Heat waves make even nights dangerous
If you thought that health risks from heat waves subside with the setting of the sun, you are wrong. Sultry nights during summer, especially...
Young Kuwaitis under mental stress often think of suicide
A large number of young Kuwaitis suffer from psychological and social problems brought about by mental anguish from various causes, including disappointments and not...
E-cigarettes could be behind new lung disease
The number of people suffering from a mysterious lung disease as a result of smoking e-cigarettes is increasing in the United States, warned the...
Smart tattoos could monitor vital signs
Tattoos have come a long way from their initial association with bearded and beefy macho males driving around in Harley Davidsons. Tattoos have grown...
Meet Mako the assistant doctor
In a laboratory of the Joint Replacement Division of Stryker, a medical technology firm in the United States an artificial leg lies on a...
Liver transplants could be redundant with discovery of new liver cell
Treating liver failure without the need for transplants could be the future, if developments from a new discovery by researchers at King’s College in...
Check your child backpack weight
For the first time, researchers have calculated how much a child’s backpack should ideally weigh. And it turns out that it is based on...
Reducing just 300 calories a day boosts metabolic health
All it takes to reduce biomarkers of metabolic syndromes such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and...
Prediabetes does not necessarily lead to diabetes
Being diagnosed with ‘prediabetes’ does not mean you are just one step away from developing type 2 diabetes. While having prediabetes can lead to...
Blame the genome for becoming fattest primate
Junk food or sedentary lifestyles have been blamed for the current obesity epidemic, but long before fast-food chains or small-screen addiction came on the...
