Health

The body positivity movement — while rooted in good intentions — has spiraled out of control and promotes lifestyles that are not physically or mentally healthy, a man in the middle of a weight-loss journey said.  “I can say that when I was about 400 pounds, that wasn’t a positive …

The European Union on Monday launched a project to collect and aggregate cancer imaging data in an effort to speed up innovation and early cancer diagnosis using artificial intelligence. The new European Cancer Imaging Initiative will give clinicians, researchers and innovators “easy access to large amounts of cancer imaging data”, …

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed approaching COVID-19 vaccines like the annual flu shot many Americans receive in order to protect against mutations of the virus.  The proposal aims to simplify future vaccination efforts.  Under this strategy, most adults and children would get a once-a-year shot to protect …

Damian Duda, a Polish academic and media worker, was only 25 when he first went to Ukraine as a volunteer combat paramedic in 2014, work he describes as his “private crusade”. Almost 10 years on, when Russian bombs started falling over Ukrainian cities at the start of its invasion, he …

Tokyo — Celebrations are underway all over the world this week as Asians mark the Lunar New Year. It’s always the most festive time of the year in China, but that’s especially true this year. After Beijing suddenly dropped virtually all of its draconian COVID-19 restrictions for the first time since …

BATON ROUGE, LA – The nation rallied around Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin nearly three weeks ago when his heart stopped after a tackle during a game and he collapsed on the field.  Hamlin is now recovering at home and still faces a lengthy rehabilitation. Yet if there is …

Researchers have developed a new machine-learning model to detect cancers that are in their early stages of disease by examining DNA fragments from cancer cells in the blood. A University of Wisconsin­–Madison research team was able to detect cancer in the bloodstream in most of the samples tested, it said.  Muhammed …

Hong Kong said it will no longer require people infected with COVID-19 to quarantine from Jan. 30, removing one of the last major coronavirus restrictions in place in the Asian financial hub. The scrapping of the isolation requirements is part of a decision to downgrade COVID-19’s status to an endemic …

The European Union’s drug regulator has not identified any safety signals in the region related to U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 shot, the agency said on Wednesday. On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said that …

For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives. As a transgender woman, Rainey needs the hormone estrogen, which allows her to physically transition by developing more feminine features. But when she asked …