- By Allen Cheng
For most infections, the long-standing advice is to take a full course of antibiotics.
Belly fat affects the odds of women surviving kidney cancer but not men, a new study shows.
From fairly obscure beginnings in the mid-20th century, the practice of yoga in Britain has become a massively popular pastime.
Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health.
UK employees have the longest working week compared to other workers in the European Union. But, despite the long hours, recent studies have shown this does not make the UK a more productive nation.
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes – fungi, bacteria and viruses – that are vital for keeping you healthy.
Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone watching a medical procedure on television or a donor at a blood drive.
You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health?
Have Americans forgotten how to cook? Many lament the fact that Americans spend less time cooking than they did in previous generations.
A vasectomy, or male sterilization, is a very effective, relatively simple option for permanent birth control.
The benefits of exercise may differ depending on the time of day when you work out, a new study in mice suggests.
As many as one in four women in the UK now give birth by caesarean section, the vast majority of them carried out by choice. The overall number has more than trebled in the last 40 years.
Salmon is not only tasty but is prized for being low fat and high in rich omega-3 oils.
If you’re a red meat-eater, there’s a good chance you’re eating more of it than you should. At last count, Australians ate an average of 81 grams of red meat per day.
People who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.”
Psychic or not, we all need to energize and balance our energy centers each day. The following exercises can be carried out every morning and throughout the day as needed. They will energise the body, pinpoints imbalanced areas, and enable us to attend to our own well-being.
According to the World Health Organisation, iron deficiency – a condition where your body doesn’t have enough of the mineral iron – is a global public health problem of “epidemic proportions”.
- By Malte Rödl
A few years ago, convincing meat-free “meat” was nothing more than a distant dream for most consumers.
- By Mathew White
The idea that spending recreational time in natural settings is good for our health and wellbeing is hardly new.
- By Walter Boot
You’ve probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. Hundreds of so-called “brain training” programs can be purchased for download.
It seems like every day a new study is published that links the bacteria in the gut to a specific disease or health condition.
To sleep or to snooze? You probably know the answer, but you don’t prefer it. Most of us probably use the snooze function on our alarm clocks at some point in our lives.
South Africa has the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world, with an alarming figure of 13%.