Alcohol is responsible for over one in 20 of all deaths worldwide, according to the most recent edition of a World Health Organization (WHO) report that comes out every four years.
Wrangle up the right studies and you can make anything look deadly. Breakfast cerealâat least, the kind without cartoon mascotsâmight seem innocuous, and might be marketed as healthy, but thatâs no reason to think that every naturally-flavored bite isnât speeding you towards the grave. Nothing, in this world, is aboveâŚ
Coming as a surprise to no one who eagerly scanned the countless leaks, today Apple revealed the fourth generation Apple Watch which sticks with the wearableâs square-faced, minimalist form factor, but improves how much info can be squeezed on that tiny display, and the watchâs health-tracking capabilities.
Earlier today, a flight that had left Dubai in the United Arab Emirates landed at JFK International Airport in New York with 549 passengers and crew on boardâand was promptly quarantined due to a mysterious ailment spreading throughout the cabin. In the neighborhood of 100 people on board showed symptoms includingâŚ
Theranos, the fraudulent blood-testing startup which has despite an incredible amount of wrongdoing managed to remain an extant corporate entity until now, will soon dissolve.
Researchers looking into bizarre reports of U.S. diplomatic staff in Cuba and later China hearing troubling noises before developing symptoms very similar to brain trauma have pinned the most likely causeâand itâs not some form of mysterious sonic device, as previously speculated.
I am a bit of a sunscreen fanatic. My morning and midday sunscreen applications are ritualistic in nature, and I love trying out new products that claim to shield my precious skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. Luckily for me (and unluckily for my wallet), there are a menagerie of sunscreen products on the marketâŚ
Juul, the manufacturer of the wildly popular and allegedly very addictive Juul e-cigarette, is being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration for marketing tactics the agency claims were designed to result in the nationâs ongoing teen vaping boom. According to a Monday report in the New York Times, a formerâŚ
The EpiPen, a life-saving medical product for treating severe allergies, is in short supply as American kids head back to school. But Mylan, the pharmaceutical company that owns the EpiPen, has come up with a solution to the shortage: Expand the expiration date on some of its products. The U.S. Food and DrugâŚ
Thereâs a whole host of Google apps that people use on a daily basis, like Chrome, Gmail, Drive, and so on. But Google Fit hasnât really caught on like that. In an effort to improve its Android heath and fitness app, Google has basically redesigned Fit to better support peopleâs activity and wellness goals.
An entire industryâwith its own spokespeople, podcasts, best-sellers, retreats, truisms, etc.âhas sprung up around sleep. Give or take a contrarian or two, the message of most of this stuff seems to be that sleep is good, and that if youâre not sleeping seven or eight hours a night, you should be. And since youâreâŚ
Not everyone who is close to deathâor thinks they are, at leastâhas a ânear-death experience.â But those who do often hallucinate that they leave their bodies, meet otherworldly beings, see bright flashes and tunnels of light, and more. Those who take the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine, or DMTâ a compound foundâŚ
Americans who opened the newspaper on January 5, 1961, were greeted with an article by Associated Press science writer John Barbour. He described the futuristic world of the year 2000 and the great medical advances that would be achieved by then. And quite frankly, reading about all of the medical miracles we wereâŚ
A leading medical university in Japan wanted more male studentsâso itâs reportedly been lowering the entrance exam scores of female applicants for years.
At the peak of summer, when just walking to and from the corner store necessitates a shower and a change of clothes, air-conditioning can seem almost too good to be true. It is one of the few staples of modernity without severe and readily apparent downsides: all it does, or all it seems to do, is make things cooler,âŚ
From Disney World to Seattle, plastic straw bans have become, well, trendy. So itâs perhaps no surprise that San Francisco became the latest city to move toward banning the drink accessory, as well as unrequested napkins and utensils for deliveries and take out, earlier this week (it still requires a second vote to beâŚ
Are you always careful to apply sunscreen before a day outdoors, but find yourself getting burned anyway? It might be due to your application technique. Dermatologists say that most people donât put on a thick enough layer sunscreen, and new researchâin which scientists put varying amounts of sunscreen on volunteersââŚ
Internal company documents from IBM show that medical experts working with the companyâs Watson supercomputer found âmultiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendationsâ when using the software, according to a report from Stat News.
Being a millennial is no picnic. But a new study published this Friday in JAMA Open suggests itâs especially hard for expectant moms. It found that pregnant women today are more likely to feel depressed than their mothers were during their pregnancies a generation ago.
The execution of twice-convicted killer Scott Raymond Dozier in Nevada on Wednesday was postponed after pharmaceutical company Alvogen requested a federal judge prevent officials from botching an execution with their drug midazolam.
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