Tag: Medicine
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Roman Medicine: 6 Ways People Stayed Healthy In Ancient Rome
“Baths, wine and sex corrupt our bodies, but baths, wine and sex make life worth living”. This inscription – from the tomb of a Roman merchant of Ephesus, Tiberius Claudius Secundus – indicates that, like us, the Romans sought a sensible balance between an enjoyable existence and a healthy one. Dr Nick Summerton shares six…
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High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer. Now There’s a Plan to Tackle It
Lucas Ninno/Getty Images Once considered a disease of the affluent, hypertension now affects a third of all adults. The WHO wants nations to get organized to combat it. The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every three…
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Why You Shrink As You Get Older
HuffPost It seems that everything shifts as you age. You may notice you get wrinkles, your hair turns gray and even your height changes — in other words, you shrink. “Aging is not a random thing that happens, it’s very predictable, it happens to us all. And rather than just luck and some bad things that might happen…
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The Spinal Cord Could Provide a Radical New Way To Treat Depression
(magicmine/Getty Images) With depression affecting around 1 in 10 of us at some point during our lives, the need for new and improved treatments is a top priority for researchers – and it appears that spinal cord stimulation could be one route for experts to investigate. A team led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine…
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