Category: Health

Recently, a new study conducted by Andrew Rundle, DrPH, associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a team of researchers shows that the coronavirus pandemic may affect childhood obesity. More specifically, the research highlighted how the time spent at home by the children is likely to be higher due…

The coronavirus pandemic, which begun originally in late December of 2019 in Wuhan in Mainland, China has caused much concern in all countries around the world especially with the recent prediction of it lasting several more weeks. The World Health Organization has reported that though it has been controlled in Wuhan, the cases of the…

Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced an expected increase in the number of coronavirus infection cases in the state of New York in a recent statement on Thursday. He specifically mentioned the far-reaching effects of the pandemic with 92,381 confirmed cases in the state and 51,809 in the city. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted all major…

Every year, the Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is observed throughout the world in the month of April to raise awareness via campaigns and initiatives regarding the different forms of the act and the particular laws and legislations that help in its prevention and control. According to the World Health Organization, the practice of sexual…

For the past three months, the everyday life of people in almost all countries, as well as the world in general, have changed due to the rise of the coronavirus pandemic which originally begun in the city of Wuhan in mainland China. According to the latest statistics, the number of cases of coronavirus infection around…

The recent coronavirus pandemic has caused governments around the world to announce lockdowns and discourage people from leaving their homes in order to prevent the infection from spreading further. However, the World Health Organization has reported that the pandemic has continued to accelerate and additional combined effort is required to control it as soon as…

Recently, new research, whose findings appear in the journal Cardiovascular Research, looks at the role of air pollution as a potential contributor to various fatal health conditions and the number of deaths each year around the globe. More specifically, the researchers were able to determine the approximate number of deaths caused as a consequence of…

New research led by Megu Y. Baden, M.D., at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, looked at the association of sleeping patterns and the probability of developing type 2 diabetes in the future and found that maintaining consistency in sleeping can effectively cut down the risk of the disease. Diabetes is…

Recently, new research, which was funded by the Breast Cancer Now Generations Study, explores the factors determining the risk of developing breast cancer in women. More precisely, the researchers were interested in assessing how weight fluctuations may play a role. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in women and the number…