Health

Zdravie a životný štýl

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 25
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 24
Cold Kills 20x More Hearts Than Heat, Major US Study Finds Health

Cold Kills 20x More Hearts Than Heat, Major US Study Finds

A landmark 20-year analysis of over 14 million U.S. cardiovascular deaths reveals cold weather causes roughly 40,000 excess heart-related deaths annua...

Redakcia 17
What Is Erythritol and Why Scientists Are Worried Health

What Is Erythritol and Why Scientists Are Worried

Erythritol is a zero-calorie sugar substitute found in thousands of keto and diet products. Growing research links it to blood clots, stroke risk, and...

Redakcia 19
What Is Sarcopenic Obesity and Why Is It So Dangerous? Health

What Is Sarcopenic Obesity and Why Is It So Dangerous?

Sarcopenic obesity combines excess body fat with declining muscle mass, creating a vicious cycle that raises mortality risk by up to 83%. Here is how...

Redakcia 23
What Is Long COVID and Why Does It Persist for Years? Health

What Is Long COVID and Why Does It Persist for Years?

Long COVID affects hundreds of millions worldwide, with symptoms lasting months or years after infection. Scientists have identified viral persistence...

Redakcia 15
How Cold Weather Raises Heart Attack Risk Health

How Cold Weather Raises Heart Attack Risk

Cold temperatures trigger vasoconstriction, thicken the blood, and spike blood pressure — a cascade that kills roughly 40,000 Americans a year. Here i...

Redakcia 23
Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression Health

Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression

A large Swedish study published in The Lancet Psychiatry reveals that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the need for psychiatric care by 42%, opening a de...

Redakcia 23
How Measles Causes Immune Amnesia—and Why It Returns Health

How Measles Causes Immune Amnesia—and Why It Returns

Measles is the most contagious virus known to science, capable of infecting 90% of unvaccinated people nearby. Beyond the rash, it erases years of imm...

Redakcia 26
World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year Health

World's Tiniest Brain Implant Tracks Neural Signals for a Year

Engineers at Cornell and Nanyang Technological University have created the MOTE — a wireless neural implant smaller than a grain of salt that recorded...

Redakcia 21
How Metformin Works—and Why It Does More Than Expected Health

How Metformin Works—and Why It Does More Than Expected

Metformin is the world's most prescribed diabetes drug, taken by over 150 million people yearly. Scientists are still uncovering how it works, includi...

Redakcia 19
How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction Health

How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction

Nav1.8 sodium channel blockers represent the first new class of non-opioid painkillers in over two decades, targeting peripheral pain signals before t...

Redakcia 18