Health

Research of the Week National handgrip score predicts Olympic medal tally. Got super high cholesterol? Might be the carbs. An EVOO-based high-fat diet causes a good kind of gut dysbiosis that lowers the risk of colon cancer. How time has passed for people during the pandemic: for half it sped …

At the end of April, Denise J. Jamieson, M.D., a member of the Covid-19 task force at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and chairwoman of gynecology and obstetrics at the Emory University School of Medicine, noted in an email that it was “remarkable” how much we still do …

Let me guess. You’ve been on keto for 5-6 months and enthusiastically thinking this is how you’ll finally wrangle your sugar cravings into submission! You’re loading up on healthy fats, avoiding grains, and ditching highly processed, high-carb foods. Yet there’s that incessant nagging. You know, the one that tells you …

Here’s what you need to know: The surge in the United States is being driven largely by states that moved to reopen early. Florida sets a new record for most deaths it has reported in a single day. Under pressure from scientists globally, the W.H.O. acknowledges that the virus can …

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device:Via Apple Podcasts | Via Spotify | Via Stitcher At the end of January, long before the world understood that seemingly healthy people could spread the coronavirus, a doctor in Germany tried to sound the alarm. Today, we look at why …

Last month, surveyors with the Pew Research Center set out to answer a timely question: Who is moving because of the pandemic, and why? They found that about 3 percent of more than 9,600 respondents in the United States said that they had changed their residence because of the coronavirus, …

Across much of the world, movement restrictions are lifting, businesses are reopening, and gyms are coming back. While the next few weeks may paint a different picture, and cases are going up in many areas, many places now are seeing better overall trajectories. Deaths are down, which could be a …

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization, a move that would cut off one of the largest sources of funding from the premier global health organization in the middle of a pandemic. “The United States’ …

An agreement to pay more than $ 10 billion to settle thousands of claims that the popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer is at risk of unraveling. Although the bulk of the complex deal between Roundup’s manufacturer, the German conglomerate Bayer, and a raft of plaintiff lawyers does not require court …