Human physiological uniqueness made possible our colonisation of the world. Since our ancestors emerged from the African savanna tens of thousands of years ago, we’ve migrated...
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Obesity and overweight are alarmingly on the rise in Bangladesh, particularly among children and adolescents, owing to the rapid spread of fast-food culture and...
Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either...
As a psychiatrist, I’ve never talked so much about politics with my patients as I have in the past two years. It was surprising, though, when...
In December 2021, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines for how long people should isolate following a COVID-19 infection. The agency...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new COVID-19 guidelines on Feb. 25, 2022, to help inform people’s individual decisions about wearing masks. The new...
GENEVA – The global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 percent in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with young people the...
GENEVA – The global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 percent in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with young people the...
As we move into the third year of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, it’s important to ask what we have learned and what we have...
More than one-quarter of infections in Canada fail to clear up when people are treated with standard antibiotics. This failure occurs because of a phenomenon called...