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Around the World cases of syphilis are on the rise, which is concerning for many reasons, one of them being that many people don’t know what the symptoms are. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that cases of syphilis had increased by 80% over the past 5 years to reach over …
America’s poison centers are fielding increasingly severe cases that are dramatically more likely to lead to severe harm or death in both adults and children, a new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals. The number of calls about intentional exposures that resulted in death among adults increased a whopping 233.9% between …
America is facing a rapid increase in obesity and morbid obesity, in fact, it’s an epidemic. Both obesity and hypertension (high blood pressure) are serious health issues that can lead to serious complications if left untreated. Obesity and hypertension have been linked in many studies, and studies have also shown that weight gain is associated …
Research suggests that girls are getting their first periods (menarche) earlier than ever before, especially those from minorities and lower-income backgrounds according to a study recently published in JAMA Network Open conducted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Apple. The study also found that in …
Global life expectancy forecasts have had varied results, some more doom and gloom while others are more optimistic. Keep in mind, that they are all just estimated predictions, and nothing is “set in stone”, the future is hard to determine for absolute certainty. Any estimates/forecasts as grim or positive as they may be, are not …
Myopia, or the need for corrected vision to focus or see objects at a distance, has become a lot more common in recent decades. Some even consider myopia, also known as nearsightedness, an epidemic. Optometry researchers estimate that about half of the global population will need corrective lenses to offset myopia by 2050 if current …
Global life expectancy has increased by 6.2 years since 1990, being driven by reductions in death from leading killers including diarrhea, lower respiratory infections, stroke, and ischemic heart disease according to research recently published in The Lancet presenting updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021. Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 …
The global population is expected to fall for the first time since the Black Death due to plummeting birth rates according to a study published in the Lancet. Overall, the decline in the number of women around the world having children is starting to slow the growth of the global population which stands at around …
A study published in the Lancet led by Imperial’s School of Public Health suggests that obesity is now a greater threat to global health than hunger. Finding that more than 1 in 8 people (more than 1 billion people of the 8 billion global population) are clinically obese as the number of obese people has …
Fewer middle-aged people are dying from cancer in the UK than at any point over the last 25 years, a new study from Cancer Research UK has revealed. * Published in the British Medical Journal, this is the first major study to examine trends in cancer incidence and mortality amongst middle-aged adults (35-69 yrs.) in …