Mighty Asli

People in developed countries turn on the tap and safe drinking water flows, a dramatic health benefit they tend to take for granted. That complacency was dramatically disrupted last year when children in Flint, Michigan, started testing positive for lead poisoning and the source was traced to tap water.

Orang yang lahir pada musim luruh atau musim sejuk lebih cenderung untuk mengalami alahan daripada orang yang dilahirkan pada musim bunga atau musim panas. Tiada siapa yang pasti mengapa ini, tetapi terdapat beberapa teori. Ini termasuk variasi bermusim dalam cahaya matahari (yang boleh menjejaskan tahap vitamin D), tahap alergen seperti debunga dan rumah debu hama.

As a young child I recall my grandmother giving me the largest spoonfuls of cod liver oil, coaxing me with the promise of an equally large spoonful of golden syrup. It was probably a throwback to her own childhood when the post-war government sought to provide infants with a cod liver oil supplement.

Imagine that pesky tabby cat has been pooing in your backyard again. Unbeknown to you, it has transferred some of the parasite spores it was carrying onto your herb garden. Unintentionally, while preparing a tasty salad, you forget to wash your hands and infect yourself with the Toxoplasma gondii spores.

Australian governments have agreed on a new national standard for labelling “free range” eggs, in a bid to clear up years of consumer confusion. The standard will be legally enforceable under Australian consumer law from next year.

Serious illness is a great calamity. It is unwelcome, violent, frightening and painful. If it is life threatening, it requires the ill person and their loved ones to confront death. Illness causes pain, anxiety, incapacitation; it limits what the ill person can do. It can cut a life short, stop plans in their tracks, and detach people from life,

Lynch syndrome is a common, inherited condition that affects thousands of Australians and greatly increases the risk of developing cancer. Yet 95% of those who have it don’t know about it.

Patients with prostate cancer in England and Wales will now have early access to abiraterone, a drug which can delay the need for chemotherapy. The drug previously cost £3,000 a month, and was not considered “cost-effective” for the NHS until cancers were more advanced – even though patients in Scotland had access to it.

Sekitar half of Australians have private health insurance. Most of us know that if we need to see a private specialist, we may face some out-of-pocket fees between what the doctor charges and the rebate we receive from Medicare and, if we’re having a procedure or operation, our private health fund.

tidur miskin boleh membuat kita berasa murung, bimbang dan tertekan. Jadi ia tidak menghairankan bahawa bagaimana kita tidur mempunyai kesan langsung kepada kesihatan fizikal dan mental kita. masalah tidur seperti insomnia adalah gejala yang biasa banyak penyakit mental, termasuk keresahan, kemurungan, skizofrenia, gangguan bipolar dan gangguan hiperaktif defisit perhatian (ADHD).

Nutritional guidelines and recommendations are constantly changing in the light of new research. It can be difficult to keep up with which foods are healthy and which aren’t. Here we look at five foods that have gone through the cycle of being the villains of nutritional science but are now, based on some old and some new science, apparently okay to eat again.

It’s fair to say that frozen food has a bit of an image problem. One in three Britons believe it is inferior to fresh food, and 43% say that nothing could persuade them to buy more frozen fare.

penyalahgunaan produk candu yang diperolehi daripada tumbuhan popi bermula sejak abad, Tetapi hari ini kita sedang menyaksikan contoh pertama penyalahgunaan meluas undang-undang, ubat-ubatan yang ditetapkan yang, manakala struktur yang serupa dengan opioid haram seperti heroin, digunakan untuk bunyi perubatan

The main aim of the UK’s new tax on sugary soft drinks is to reduce obesity in children. But, apart from causing child – and adult – obesity, too much sugar also increases the risk of many serious diseases, from cancer to heart disease. And sugar’s calories provide only part of the explanation.