Health
What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases
Neuroimaging research is beginning to give us more insight into the formation of our unconscious biases. Recent fMRI neuroscience studies demonstrate that people use different areas of the brain when reasoning about familiar and unfamiliar situations. The amygdala is likely to activate as we walk down an unfamiliar dark alleyway and hear unexpected sounds or…
Read More‘Smart toilet’ recognizes users and checks for signs of disease
A team at Stanford Medicine has developed gadgets that can be fitted in an ordinary toilet to screen urine and feces and upload the encrypted health data. The technology may be particularly useful for monitoring individuals at high risk of developing particular illnesses. Technologies that continually monitor a person’s health play a growing role in…
Read MoreThe Health & Fitness app to watch in 2020
January marks the annual “new year, new me” craze on mobile, driving downloads for popular Health & Fitness apps like Calm, MyFitnessPal, Fitbit and more. This year, though, I noticed an app on the top charts that I hadn’t before: Muscle Booster Workout, a subscription fitness app designed for men. As of writing this, it’s…
Read MoreAfrica will be next epicentre of coronavirus, says WHO
The World Health Organization says the number of known coronavirus cases in Africa has risen by 51 percent over the past week. It believes that the epicentre of the virus will move from Europe to Africa next. The number of reported deaths is up by 60 percent over the same period but the real figures…
Read MoreTwo-Thirds of Severe Covid-19 Cases Improved on Gilead Drug
Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental drug for patients with severe Covid-19 infections showed promise in an early analysis, raising tentative hope that the first treatment for the novel virus may be on the horizon. The report published in the New England Journal of Medicine tracked 53 people in the U.S., Europe and Canada who needed respiratory…
Read MoreChanging your meat-eating habits could mean a longer life, study suggests
Mounting evidence continues to suggest that eating too much red meat — such as bacon and hot dogs — is linked with health problems. A new study finds that changes in your red-meat-eating habits can be tied to your risk of early death. An increase in red meat consumption of at least half a serving…
Read MoreHow and when will this pandemic end? We asked a virologist
We may be approaching a saturation point in terms of coronavirus infections in some of the worst-hit countries. Eventually, the virus will run out of people to infect. But there are still many unknowns when it comes to this virus. More than one-third of the world’s population is now in lockdown as the world battles…
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