Author Archives: Health

2 week fab diet

Back to Healthy weight. The stock library no longer exists. Image was incorporated into the webpage during the subscription term and can be used indefinitely in the same page – subject to thinkstock subscription rules. The diet is based on a principle known as intermittent fasting IF, where you eat normally for 5 days a… Read More »

Mistakes laid bare in Ruby Princess report

When COVID-infected passengers were allowed to disembark the now-infamous Ruby Princess cruise ship in Sydney the errors were inexcusable and inexplicable and the results deadly. A special commission of inquiry into the ship’s arrival in Sydney on March 19 has determined authorities made a litany of mistakes when contagious travellers alighted at Circular Quay, spreading… Read More »

Busting Up the Infection Cycle of Hepatitis B

Researchers at the University of Delaware, using supercomputing resources and collaborating with scientists at Indiana University, have gained new understanding of the virus that causes hepatitis B and the “spiky ball” that encloses the virus’s genetic blueprint. The research, which has been published online, ahead of print, by the American Chemical Association journal ACS Chemical… Read More »