'Sleep is about quality, not quantity' Why so many people are getting it wrong
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A regular eight hours sleep is recommended by medics, but it’s about quality of a night’s rest as well as quantity –…
Teenager addicted to vaping on life support ‘toxic’ e-cigarette chemical damages lungs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A US teenager addicted to vaping has vowed to never pick up the habit again after a “toxic chemical” in an…
Day 1: Just Diagnosed with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Being diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be devastating. Read More
EU medical watchdog probes link between Pfizer and Moderna's Covid vaccines and irregular periods after thousands of women report menstrual changes after jab
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Europe’s medicines watchdog today announced it will probe thousands of reports of women suffering menstrual changes after getting Covid vaccines made by Pfizer or Moderna….
'Deltacron' is real after all: Health chiefs are now officially keeping tabs on variant that's a merger of Omicron and its predecessor Delta
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Health chiefs are now officially keeping tabs on a Covid variant that is a hybrid of the Omicron and Delta strains and has…
England records its first ever Lassa fever death: Hospitalised patient in Bedfordshire succumbs to eye-bleeding virus after becoming third member of family to test positive following trip to West Africa
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A person in Bedfordshire has become the first in England to die after catching Lassa fever, the UK Health Security Agency announced…
Researchers find RAT-BORN Covid variant circulating in NYC sewage
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Reading Time: < 1 minute opjoejpojojResearcher The infamous rats of New York City may be more than just the city’s more dubious attraction. Some experts fear they…
Africa’s role in local COVID vaccine production stressed during WHO visit
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Reading Time: < 1 minute WHO Director General Doctor Tedros Ghebreyesus and Health Minister Joe Phaahla, along with other delegates, visited Stellenbosch University’s Biomedical Research Institute Read…
Want your child to eat more greens? Eat more yourself! Babies born to mothers who consume lots of veg during pregnancy grow up to eat more than their peers, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Every parent knows the struggle of trying to get young children to eat their greens at dinner time. Read More
Countries Struggling to Handle Covid-19 Waste - WHO
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health…