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Over the years, AHA, alpha hydroxy acid, and BHA, beta hydroxy acid, facial skin care products have become increasingly popular and now brands are taking those ingredients into body care.  New York-based dermatologist Dr. Dendy Engelman noted she has seen an uptick in patients looking for AHA and BHA-based body products. According to Spate, AHA-based

TikTok is everything for most teens (and many adults) at the moment. The video-sharing social media platform became super popular at the start of the pandemic in 2020, and in the time since we’ve been treated to 15-second to 3-minute clips of dance routines, cooking, fashion and beauty must-haves, and more. Another popular TikTok trend

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with an engineered oncolytic adenovirus delivered by neural stem cells appears feasible and safe in patients with malignant gliomas, according to new research. The small, first-in-human trial also found signs of anti-tumor activity with the therapy, known as NSC-CRAd-S-pk7, especially in patients with gliomas with unmethylated MGMT promoters, Dr.

While efforts to develop Alzheimer’s medications have so far borne little fruit, new research highlights the therapeutic promise of two non-drug tools: light and sound. According to a pair of small new studies, exposing Alzheimer’s patients to an hour a day of carefully modulated light and/or sound appears, over time, to slow down the telltale

Bonding with the Barkers! Kourtney Kardashian has reached the next level of her relationship with boyfriend Travis Barker’s kids. Celebrity Stepparents: Jada Pinkett Smith, LeAnn Rimes and More In a July 17 Instagram Live video, the Blink-182 drummer’s 15-year-old daughter, Alabama, played “Never Have I Ever.” When asked about meeting any Keeping Up With the

Portugal has asked other European countries for supplies of coronavirus vaccines to help accelerate its inoculation campaign, Health Minister Marta Temido said on Tuesday. Lisbon “has made a huge effort” to “receive more vaccines”, the minister said at the end of a meeting of experts to review the health situation. Around 45 percent of the

Long-term outcomes for a significant proportion of patients with severe brain injury are better than expected, in new findings that caution against making early, definitive prognoses of poor outcomes and decisions to withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Investigators found patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) frequently demonstrated major functional gains, including recovery of independence

The collaborative research team formed by the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and Department of Microbiology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has developed an inhalable dry powder formulation of tamibarotene, a repurposed drug that exhibits broad-spectrum antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV and influenza A H1N1 virus following pulmonary delivery. The

A new study finds that the disconnect between how old we feel and how old we want to be can offer insights into the relationship between our views on aging and our health. Subjective age discordance (SAD) – the difference between how old you feel and how old you would like to be—is a fairly

Results of a compassionate-use study released in Stem Cells Translational Medicine show promising results for treating muscular dystrophies with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from Wharton’s jelly (WJ), a substance found in the umbilical cord. Led by doctors at Klara Medical Center (KMC), Czestochowa, Poland, these WJ-MSC treatments resulted in significant improvement in several body

Across the U.S., COVID-19 cases are rising again, primarily in unvaccinated populations. Most of these cases are due to the highly infectious delta variant of SARS-Cov-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Many children are among those who aren’t vaccinated, simply because no vaccines have been authorized for children under 12. About a quarter of children

Usually, influencer and bodybuilder MattDoesFitness creates videos where he takes on intensive physical challenges or experiments with different diets. In his latest video, however, he keeps things simpler, and breaks down what he tends to eat on an average day in order to help maintain his 207-pound weight and lean, ripped physique. While he isn’t

The Kingdom of Bahrain is set to launch a national digital platform aimed at serving health facilities, it has emerged. The yet-to-be-named online hub – which will reportedly be accessible via nhra.bh.munshaat – will fall under the Gulf country’s National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA), and is due to launch later on this year. “This system

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, again this year ranked as the top hospital for gynecology, according to US News and World Report, which released its annual rankings today. The top five hospitals for gynecology were the same this year and were in the same order. In second place again this year was Memorial Sloan

Until now, we’ve not known much about Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan‘s private life at home in Los Angeles with their sweet son Archie Harrison and daughter Lilibet. The royals are notoriously private about their life away from the spotlight. However, father Harry gave a surprise interview to our very own James Corden on his Late

When cancer patients stop smoking, they heal faster, experience fewer side effects from treatment and lower their chances of tumors returning. Now, top cancer hospitals are helping patients quit as evidence mounts that it’s never too late. The newest research, reported Monday, shows lung cancer patients who stopped smoking gained nearly two years of life

The ‘healthy’ energy drinks that really give your body and brain a boost: Expert assesses selection of sugar-free beverages and gives each one a wellness rating Designed to help us focus and concentrate better, to exercise harder for longer — or simply power through a busy day, energy drinks have become a popular choice: in

New Hampshire residents cannot be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine in order to “access any public facility, any public benefit, or any public service” according to a new bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. The so-called “medical freedom” bill does not override state vaccine law, which “requires that all children enrolled

CHICAGO (AP) — Most mornings, 62-year-old Maria Elena Estamilla wakes up with pelvic pain and dread that she faces the same fate as her mother and grandmother: fatal cervical cancer. The Chicago woman’s last full medical exam was in 2015 and she sees no options for care as a Mexican immigrant without permission to live

Researchers have identified a rare class of genetic differences transmitted from parents without autism to their affected children with autism and determined that they are most prominent in "multiplex" families with more than one family member on the spectrum. These findings are reported in Recent ultra-rare inherited variants implicate new autism candidate risk genes, a