Once upon a time, if you had a sore stomach, you’d go see your doctor. If you fancied the latest lip gloss, you’d hit up the beauty counter. But now, more and more customers – particularly women – are visiting their local rouge retailer, seeking everything from fertility advice to products that “balance brain chemistry”
Not everyone would refer to a chronic inflammatory bowel disease with no cure as a blessing, but not everyone is a warrior like Natalie Hayden. A former TV news anchor, Hayden first noticed symptoms in 2005. As a then-college senior, she chalked up abdominal pain to too many late-night tacos. But her pain, weight loss,
BREAKING NEWS: FDA orders Johnson & Johnson to throw out 60 MILLION Covid vaccine doses made at Baltimore plant that had several violations The FDA has ordered 60 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine to be discarded on Friday The shots were made at a Baltimore plant run by Emergent Solutions, which has
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the nation last spring, millions of children across the country were forced to leave their classrooms and turn to remote learning. However, the shift resulted in the “disappearance” of thousands of students, who never logged on or re-appeared when classrooms reopened in the fall. In March, ABC News reported
Seattle has become the first U.S. city to fully vaccinate 70% of eligible residents. In May, President Joe Biden set a goal for 70% of U.S. adults to receive at lease one dose of the vaccine by July 4 in the sprint to end the coronavirus crisis. Mayor Jenny A. Durkan announced Wednesday that Seattle
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," as the old saying goes. But for organisms that can't leave the proverbial kitchen when things get too hot, there's another way: researchers from Japan have discovered that plants can gain heat tolerance to better adapt to future heat stress, thanks to a particular
CRISPR Researchers from Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen have developed a new method, which makes CRISPR gene editing more precise than conventional methods. The method selects the molecules best suited for helping the CRISPR-Cas9 protein with high-precision editing at the correct location in our DNA, the researchers explain. It eventually became a Nobel prize-winning
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As cases of dengue fever make their way into the southern United States, with sometimes-fatal results, a new study in Indonesia offers evidence of an effective way to block the spread of the mosquito-borne infection. The technique infects mosquitoes with a bacterium known as the wMel strain of Wolbachia pipientis.
Pairing sky-mapping algorithms with advanced immunofluorescence imaging of cancer biopsies, researchers at The Mark Foundation Center for Advanced Genomics and Imaging at Johns Hopkins University and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy developed a robust platform to guide immunotherapy by predicting which cancers will respond to specific therapies targeting the immune system. A new platform,
Fox News Flash top headlines for June 10 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. The first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a “very small” increased risk of bleeding and other rare blood disorders, researchers say. Findings published in Nature Medicine on Wednesday stemmed from a
Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among Canadian men and the third leading cause of cancer death. Abdominal obesity appears to be associated with a greater risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer. This link was demonstrated in a study led by Professor Marie-Élise Parent of Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Minors could make their own COVID vaccine decision in PA legislation push Rep. Torren Ecker, R-Penn., reacts to a Democratic colleague pushing to allow minors to decide on their own whether or not to get the COVID-19 vaccine Why do some people get side effects after COVID-19 vaccines? Temporary side effects including headache, fatigue and
Obesity increases one’s risk for many diseases and often prevents patients from receiving other necessary medical procedures. One of the most effective ways for patients with severe obesity to lose weight is through bariatric surgery, but it’s not clear how often this option is raised. In a new study published in Obesity, investigators from Brigham
Research posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server has shown that procaine and procaine-hydrochloride can reduce replication of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A viruses in infected cells and reduce the production of cytokines by the viruses, making them potentially useful for treating COVID-19. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mainly infects the bronchial and alveolar
Smokers needed their blocked arteries fixed nearly a decade earlier than non-smokers, and patients with obesity underwent these procedures four years earlier than non-obese patients, according to a new statewide study. The research included patients without a history of heart attack who were treated at hospitals across Michigan participating in BMC2, the Blue Cross Blue
(HealthDay)—Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion (FETO) offers significant benefit for singleton fetuses with severe, but not moderate, isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia on the left side, according to two studies published online June 8 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis 25th International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Denmark saw a drastic reduction in hospital admissions for diseases other than COVID-19 during the national lockdowns last year, and this decrease tended to be accompanied by increased death rates among those hospitalized, according to new findings. The reasons behind the higher mortality are complex, however, Dr. Jacob Bodilsen of
Chances are you’ve done a yoga class. But what kind did you do and for what reason? Yoga is an ancient practice thought to have originated in India. Sessions incorporate physical, mental and spiritual aspects to promote health, fitness and wellbeing, and since its inception thousands of years ago, it has evolved into a popular
During the pandemic, the free COVID Symptom Study app has helped researchers understand the complexity and spread of the corona virus better. “The study has exceeded our expectations since its launch in Sweden in April 2020. Participants from all over Sweden got involved and many of them have spent one minute every day answering questions
New research shows transmission of the virus behind COVID-19 varies seasonally, but warmer conditions are not enough to prevent transmission. The study, led by Imperial College London researchers and published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to incorporate environmental data into epidemiological models of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the
