Health & Fitness

Steph Claire Smith pens a letter to other new mums dealing with body changes after birth. 

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The couple open up about overwhelm, wedding plans and why Falkiner's experience of pregnancy was “hell”.

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In the third instalment of her monthly interview series on resilience, Sophie Delezio speaks to Sauvage about learning to love her disability and proving the naysayers wrong

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When the coronavirus pandemic began, much of the medical community’s might was fixated on vaccines. But what about treatments and even a cure?

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A 15-center study of 175 patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes found that continuous glucose monitoring, compared to blood glucose meter monitoring, or finger pricking, significantly decreased their hemoglobin A1C over eight months.

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Scientists have developed a statistical framework that incorporates key COVID-19 data -- such as case counts and deaths due to COVID-19 -- to model the true prevalence of this disease in the United States and individual states. Their approach projects that in the U.S. as many as 60 percent of COVID-19 cases went undetected as of March 7, 2021, the last date for which the dataset they employed is available.

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A new study reports that among individuals who had an allergic reaction to their first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose, all who went on to receive a second dose tolerated it. Even some who experienced anaphylaxis following the first dose tolerated the second dose.

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Contrary to rife misinformation, researchers have found there is no link between the COVID vaccines and male infertility, but the virus itself could carry long-lasting consequences.

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The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but when they are grouped into a sequence, mice can't recognize that without guidance from the hippocampus, according to a new study.

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Improving air quality may improve cognitive function and reduce dementia risk, according to several recent studies.

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Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent research.

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In an analysis of almost 3 million patients taking a single high blood pressure medication for the first time, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) were as good as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors at preventing cardiovascular events linked to hypertension, including heart attack, stroke and heart failure. 51 possible side effects and safety concerns were examined: The patients taking ARBs were found to be significantly less likely to develop tissue swelling, cough, pancreas inflammation and bleeding in the digestive tract.

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