A study has found that people whose weight reduced from indicating obesity to indicating overweight between early adulthood and midlife had a halved risk of dying during the follow-up period.Share on PinterestResearch suggests that a reduction in BMI, from one of obesity to one of overweight, by midlife may improve longevity.The World Health Organization (WHO)…
A poll of 2,000 people aged 50–80 years reveals their positive views of aging and the negative effects linked to ageism.Share on PinterestA recent survey suggests most older adults are feeling positive about the aging process.Around two-thirds of people over the age of 50 say that life as an older person is better than they…
TOPLINE Around a third of U.S. adults who contracted Covid-19 had still not returned to full health two or three weeks after testing positive, according to a study from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention published Friday, shedding light on the long-term nature of the illness. FLORIDA, USA - JULY 24: General view of…
Even with case counts and death tolls climbing across the US, many Americans have clung to the hope that, if they contracted the coronavirus, the illness would pass quickly or even asymptomatically. A new study released today by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, however, shows that a large percentage of the US may…
TOPLINE Around 40% of adults in the United States possess one of the five underlying medical conditions that most prominently lead to severe symptoms upon contracting Covid-19, with the highest prevalence in Southern states that are currently seeing surging daily case totals, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published Thursday. A…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…