Health

One of the many aspects of the modern world we often take for granted is the very technology that keeps our accommodation at a habitable temperature. Examples of this include centralized heating systems using hot-water circulation, or blown air ducted to multiple rooms from a central furnace. Certainly in Europe, once the…

Comment on this storyCommentA rigorous new study that examined the health effects of coffee consumption found good news and bad news for coffee lovers.The research showed that coffee has striking effects on physical activity levels, causing people to move more, taking, on average, 1,000 extra steps a day — a significant boost in activity that…

Cases of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris are now climbing at an "alarming" rate in health care facilities around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday, after reports of infected patients nearly doubled in 2021.For several years after the first American cases were reported in 2016, only a few dozen…

Illinois health officials are warning about a rise in dangerous strep throat cases, with at least five pediatric deaths reported so far in Illinois. The warning centers on the invasive group A strep throat. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Department of Public Health have issued warnings…

Malevolent creativity, or using creativity in a way that is meant to harm others, can be seen in members of either gender. But a study published in Brain Research suggests that though potential for malevolent creativity may be comparable between women and men, the brain mechanisms that underlie it vary.Maladaptive behavior can occur in members…

— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through the links below may earn us and our publishing partners a commission.We’ve all been there—you’re enjoying your day, feeling fine when suddenly your stomach turns and you look for the nearest bathroom where you’ll be spending the next few hours. What…

PEORIA — In the six years Jamie Harwood has been the coroner in Peoria County, he has never seen a case of strep throat result in death until this year. Since late February, two central Illinois children have died after being hospitalized with strep: a 4-year-old Peoria girl and a 7-year-old Bloomington girl. “Both were seemingly healthy…

An entire shelter of dogs – 50 to be exact – is sick in Cumberland County.Workers at Speranza Animal Rescue, near Mechanicsburg, are unsure what the animals have but said the symptoms are flu-like. The animals are coughing, lethargic and not eating.Volunteer Kathleen Crull said the dogs are on medication, and it's hoped they will…

If you or a loved one has been struck down by a stomach bug in recent weeks, you're not alone.Cases of norovirus - or the 'stomach flu' - reached a 12-month high in February and are still wreaking havoc, particularly in schools.At the same time, cases of Shigella bacterial infections are on the rise and health officials are concerned…

Summary: Focused ultrasound treatments help to improve motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease and dyskinesia.Source: UNCIn a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by Vibhor Krishna, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery at the UNC School of Medicine, researchers show that a new focused ultrasound…