Are YOU cursed with the mid-life middle? From cutting carbs to 10-minute toning tips, experts reveal how you can beat the bulge (and why beer might not be to blame!) Dr Sarah Brewer, medical nutritionist, reveals everything you need to know about haywire hormones and slowing metabolism Your waist measurement could be key to your […]
A Life After Cruelty: One Pit Bull Finds a Family to Love
Julie Sonenberg had been looking for a pit bull to adopt for almost a year—one who would mesh well with her five-year-old daughter Billie, her husband David and their 11-year-old Pug, Milton. “After we moved to the suburbs in 2017, I began looking for a second dog,” explains Julie, Senior Administrative Manager for the ASPCA’s […]
Refugee girls gain from effort to teach life skills
A yearlong program for adolescent girl refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa successfully promoted healthy transitions to adulthood within the evaluation period, according to the results of randomized controlled trials in Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The studies, which appear in BMJ: Global Health, were led by researchers in the Program on Forced Migration and […]
Pre-eclampsia linked to an increased risk of dementia later in life
Pre-eclampsia is associated with an increased risk of later dementia, particularly vascular dementia, caused by reduced blood supply to the brain due to diseased blood vessels, finds a large study published by The BMJ today. The findings suggest that asking about a history of pre-eclampsia could help physicians to identify women who might benefit from […]
Chrissy Teigen Says Having Kids Changed Her Sex Life
Chrissy Teigen is busy. When she’s not cooking up new ideas (literally) for her cookbooks, holding the Trump administration accountable at public rallies, hosting a hit reality TV series or making her millions of fans laugh on Twitter, you can find her parenting her two adorable children, Miles and Luna. Something you won’t hear about […]
Shorter life expectancy linked to 2016 presidential election outcome
Concerns about health and rising death rates may have helped tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J. Trump, according to an analysis of voting patterns and mortality rates in counties across the U.S. Findings from the study, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), were published online today in the Journal of […]
Haemophiliacs: Gene therapy offers hope of lifting life sentence
Scientists are edging closer to defeating a longtime enemy of human health: haemophilia, the inability to form blood clots. After trying for decades to develop a gene therapy to treat this disease, researchers are starting to succeed. In recent experiments, brief intravenous infusions of powerful new treatments have rid patients – for now, at least […]
UK is now ‘bottom of the league’ in improvements in life expectancy
UK is now at the ‘bottom of the league’ when it comes to improvements in life expectancy, reveals official analysis of world’s 20 leading economies (and the US is a close second bottom) Rises in life expectancy at birth for women in the UK is the lowest, figures reveal The UK is second in terms […]
Life Is Short After Dementia Diagnosis, No Matter Your Age
SUNDAY, July 22, 2018 — Your age doesn’t determine how long you’ll live after a dementia diagnosis, new research contends. “These findings suggest that, despite all efforts, and despite being younger and perhaps physically ‘healthier’ than older people, survival time in people with young-onset dementia has not improved since 2000,” said study author Dr. Hanneke […]
This Disney Princess Changed My Daughter's Life
“Mom!” My 3-year-old shrieked. “She looks just like me! She’s a princess and she looks like me! Look!" The excitement emanating from her voice was nothing like I had heard before. This was bigger than the box of Smarties she was allowed to eat before dinner, bigger than that time we saw Paw Patrol characters at […]