Category Health & Wellness

BOGOTA, Colombia — An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what’s been pledged…

Dominic Hughes Health Correspondent Reporting fromDouglas, Isle of Man Getty Images The Isle of Man could be the first jurisdiction in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying A law to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man…

The nation’s largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots “masquerading” as therapists, but programmed to reinforce, rather than to challenge, a user’s thinking, could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others. In a presentation…

CNN  —  The respiratory virus season has started early in kids this year and flooded children’s hospitals in many parts of the country – especially with respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV. But adults can get RSV, too. Although RSV…

Your immune system harbors a lifetime’s worth of information about threats it’s encountered — a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you’ve conquered; others are undercover agents like vaccines given to trigger protective immune responses…

With the uptick in wearable devices hitting the market, heart rate variability (HRV) is still quite a hot topic. As WHOOP founder and CEO Will Ahmed shared on a mindbodygreen podcast episode, this powerful metric can help you understand your…

Bri McNulty, 23, won her dream job as a CDC fellow working on cancer prevention in Iowa, the state with the second highest incidence of cancer. But she was fired, like so many federal workers. Source link

I am 60 and I’ve been in a long-term relationship with my partner for more than 20 years. We have been extremely unhappy for a number of years. Our relationship has frequent conflicts over small things. When we disagree on…

(MedPage Today) — In older adults with diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists were tied to a slightly lower risk for depression compared with one diabetes drug class but not another, a target emulation trial using Medicare data found. Among 13,711… Source…

Experts, including psychologists who specialize in body image, agree — making comments on someone’s appearance can be harmful, even if you think you have good intentions.  Since you may not know what someone is going through, making comments about a…