Anuradha Varanasi, Contributor

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Sleep Deprivation Might Play In Role In Reducing Vaccine Effectiveness

Your body’s antibody response depends on how much sleep you get every night.

In Developing Countries, Married Women Are Most Likely To Opt For Abortions

Access to safe abortions in low-income and middle-income countries is still a major struggle — thanks to socioeconomic factors, lack of skilled healthcare workers, and patriarchal norms that restrict women’s bodily autonomy, among other barriers.

Sticking To Healthy Lifestyle Prior To Covid-19 Infection Might Lower Long Covid Risk

In a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, a group of researchers found that women who had a healthy lifestyle before a Covid-19 infection had a substantially lower risk of long Covid.

Can Money Buy Happiness? Study Finds Poor People At Increased Risk Of Having Mental Disorders

In a recent study, researchers found that the amount of disposable income individuals have by the time they are 30 years old could be linked to an increased risk of being diagnosed with a mental disorder later in life or around 22 years later.

Clean Air Can Boost Children’s Lung Capacity

In a recent study, a group of Sweden-based researchers found that in Stockholm, as air pollution levels started declining since the early 2000s, children and adolescents had improved lung capacity.

Air Pollution Might Make People 16% More Likely To Die From Heart Disease

Living in a neighborhood with high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the air could be wreaking havoc in people’s cardiovascular systems, particularly for those who are a part of low-income communities.

Improving Survival Of Babies After Birth Will Decrease Population Growth

On November 15, 2022, the United Nations reported that the world population has reached 8 billionBy 2030, The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 3 aims to reduce global infant and child mortality (under the age of 5) to less than 25 per 1000…

Irregular Sleep Patterns Might Increase The Risk Of Clogged Arteries

A recent study that analyzed sleep data of 2000 adults over the age of 45 warns that frequent irregularities in your sleep duration might increase the risk of developing clogged arteries or a condition called atherosclerosis that is characterized by pl…

More Than Half Of Long Covid Patients Suffer From Organ Damage Up To One Year After Covid Infection

A recent study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, researchers analyzed MRI data of long Covid patients and found that mild organ damage continued to take place in 59% of the patients even up to one year after they got infected w…

People With Long Covid Are More Likely To Be Unemployed

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA that included 15,308 individuals who had Covid-19 in the past, researchers found that those who are living with post-Covid-19 condition or long Covid are less likely to be working full time than those who…