They are “rare” in the most strict sense of the word, but the number of people suffering from rare diseases is still considerably high. In Turkey, more than five million people live with rare diseases and 70% of them are children. Most of those diseases had their origins in the genetic structure of patients and their families.

Brown fat is that magical tissue that you would want more of. Unlike white fat, which stores calories, brown fat burns energy and scientists hope it may hold the key to new obesity treatments. But it has long been unclear whether people with ample brown fat truly enjoy better health. For one thing, it has been hard to even identify such individuals since brown fat is hidden deep inside the body.

Researchers recently have observed that sleep disturbances are associated with faster chronic disease accumulation which points towards the importance of early detection and treatment of sleep disturbances as a possible strategy to reduce chronic multimorbidity among older adults.

By Satata Karmakar*

In recent years, the number of high-risk groups for ischemic diseases such as critical limb ischemia where tissues of toe may decay is increasing due to increase in the number of people with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension which are triggered by changes in dietary habits, and consumption of smoking.

African women who live in cities are seven percent more likely to have chronic diseases than rural dwellers.

As the world’s climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases, warns a study published in the journal Science.

New research published in the Journal of Physiology shows that 12 weeks of easy-to-administer passive stretching helps improve blood flow by making it easier for your arteries to dilate and decreasing their stiffness.

According to a new study by the University of Canterbury (UC), measuring white blood cell generated antioxidant chemicals is essential to monitor inflammation and free radical damage during diseases such as heart disease or SARS.

A recently developed system for switching on the activity of genes could improve treatments for a broad range of neurological diseases.

“People over 70 and fragile people” must be protected as a priority, said Emmanuel Macron during his first big speech on the coronavirus pandemic on March 12.

As the world grinds to a halt, it's clear that the coronavirus pandemic is having a major impact on the environment. What's not so clear is if climate change had an impact on the origin of the virus.

By Matthew R. Francis*

Several daily servings of fruit provide vitamins and minerals that help the body ward off illnesses and diseases.

The trend of health problems faced by the population in 2019 hinted that the country continued to face extraordinary burden of both the communicable and non-communicable diseases in 2019 and the concerned government authorities come up with almost little success in devising a strategy to safeguard population from the infectious diseases and their epidemics.