How effective are cloth masks against coronavirus?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of...
This therapy may restore body’s ability to produce insulin, treating diabetes
Diabetes occurs when there are not enough beta cells in the pancreas, or when those beta cells secrete too little insulin, the hormone required...
This study shows new method to detect Alzheimer’s disease accurately
Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, affecting one in ten aged over 65 years.
Early diagnosis can reduce the risk of suffering the...
This brain change linked to chronic back pain
In a new study, researchers have found a link between the onset of chronic back pain and changes to the nucleus accumbens in the...
How to protect your heart during COVID-19
Doctors and researchers are just beginning to document and understand the effects of heart disease in complicating and endangering recovery from the COVID-19 virus,...
Gene therapy could successfully treat this common eye disease
In a new study, researchers found that a common eye condition, glaucoma, could be successfully treated with a single injection using gene therapy.
This would...
Different types of COVID-19 treatment everyone should know
How individuals, and health care professionals, deal with infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, varies depending on the severity of the infection.
While...
As marijuana use grows, researchers want to know how it affects the heart
Although marijuana is growing in use – and becoming more legal – across the country, there is still much to learn about its effect...
8 reasons why COVID-19 is mild for some, deadly for others
Among the confounding aspects of the novel coronavirus is the wide range of disease severity patients experience.
While a minority of COVID-19 patients require hospitalization,...
This hormone levels could affect your risk of cancer and diabetes
A recent study from the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter found that having genetically higher testosterone levels increases the risk of...