The EU’s medicines watchdog said on Friday that the bloc was likely to get 40 million more Moderna vaccine doses by October, after an output boost at two new US sites. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) in June gave the green light for the US sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to produce ingredients needed […]
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Almost 40% of university students surveyed are addicted to their phones
A team of researchers at King’s College London has found that nearly 40% of students surveyed exhibited symptoms of addiction to their smartphone. In their paper published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the researchers describe their study and what they found. Smartphones have become pervasive in virtually all advanced societies around the world. And as features […]
Britain lines up 40 mln more vaccine doses from Valneva
The British government has exercised an option to buy 40 million more doses of a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the French-Austrian group Valneva for delivery next year, the company said Monday. London announced in September it had agreed to buy as many as 190 million doses from Valneva in a deal worth up to […]
Iran passes grim milestone of 40,000 deaths from coronavirus
Iran on Thursday passed the grim milestone of 40,000 coronavirus deaths, with the latest 10,000 added in less than a month, as the country struggles to contain its most widespread wave of infection yet. The Iranian health ministry announced 457 new fatalities on Thursday, along with 117,517 new infections, pushing the total case count past […]
3 Months of Full Body Workouts Helped This Guy Get Shredded at 40
When Mat Smith and his wife started a family, he decided to cancel his gym membership in favor of what he calls “The MatCave.” The 40-year-old senior design engineer from Cheltenham, United Kingdom, turned the garage into his own carefully arranged workout space. But then, as often happens, life intervened. Three years later, looking to […]
40% of men are unsure what their daily calorie intake should be
Men know less than women about calorie needs and limits: Almost HALF of men are unsure what their daily intake should be, study finds US researchers examined data on 6,267 adults surveyed about their health and eating habits in 2007 and 2010 They found 37% of men and 17% of women were unable to answer […]
Five-year survival less than 40 percent in seniors with DLBCL
(HealthDay)—Overall survival among older adults with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has improved over time, but five-year survival is less than 40 percent, according to a study published online June 12 in Leukemia & Lymphoma. Jaime Shaw, from Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California, and colleagues describe temporal trends in treatment among patients ≥66 years […]
A half-million fewer deaths from lung cancer over 40 years
Lung cancer death rates in men have plummeted since 1979 with nearly 500,000 fewer deaths than would have been expected if the mortality rate had stayed the same, according to the latest figures released by Cancer Research U.K. ahead of World Cancer Day. In the last 40 years lung cancer death rates in men have […]
Scandal of ‘barbaric’ secure hospitals: 40 people under 35 have died
Scandal of ‘barbaric’ secure hospitals: At least 40 people under 35 with learning disabilities or autism have died while being treated at the controversial centres Government has been vowing to close secure hospitals since 2015 Restraints are on the rise, with some patients being pinned to the floor Most stay five-and-a-half years rather than the […]
How to handle depression, menopause and the post-40 rollercoaster
Approaching menopause and depressed? How to handle the emotional rollercoaster after 40 Approaching menopause and depressed? You’re not alone: Expert reveals how to handle the hormonal rollercoaster after 40 All women between the ages of 45 and 55 will stop having periods and go through menopause One in four women who have never had depression […]