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Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images It felt like there was a collective sigh of relief when a study, published this week, suggested 10,000 steps a day isn’t the health utopia we had all been led to believe. The news that we only had to reach 7,000 steps was enough to quite literally stop us in our fervent …

Nurse here. I work in a very rural hospital, and we have a patient population that seems to avoid the hospital at all costs. I have had so many, usually related to diabetics with foot sores- almost always resulting in amputation of a toe (or more). However, my favorite was an elderly farmer who came in with chest pain that, …

Almost 40% of women going through perimenopause experience moderate to severe hot flushes and night sweats but have no treatment options, new research has found. The study, published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, explored differences in symptom prevalence by menopausal stage among women aged 40-69 years. More than 8,000 participants who self-identified as a woman completed the Australian women’s …

There’s a lot of medical lingo that goes into talking about cholesterol and heart health, and, truth be told, it doesn’t have to be so confusing. As long as you make certain choices like adding the best foods for better cholesterol levels to your plate and following your doctor’s advice, you can make huge strides in keeping “bad” low-density lipoprotein …

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12-year-old boy who died from brain-eating amoeba identified  WSB-TV Death confirmed from rare and deadly ‘brain-eating amoeba’ in southern lake  Fox News Family identifies 12-year-old who died after contracting amoeba in SC  WIS News 10 Family identifies 12-year-old boy who died of a brain-eating amoeba in Lake Murray  WYFF Patient dies of brain-eating amoeba in South Carolina, hospital confirms  CBS News Source link

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As Danika Hilmer, then 32, was resting in bed after giving birth to her third son, Banks, in 2022, nurses noted that Hilmer was losing more blood than normal. After monitoring her for half an hour, a nurse gave her a shot to try to stop her hemorrhaging. It didn’t work. The doctor ordered some bloodwork and made a startling …

We’re constantly being reminded by news articles and social media posts that we should be getting more sleep. You probably don’t need to hear it again – not sleeping enough is bad for your brain, heart and overall health, not to mention your skin and sex drive. But what about sleeping “too much”? Recent reports that sleeping more than nine …