Plant-based medicines have played an integral part in society’s healthcare and wellness for thousands of years. Estimates from the World Health Organization indicate that approximately 80% of the world’s population still relies on traditional plant-based medicinal care. Cannabis has been used in traditional medicinal and cultural rituals for millennia.However, cannabis still remains illegal in many...
Most people think heart attacks happen only because of blocked arteries or bad habits. But sometimes, the body reacts to things we don’t expect at all. These unexpected heart attack triggers can sneak up during normal daily life, like waking up too fast, skipping sleep, or getting too emotional. They may sound small, but together...
On October 28, Kim Kardashian appeared on Good Morning America to promote her new show All’s Fair. Robin Roberts asked about the brain aneurysm Kim had disclosed on The Kardashians. Kim confirmed getting a Prenuvo scan followed by extensive brain scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She told viewers to tune in to the next episode...
Pancreatic cancer is often referred to as a silent disease because early signs are typically quite subtle. People may first notice vague tummy pains, backache, or even unexpected weight loss. Others only realize something is wrong when jaundice suddenly appears. However, newer patient reports and guidance highlight another early clue in some people. The first...
Illness and disease don’t exist in silos: often, one can trigger or exacerbate another. Emerging evidence is painting a clearer, more urgent picture: the global epidemic of diabetes may be one of the strongest, yet most controllable risk factors for developing dementia. Far from being two separate conditions, researchers are increasingly recognizing them as a...
The highway stretches dark ahead, and your headlights carve a tunnel through the night. A car pulls up behind with LED beams so bright they flood your rearview mirror with white light. The glare burns into your peripheral vision and makes the road ahead harder to see. Most drivers don’t know their rearview mirror has...
Reaching the age of 100 used to be quite a rare achievement. Yet, nowadays, it seems to be a rather commonplace occurrence. Well, believe it or not, centenarians are not the fastest-growing demographic age group worldwide. Researchers in Sweden followed tens of thousands of people and analyzed routine blood tests taken years earlier. They then...
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF, is now the most common form of heart failure. Many people who develop it also live with obesity and type 2 diabetes. GLP-1 medications began as diabetes treatments, yet their role has broadened recently. Many patients use them to improve glucose control and reduce weight. Over the...
What are the junk foods that harm the brain the most? New studies revealed the most harmful foods for brain health, and we are here to share their findings. So, what is the connection between brain health and diet? Well, in the newest analysis published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers asked a...
NASA’s astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon’ orbiting within Earth’s orbital neighbourhood. This quasi-moon spotted in 2025 is an asteroid and not the first celestial object to be bestowed this title. The name ‘quasi-moon’ is given to these celestial objects due to their behavioral characteristics, mimicking our actual moon. This quasi-moon does not orbit Earth...
In 1951, a young Black woman named Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital with a pain that changed the world. She had no clue that her own body carried the secret to one of science’s biggest discoveries. Her cells, taken without permission, became the first immortal human cell line known as HeLa cells. Her...
Most people grow up thinking of death as the absolute end. The body stops working, the brain shuts down, and consciousness disappears forever. To us, it feels like a full stop, the closing of a book we cannot reopen. But not all scientists and philosophers see it this way. Some argue that death may not...
