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Feathers, fins or fur, all pets can make us feel happier. Now, new research from the University of South Australia shows that pet ownership and pet care can also support communication and well-being, especially for people with acquired language difficulties such as aphasia.

As people age, they often worry about declining memory and other cognitive abilities. Many of them will see a doctor, who may do some tests to find out that they are functioning normally. This is generally referred to as subjective cognitive complaints (SCC). Previous research has shown that some of these individuals indeed progress to mild cognitive impairment and dementia when followed up over several years; however, the majority do not.

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have designed a new 3D printed bandage, known as a scaffold, which presents an innovative method of treatment to heal diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs).

Losing weight is challenging. But as anyone who has ever successfully lost weight knows, it’s avoiding weight re-gain that’s the real challenge.

IT is unfortunate that a project that is meant to improve the country’s economy as well as the local community has had to be suspended due to vandalism.

A Monash University-led study has found that the risk of brain bleeding outweighs any potential benefit of reducing the risk of strokes in healthy older adults who take daily low dose aspirin.

Medicaid, which provides low-income Americans with health insurance coverage, currently excludes large numbers of adults over 65 with social, health and financial profiles similar to those of people the program does cover. Based on a study we conducted, we determined that if strict eligibility rules for Medicaid were changed to help cover such people, from 700,000 to 11.5 million people over 65 would be newly eligible for the program.

A large team of inflammation and arthritic specialists, immunologists and other medical researchers affiliated with a number of institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has found a connection between the human gut microbiome and inflammatory types of arthritis. In their study, reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group compared the gut biomes of healthy people with those who have different types of inflammatory arthritis.

Researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia, have conducted a metadata analysis on vegetarian diets’ effect on people at high risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). They found that the vegetarian diet was associated with significantly improved LDL-cholesterol, HbA1c (glucose level) and body weight.

By MICHAEL MIYOBA
NATIONAL Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) president Alfred Foloko has reminded athletes to go the extra mile and push themselves harder to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.