Be Well: How Blood Tests Can Determine Your Body's Biological Age
What is age? Technically speaking, age determines how long a person or thing has existed but there a blood test that could prove your birthdate to be just that -- a date. Dr. Jeremy Walker, Opt health physician, joined Cheddar News to talk about how blood tests can determine someone's biological age. In some cases, the biological age can be older or younger based on how the organ systems are aging.
Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that's losing its natural areas, but for the well-being of people living on it, according to a new study.
You've probably heard about respiratory viruses like RSV and the flu, but now doctors are saying a new virus is on the rise. Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, spiked this spring, according to the CDC. The virus causes many of the same symptoms as the flu , including coughing, runny nose, sore throat, and fever.
There's new information about the world's oldest flying reptile, which was discovered in Australia. The giant creature is known as a pterosaur and lived about 107 million years ago.
Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday.
