Are you healthy? – why not take the NHS quiz Health is a hard concept to define. MyHSN likes the World Health Organization’s definition. According to the WHO, Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” To assess your health, why not take […]
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Selena Marie Gomez is an American singer, actress, producer, and businesswoman. She first revealed her Lupus diagnosis in an interview with Billboard in 2015 while explaining why she took an extended break from Hollywood, I was diagnosed with lupus, and I’ve been through chemotherapy. That’s what my break was really about. I could’ve had a […]
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Does cracking knuckles cause arthritis? Lets go through the truth – and the myth – behind the cracking knuckles debate. Cracking your knuckles may aggravate the people around you, but it probably will not raise your risk for arthritis. That’s the conclusion of several studies that compared rates of hand arthritis among habitual knuckle-crackers and […]
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First cases of drug-resistant ringworm (tinea) found in the U.S.A. The two recent New York City infections stemmed from a species of fungus named Trichophyton indotineae. Though infections caused by T. indotineae have been on the rise in South Asia during the last ten years – likely due to the overprescription and misuse of […]
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What is the date today? Don’t know, like many of us? Need to look at your phone? Ok, so let us analyse why don’t you know? Because you don’t need to. But if you do not know the date, what do you know? The day? Who you are, what motivates you? You or the phone? […]
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Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from Monday 15 – Sunday 21 May 2023. The official theme for this year, as set by the Mental Health Foundation, is ‘anxiety’. What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a common emotion that we have all experienced at some point in our lives. It is defined as unreasonable fear. People […]
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Ronald Reagan, his eyesight and contact lenses Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was so nearsighted that – as a college football player, his vision was limited to the square yard of turf occupied by the opposing […]
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Donald Trump – 45th president of the United States (2017 -2021) – has rosacea, a reddening skin condition that he takes antibiotics to combat. Makeup artists have also speculated that Trump’s facial colouring suggests he uses self-tanner or a tanning bed – partly to make him look younger and partly to cover up the […]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, later the 32nd president of the United States (1933 -1945), began experiencing symptoms of a paralytic illness in 1921 when he was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fever; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperaesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery. Rare photograph of […]
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A food allergy is a result of your immune system getting confused by the structural similarity between proteins found in pollen or the harmless proteins found in certain foods. Perceiving the latter as a threat, it releases immunoglobulin E (IgE), which activates an allergic reaction. This involves the release of chemicals such as histamine, […]
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