Category Health & Wellness

BAMAKO, Mali — Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see. Two hundred years have passed since the invention of braille, the tactile writing system…

Molly Stazicker and Sean Dilley BBC News Getty Images Accessibility on public transport for disabled people is a “national embarrassment”, a senior group of MPs has warned. A report by parliament’s cross-party transport select committee found “systematic” failings across all…

Dr. Joe Whittington, 47, has been an emergency room physician for two decades, but he can still find it tough to quiet his mind after leaving the hospital. As he tried to doze off after one particularly chaotic shift, he…

In case you missed it, Mercury went retrograde last week in spitfire Aries. The planet of communication, information, and technology will backtrack into Pisces on March 30 and remain retrograde until April 7—and it’s causing some mishap in people’s relationships.…

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., himself in long-term recovery from opioid addiction, says a national emergency declaration linked to opioid overdose deaths will be extended past Friday’s expiration date. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images/AFP…

The world experienced a “benevolence bump” of kindness during the Covid-19 pandemic that has remained, with generous acts more than 10% above pre-pandemic levels. The annual World Happiness Report found that in 2024, acts such as donating and volunteering were…

(MedPage Today) — There were clinical benefits to putting patients under a steady ultrasound beam during carotid endarterectomy, the phase III sham-controlled SONOBIRDIE trial found. Applied during the surgery for people averaging 80% internal… Source link

This isn’t the first time Jackman has reminded people to wear their sunscreen in an Instagram post. In 2013, Jackman revealed he had basal cell carcinoma on his nose, adding, “Get yourself checked. And USE sunscreen!!!”  Similarly, Khloé Kardashian recently…

Union Health is making a new bid to Indiana regulators to buy its rival hospital in Terre Haute as the door looks poised to close on such deals. The nonprofit health system is trying to leverage an existing state law…

If you subscribe to the “MAHA” approach to nutrition—the acronym for “Make America Healthy Again,” led by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—then you already know about beef tallow. One of the movement’s rallying cries…