Teacher Caroline Preston has been left to raise her four-year-old sonas if a single parent. But, she says, although her best friend has been‘stripped away, piece by piece’ she knows he would be proud of her. Here, Caroline shares her story with Metro. I have a single copy of our wedding video from 2009 and sometimes I watch it to […]

A recent Scientific Reports study investigates environmental and occupational factors that affect semen quality. Study: Association of living environmental and occupational factors with semen quality in Chinese men: A cross-sectional study. Image Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.com Background A decrease in birth rates and an increase in infertility have been recorded globally. In China, for example, the infertility rate has been estimated to […]

Getting ALL your body clocks in sync could help you live longer… Believe it or not, you’ve got a whole host of them We MAY believe that the secret to retaining youthful healthiness lies in turning back time with ‘magical’ potions and regimens. But scientists now say that we can do something much more practical (and promising) by targeting our […]

Recent research demonstrates that protein phase separation (PPS) is widely present in cells and drives a variety of important biological functions. Protein phase separation at the wrong place or time could create clogs or aggregates of molecules linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and poorly formed cellular condensates could contribute to cancers and might help explain the aging […]

Patricia Tatum said she thinks about her son from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to sleep. She feels helpless. “There’s nothing I can do,” she said. “I have no information.” Her son, 47-year-old Derrick Williams, sits in the Clay County Detention Center in Missouri—hundreds of miles away from her home in Alabama. He’s been there […]

Reviewed Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. Diabetes mellitus (DM) arises from a cascade of factors, primarily stemming from defective insulin secretion by the pancreas and emergence of insulin resistance. These alterations disrupt lipid and protein metabolism, which may lay the foundation for hyperglycemia. The efficacy and safety of spice herbs from traditional medicine have long been […]

Researchers from the University of Melbourne have been able to track childhood risk factors in developing obstructive sleep apnea later in life, in the first longitudinal study of its kind. The study, published in Respirology, shows some childhood exposures, such as parental smoking and respiratory tract infections as a child are risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea in middle-aged adults. […]

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Zoe Winters explains how to check for breast cancer A woman is urging others to attend cancer screenings after an appointment led to the detection of two types of the disease in her body. Jacqueline McKee, from Belfast, had attended Action Cancer-run mammograms every two years since she turned 40. She missed a scan during the COVID-19 pandemic but attended […]

Dr Samuel Choudhury posted on TikTok about a case whereby a healthy-born infant had to be admitted to ICU and end-of-life care was discussed after they had been given honey. “Do not give this to infants!” the Singaporean GP said of honey, which can lead to infantile botulism. Dr Choudhury said: “You see, about six to 10 percent of honey […]