With summer travel in full swing, so too is the grog and fatigue of jet lag. Traveling across time zones disrupts our circadian rhythms, resulting in exhaustion, sleep woes, moodiness and digestive troubles. Why do the travel gods punish us so? Jet lag results from the disruption of our circadian…
In mid-July, the US state of Colorado reported six cases of avian flu – or H5N1 – in samples taken from poultry workers. This brought the national total to 10 cases confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since April 2024. The United States government has upped zoonotic/animal testing, and…
The Ivory Coast has received the first doses of malaria vaccine from the world’s largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, and began rolling out a new vaccination drive across the country earlier this week. Malaria remains a significant health issue in…
New Delhi, India – India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country could be eight times higher than the government’s official numbers, reveals a new study. While that initial wave of the virus caught the world off guard, leaving governments…
Twenty others injured after bus veered off a cliff in the south-central Andes region of Ayacucho, police official says. A bus crash in Peru’s Andes mountains has killed at least 20 people, a local police colonel has told Peruvian media. Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of a highway protection division, told…
A 500-calorie dinner paired with a shot of apple cider vinegar transforms into a celebratory feast when served on a hilltop terrace overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean Bay of Altea. Such is the magic of SHA Spain, the award-winning wellness clinic so glamorous that diet meals, ice baths and fat-mass scans…
Tampons, which are used by millions of women, may carry “alarming” amounts of toxic metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium, a study by academics in the United States has warned. The findings by a team of researchers led by Jenni A Shearston at the University of California at Berkeley (UC…
In the eternal struggle for work-life balance, most of us don’t know how to step back and unplug from the grind. A recent survey revealed that a staggering 54% of US adults work while on vacay, and whether they work or not, roughly half of workers feel guilty while taking…
Cookies. Pizza. Cake. All are delicious – but potentially deadly. In addition to their often-high sugar, salt or fat content, these foods can also contain a toxic ingredient that kills almost 300,000 people from coronary heart disease each year: industrially produced trans fat. Invented in the early 20th century as…
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe – At 5pm at the Victoria Falls border post, Margaret Tshuma – who has a 24-hour day pass to be in Zambia – is in a rush to return home to Zimbabwe before dusk. This is not the first time Tshuma, 53, has travelled from her rural…
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