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Top 10 foods rich in lithium – and why this overlooked mineral matters for your brain
Lithium is best known as a psychiatric treatment, but in tiny amounts it’s naturally present in what we eat and drink. New research suggests this trace element could support...
Exercise
How Many Push Ups should you be able to do? Amount sorted by age
Have you ever heard that completing 40 push-ups a day can significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease? Push-ups are an effective and simple way to measure upper body...
Diseases
If your legs won’t stop moving in late pregnancy, your depression risk may triple
The nightly urge to move your legs in pregnancy is often shrugged off, but researchers now say it may flag something bigger.
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Letting your teen sleep in on weekends may cut their depression risk by 41%
New research into American teenagers points to a weekend sleep habit many parents already allow, with a surprising upper limit on how far it should go.
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12 Kidney Stone Red Flags That Should Send You Straight to the Doctor
Kidney stones trigger a distinctive cluster of symptoms, and recognizing all of them can help you tell a stone apart from a urinary tract infection or a pulled muscle before complications set in.
Diseases
Outbreak is now the worst in US history – over 18,000 infected
A summer of contaminated iceberg lettuce drove US cyclospora cases to an all-time high.
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Diseases
7 everyday foods that may quietly make your acid reflux and GERD worse
The foods on the NIH trigger list are not exotic, and most of us keep every single one of them in the kitchen.
Diseases
Measles can infect 9 in 10 unprotected people
Measles is returning in countries that once brought the disease under control. While most patients recover, the virus can cause pneumonia, brain inflammation and a rare neurological disease that emerges years after the original infection. With thousands of cases reported across Europe and the Americas in 2026, health authorities are warning that falling vaccination rates could allow further outbreaks.
Diseases
One in six people reversed their early memory decline after getting hearing aids
The hearing-aid trial actually missed its main goal, but a second finding turned heads.
Diseases
HIV can hide in the body for years: AIDS claim a life every minute
More than 41 million people are living with HIV worldwide, and approximately 570,000 died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2025. Yet modern treatment can allow people with HIV to live long, healthy lives without sexually transmitting the virus. The latest figures reveal who remains most vulnerable, where infections are increasing and why access to treatment can mean the difference between life and death.
Diseases
Your child’s hepatitis B risk could jump sharply if vaccine timing changes go through
A new US model took a hard look at what happens when the newborn shot is pushed back or left up to parents.
Nutrition
Heavy ultra-processed eaters had 40% higher odds of brain damage they can’t feel yet
Everyone in the study felt fine, but the brain scans picked up something that had been building quietly for years.
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Hepatitis A and B: One causes more than 1 million deaths a year
Two viruses can attack the same organ, yet the way they spread and the damage they cause are remarkably different. While hepatitis A is usually a temporary infection, hepatitis B can remain undetected for decades before developing into cirrhosis or liver cancer. The latest global figures reveal why both diseases remain serious health concerns.
Explained: COVID-19
More than three years after the global COVID-19 health emergency ended, the virus continues to cause hospitalisations and deaths worldwide. New figures reveal which age groups remain most vulnerable, while researchers are still investigating why some people develop serious health problems long after their initial infection.
Walk fewer than 5,000 steps a day? Your risk of dementia and stroke may nearly double
A year of fitness-tracker data from thousands of US adults suggests the number on your watch may matter more for your brain than you think.
Explained: Ebola
An Ebola outbreak has become the second-largest ever recorded, with thousands of deaths and infections spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The virus responsible has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment, raising urgent questions about who is at risk, how the disease spreads and why survival depends so heavily on early medical care.
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If your legs won’t stop moving in late pregnancy, your depression risk may triple
The nightly urge to move your legs in pregnancy is often shrugged off, but researchers now say it may flag something bigger.
Letting your teen sleep in on weekends may cut their depression risk by 41%
New research into American teenagers points to a weekend sleep habit many parents already allow, with a surprising upper limit on how far it should go.
12 Kidney Stone Red Flags That Should Send You Straight to the Doctor
Kidney stones trigger a distinctive cluster of symptoms, and recognizing all of them can help you tell a stone apart from a urinary tract infection or a pulled muscle before complications set in.
If your legs won’t stop moving in late pregnancy, your depression risk may triple
The nightly urge to move your legs in pregnancy is often shrugged off, but researchers now say it may flag something bigger.
Letting your teen sleep in on weekends may cut their depression risk by 41%
New research into American teenagers points to a weekend sleep habit many parents already allow, with a surprising upper limit on how far it should go.
12 Kidney Stone Red Flags That Should Send You Straight to the Doctor
Kidney stones trigger a distinctive cluster of symptoms, and recognizing all of them can help you tell a stone apart from a urinary tract infection or a pulled muscle before complications set in.
7 everyday foods that may quietly make your acid reflux and GERD worse
The foods on the NIH trigger list are not exotic, and most of us keep every single one of them in the kitchen.
Measles can infect 9 in 10 unprotected people
Measles is returning in countries that once brought the disease under control. While most patients recover, the virus can cause pneumonia, brain inflammation and a rare neurological disease that emerges years after the original infection. With thousands of cases reported across Europe and the Americas in 2026, health authorities are warning that falling vaccination rates could allow further outbreaks.
One in six people reversed their early memory decline after getting hearing aids
The hearing-aid trial actually missed its main goal, but a second finding turned heads.