Health

Zdravie a životný štýl

How GLP-1 Drugs Work—and Why They Do More Than Expected Health

How GLP-1 Drugs Work—and Why They Do More Than Expected

GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide mimic a gut hormone to curb appetite and lower blood sugar, but emerging research shows they may also protect...

Redakcia 11
What Is BMI and Why Experts Say It's Flawed Health

What Is BMI and Why Experts Say It's Flawed

Body mass index has guided medical decisions for decades, yet scientists and physicians increasingly warn that this 200-year-old formula misclassifies...

Redakcia 15
New Drug and Blood Test Could Transform Preventive Medicine Health

New Drug and Blood Test Could Transform Preventive Medicine

Baxdrostat shows breakthrough results for resistant hypertension in Phase 3 trials, while the Galleri multi-cancer blood test detects over 50 cancer t...

Redakcia 22
How Cartilage Works—and Why It Can't Heal Itself Health

How Cartilage Works—and Why It Can't Heal Itself

Cartilage is the smooth, rubbery tissue that cushions every joint in the body, yet it is one of the few tissues that cannot repair itself after damage...

Redakcia 16
Sweeping Reforms Proposed to Tackle Billions in Healthcare Deficit Health

Sweeping Reforms Proposed to Tackle Billions in Healthcare Deficit

A government expert commission has presented 66 reform proposals aimed at closing the statutory health insurance funding gap of over 15 billion euros....

Redakcia 20
COVID Variant 'Cicada' Confirmed in the Czech Republic: What We Know Health

COVID Variant 'Cicada' Confirmed in the Czech Republic: What We Know

A new COVID variant, BA.3.2, nicknamed 'Cicada,' has been confirmed in the Czech Republic. It is characterized by increased resistance to antibodies....

Redakcia 16
GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic May Sharply Cut Depression and Anxiety Health

GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic May Sharply Cut Depression and Anxiety

A landmark Swedish study of over 95,000 patients published in The Lancet Psychiatry finds semaglutide users experienced 42% lower risk of worsening me...

Redakcia 15
What Is Resistant Hypertension and Why It Won't Drop Health

What Is Resistant Hypertension and Why It Won't Drop

Resistant hypertension affects millions whose blood pressure stays dangerously high despite three or more medications. New research points to hidden h...

Redakcia 14
How E-Cigarettes Work—and What Science Says Health

How E-Cigarettes Work—and What Science Says

E-cigarettes heat nicotine liquid into an inhalable aerosol instead of burning tobacco. The science on whether they help smokers quit—or create new he...

Redakcia 15
Sarcopenic Obesity Increases Mortality by 83% Health

Sarcopenic Obesity Increases Mortality by 83%

A 12-year follow-up study has found that the combination of abdominal fat and low muscle mass – sarcopenic obesity – increases the risk of all-cause m...

Redakcia 21
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spreads in Cyprus and Greece, Slovakia Sends Aid Health

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spreads in Cyprus and Greece, Slovakia Sends Aid

A year after its own outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Slovakia is sending four veterinarians to help Cyprus, where nearly 30,000 animals have been...

Redakcia 21
How Kidney Stones Form—and Why They Keep Coming Back Health

How Kidney Stones Form—and Why They Keep Coming Back

Kidney stones affect one in ten adults and are growing more common worldwide. Here is how these painful crystals form inside the body, what types exis...

Redakcia 19