Focusing on health rather than disease will make us all feel better
There is a revolution taking place in our understanding of healthcare, and it is shifting priorities towards maintaining health before we ever need to wrestle with illness (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
HEPA filters cut covid-19 sick days but we've been slow proving this
Covid-19 sick days were 20 per cent lower in schools with air-cleaning HEPA filter machines, researchers on an eagerly-awaited study have found. But why has it taken so long to discover how well they work, asks Clare Wilson (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Tall children may be at greater risk of some forms of heart disease
Tall 10-year-olds may be more at risk of developing an irregular heart rate in later life than their shorter counterparts, but less at risk of having a stroke (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Wildfire smoke is reversing decades of progress on clean air
A spike in wildfires across the globe is stalling and even reversing improvements on air pollution, raising the risk of lung, heart and neurological problems (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up
Conventional measures like blood pressure and body mass index only tell you so much. Testing your microbiome and metabolites, or even discovering your “immune grade”, can offer a clearer picture of your health (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Sperm sense what they are swimming through and adapt their behaviour
Bull sperm move their tails up and down with a larger range of motion when the fluid around them is more viscous, which could help them reach an egg (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Why is there a shortage of ADHD drugs and what can people do?
People with ADHD may need to search for their medicines at multiple pharmacies or see their doctor to get their prescription altered (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
A curious history of famous body parts
Suzie Edge is a medical historian who frequently surprises (and sometimes shocks) her TikTok followers with health stories of famous people from the past. Here are some of her favourites (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing about it?
The most recent review into the effectiveness of face masks has confirmed that they do help to prevent covid-19, but the intervention remains a controversial issue (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
You probably don't need 8 hours of sleep for a healthy brain
Largest analysis of brain scanning data yet suggests concerns about getting 7-to-8 hours sleep a night are overblown (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
We may now know how ketamine can treat depression for so long
Ketamine becomes trapped inside certain receptors in the brains of mice – and the longer it is trapped, the longer its antidepressant effects last (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Home stool test detects bowel cancer with over 90 per cent accuracy
A screening test for bowel cancer that looks for RNA in stools can be done at home and is almost as good at detecting the condition as gold-standard colonoscopies (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Our cells may boost their health by eating bacteria-killing viruses
Viruses that infect bacteria – called phages – are abundant in our bodies, and they seem to have beneficial effects when our cells engulf them (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
Migraines linked to rare genetic variants that could boost treatments
We know that migraines, which are recurrent and sometimes debilitating headaches, have some genetic basis, but the link with our DNA isn ' t entirely clear. Newly identified genetic variants could help in developing treatments (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
ADHD could be spotted by a score showing if you're easily distracted
Different measures of distractibility could be combined into a single " d score " to assess if someone may have ADHD (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - October 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
