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With a few weeks until New Year’s Day, it’s still prime indulging season, the time of year when you may feel tempted to give into lots of treats, and worry about the consequences in January. But are some of the things you believe about holiday weight gain actually old wives tales? Here are five falsehoods

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have now found a cause for the frequent catastrophic events in the genetic material of cancer cells that have only been known for a few years: If an important DNA repair system of the cells has failed, this promotes fragmentation and defective assembly of the

Dubai in June is so hot that the ocean water is a constant, low-broiling Jacuzzi temperature. It is so hot that you can see the humidity rising from the pavement, making you feel like you’re underwater, the scenery jiggling with stress. It is so hot that I am sweating all the time, even when I

An unexpected finding that links a structural heart protein to gene regulation following heart stress suggests potential new avenues for developing heart failure therapies. The work led by University of Iowa heart researcher Long-Sheng Song, MD, focuses on a protein called junctophilin-2 (JP2). Previous work from Song’s lab has shown that JP2 is a structural

Obesity puts you more at risk of cancer ‘because fat clogs up and slows down the cells that fight off the disease’ Lead ‘Natural Killer’ cells stutter and fail when excess fat blocks their pathways  New research shows the damage can be reversed to kick the cells into action Obesity is the second leading preventable

CHICAGO — After a decade, Americans have new physical activity guidelines to aim for — and officials hope the changes will get more people encouraged to get moving. That's because the new guidelines, released today (Nov. 12) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), say that any exercise is better than none.

When a cell divides — a process known as mitosis — its chromosomes need to be separated and evenly distributed into the newly created daughter cells. Although this is known to be extremely complicated and to feature a range of cellular components, many of its details remain unclear, which has hampered efforts to develop treatments

Look past the gingerbread loaves and eggnog lattes, and you’ll actually find tons of Starbucks foods packed with a hell of a lot of protein this time of year. TG, right? A peppermint mocha is delish, but you know you’ll still be starving in 30 minutes. “Unlike simple carbs—protein plays a big role in satiety,”

Diabetic foot ulcers can take up to 150 days to heal. A biomedical engineering team wants to reduce it to 21 days. They’re planning to drop the healing time by amplifying what the body already does naturally: build layers of new tissue pumped up by nitric oxide. In patients with diabetes, impaired nitric oxide production

A recent study from North Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina finds that young people with good family relationships are more likely to intervene when they witness bullying or other aggressive behavior at school – and to step in if they see victims planning to retaliate. The study found that kids who

Finding the perfect gift for a mom who’s expecting her second (or third or fourth or — *gulp* — fifth or more) child can be tough. She probably already has all the newborn necessities, like a crib and a high chair and whatnot, plus a million other things she never really needed in the first

A new report says more women in the poorest countries are using modern contraception, signifying progress in efforts to involve women in family planning. But the report, launched Monday by the U.N.-backed advocacy group FP2020, says many others who want to delay or prevent pregnancy are unable to access contraception, often due to lack of

Sure, Jenna Jameson has been killing it on the keto diet for months (she’s lost 80 pounds on it, btw), but even the keto queen herself was a beginner at one point—and now she’s sharing the tips that helped her when she was just starting to get into the keto groove. On Sunday, Jenna took

Lawyer, 34, was given just ONE WEEK to live after her doctor misdiagnosed her leukaemia as a GUM INFECTION Jenna Ostrowski, 34, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia last year Her doctor missed the signs but, luckily, she went private for tests the next day Medics said she could have been dead a week later

The debate about the volume of homework that children are being given has been bouncing around the opinion pages of broadsheets and red tops in recent weeks after Gary Lineker tweeted that it was “a waste of time”. As names are called and sides are taken in the debate there are much bigger issues at

Toddler battling a rare brain condition is left with ‘devil horns’ after an operation to drain fluid from his head caused his skull to CAVE IN Clyne Solano, 22 months old, was born with the rare condition hydranencephaly It means his brain is underdeveloped and his enlarged skull is filled with fluid Surgeons operated to

More personalized risk assessments and new cholesterol-lowering drug options for people at the highest risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) are among the key recommendations in the 2018 cholesterol guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The guidelines were presented today at the Association’s 2018 Scientific Sessions conference in

Repetition is the best method for memorization, for neurons themselves. This is the principle behind what neurobiologists call sequence reactivations: during sleep, neurons in the hippocampus related to a task activate very quickly in turn in a precise order, which consolidates the memory of this task. Sequence reactivations are fundamental for long-term memorization and for

Many people take nutritional supplements such as fish oil and Vitamin D to prevent deadly diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Findings of a government-funded study, however, have provided evidence that these supplements may not actually help in staving off these diseases. The new study, which was presented at the American Heart Association Scientific

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have found a potential new pathway to regulate immune response and potentially control inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system such as meningitis and sepsis. “We need to know what turns on inflammatory response to bacterial infection to be able to modulate the process,” said Subhrangsu Mandal,