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PARIS, France (AFP) — The cost of lighting up at a French sidewalk cafe may finally dissuade even the most ardent smoker, if Prime Minister Edouard Phillippe gets his way. With 80,000 tobacco-related deaths in France each year, “doing nothing is not an option,” Philippe said Tuesday, announcing a plan to raise the price of a packet of cigarettes to 10 euros ($11.3) from the current seven euros. Tobacco “is the leading cause of preventable […]
Burnout Feeling physically and emotionally exhausted? Feel like work is invading all aspects of your life? Like a growing number of professionals, you could be in the brink of a burnout. (AFP videographics) https://youtu.be/VtBo0od5B4k
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China is facing the largest diabetes epidemic in the world with around 11 percent of its population suffering from the metabolic illness, while nearly 36 percent are prediabetic, according to a United States study published Tuesday. The survey, which included 170,287 participants and was conducted in 2013, was analyzed with the assistance of Linhong Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and was published in the Journal […]
Vaccines work by exploiting the immune system’s memory. Vaccination simulates an infection, training the immune system and enabling it to develop weapons to fight back. See the videographic explaining how the body fights infection and how vaccination works. (AFP)
Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980. More than 2 billion people are overweight. Of these, more than 700 million are obese. (AFP)
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An anti-diabetic drug that lowers blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers also significantly cuts the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease, according to a study published Monday. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, came in a clinical trial of more than 10,000 patients in 30 countries, using canagliflozin. It found the drug reduced the overall risk of cardiovascular disease by 14 percent and reduced […]
WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) — The Musicon’s inventor says its rotating drum resembles a giant music box and can be programmed by children to play any melody, while at the same time inspiring them to develop a number of skills other than their musical sense. “Children seek to compose their melody and are not aware that they are learning mathematics, counting, that they have to cooperate with the partner they are playing with,” said its inventor […]
Nagsagawa ng physical fitness activity ang mga kawani ng DZEC Radyo Agila sa pagsapit ng ika-49 na taong pagkakatatag nito. Ang aktibidad na tinawag na may temang ”Stay Fit, Iwas Sakit” ay dinaluhan ng mga residente ng Barangay Culiat, Quezon City. Dumalo rin dito ang iba pang mga kawani ng Eagle Broadcasting Corporation. Ang aktibidad ay kinapalooban ng dalawang bahagi—ang una ay ehersisyo sa pamamagitan ng zumba at ang ikalawa ay ang health forum. Bago simulan ang nasabing aktibidad ay nagsagawa muna […]
by Natsuko FUKUE Agence France Presse KAWASAKI, Japan (AFP) — Kanemasa Ito compares caring for his wife Kimiko to waging a daily war with the devil. The woman he loved has all but disappeared — lost to dementia, she can no longer eat, bathe, or go to the toilet alone. “There is a demon inside her head,” Ito told AFP, articulating the dramatic change in the person he’d built a life with, while she babbles […]
by Nina Larson Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, as it warned of the dire environmental impact of tobacco production, distribution and waste. The United Nations agency said tougher measures were needed to rein in tobacco use, urging countries to ban smoking in the workplace and indoor public spaces, outlaw marketing of tobacco products […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — British researchers say their newly revealed method of predicting people’s ‘brain age’ could act as a wake-up call to those deemed at increased risk of poor health and early death. Dr James Cole, research associate at Imperial College London’s Department of Medicine, led the study which combined the publicly available data sets of at least 2,000 magnetic resonance imaging scans with machine learning algorithms. The technique helped Cole’s team provide […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A study of women in India who learned to read in their 30s shows the human brain’s incredible capacity to reorganize and transform itself, researchers said Wednesday. Researchers recruited women in India, a country with an illiteracy rate of around 39 percent, to see what they could learn about the areas of the brain devoted to reading. At the start of the study, most of the women could not read […]
