‘ new drug for lowering bad cholesterol. Leqvio (inclisiran) is the first and only small interfering RNA (siRNA) treatment that can reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL). It is intended as an adjunct to maximally tolerated statin therapy and a proper […]
Opinion | The Pandemic Has Been Bad For Youth Mental Health. Omicron Scares Me.
Long wait times and insufficient resources for youth mental health are tragically common. Recently, in our emergency room at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, children and teenagers could wait an average of three to four days for an inpatient bed. This improved to a still unacceptable two- to three-day wait […]
when the cure feels as bad as the disease
Sitting in a hospital room in 2015, his partner Morna by his side, Willie Auld was told he had prostate cancer. He was only 63, and had had no symptoms, the cancer only being detected after he underwent some tests following a urinary tract infection. “What shocked and upset me […]