Living with multiple chronic conditions cuts lives short – but Africans are overlooked in research: When a person suffers from two or more long-term health conditions at the same time this is known as multimorbidity. The World Health Organization says multimorbidity puts patients at greater risk and complicates primary care. It also drives up healthcare …
Chronic pelvic pain affects up to 26% of women – our latest research brings us closer to better treating it: A lack of understanding about chronic pelvic pain has left women with limited treatment options. Studio Romantic/ Shutterstock Chronic pelvic pain affects between 5% and 26% of women worldwide. It can be associated with conditions …
New COVID variants could emerge from animals or from people with chronic infections – but it’s not cause for panic: peterschreiber.media/Shutterstock As the COVID pandemic rolls on, we’re becoming all too familiar with the continued emergence of new variants. Some can thwart immunity from vaccines and prior infections, increasing their capacity to disrupt our everyday …
South Africa faces a slowly worsening chronic fiscal crisis: South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa: His party's 2022 elective conference and the country's 2024 national elections will define political choices Getty Images South Africa’s National Treasury has done an excellent job in the 2021 medium term budget policy statement of balancing the fiscal and political pressures …
Ebola might be a chronic infection – but here’s why we shouldn’t panic: Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but it has not come back the way we expected it to. Eighteen people are reported to have been infected, of which nine …
Kenyans with chronic kidney disease know diet is important. But many don’t follow the guidelines: Patients on dialysis struggle to follow strict diets. GettyImages Chronic kidney disease is a condition that occurs when a person’s kidneys are damaged and can’t remove harmful waste from the blood. This can lead to high blood pressure and severe …
Chronic fatigue syndrome: new evidence of biological causes: Flea, the bass player with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. Christian Bertrand/Shutterstock Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) affects up to 24m people, globally, but little is known about its causes. Our latest study unravels some of this mystery. The results suggest that an …
Nationalising Britain’s railways is the only way to fix chronic problems – here’s why: Photo by Michal Parzuchowski on Unsplash Just who exactly supports the UK’s privatised railway industry? It’s certainly not passengers, taxpayers, railway employees or increasingly many politicians. The state-owned British Rail was privatised over several years starting in 1995. Prime Minister Margaret …
The Moringa tree enters the arsenal of treatments against chronic diseases: Moringa leaves are about 30% protein and have abundant levels of vitamins and minerals. Flickr/Books for Life If plants could be superheroes, the Moringa (Moringa oleifera) tree would be one of them. Although native to the foothills of the Himalayas in India, moringa can …
Chronic stress could be making you fat: Lisa S/Shutterstock.com The world is getting fatter and it’s making us sicker. But could rising stress levels be playing an important role in our growing waistlines? Obesity is now one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is associated with increased risk of developing a host of …
Tribunal was right to order release of chronic fatigue trial data: Piotr Adamowicz/Shutterstock.com After nearly four months deliberation a tribunal has dismissed an appeal.PDF) made by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) against a requirement to release data from the PACE trial – a trial that investigated treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome. This is an …