Category: 4. Health

When chef Nelize Pretorius felt her vision blurring — first one eye and then the other — it was initially brushed off as conjunctivitis.

But when the swab came back negative, her GP and hospital doctors struggled to understand what was making…

This article originally appeared on The Conversation.

An increasing number of people are dying of colorectal cancer at a young age, including those as young as 20. Actor James Van Der Beek, who was diagnosed with colorectal…

With Antarctica added to the list, the bird flu has officially wreaked havoc on every continent but Oceania. That disturbing news was confirmed by a recent study led by Erasmus MC in the Netherlands and the University of California, Davis.

What’s…

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease…

“Exploiting scarcity is not ethical,” the WHO wrote in its statement today.

Dangerous trial

The United Nations health agency highlighted that the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose is “an effective, and essential public…

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders has found that depression itself may not directly speed up biological aging. Instead, body fat distribution, particularly around the waist, appears more strongly linked to…

Getting older might seem like a slow, gradual process – but research suggests that this is not always the case.

In fact, if you wake up one morning, look in the mirror, and wonder if your aging somehow accelerated, you might not be imagining…