Reviewers’ Notes Smell loss became the cardinal symptom of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and has ignited research on how smell and taste function. An international study led by the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR) and the Monell Chemical Senses Center has untied taste from smell in people with COVID-19, demonstrating in a large and diverse group of more […]

Most of us who’ve reached middle age have noticed a slowing in memory and cognition, but scientists don’t have a clear picture of the molecular changes that take place in the brain to cause it. Now, a study in mice has determined that the most pronounced changes occur in the white matter, a type of nervous system tissue that’s integral […]

Prior to receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2017, Marzyeh Ghassemi had already begun to wonder whether the use of AI techniques might enhance the biases that already existed in health care. She was one of the early researchers to take up this issue, and she’s been exploring it ever since. In a new paper, Ghassemi, now […]

A university researcher is studying the potential effect of leaky gut syndrome on our overall health. “A mechanism by which gut microbiota elevates permeability and inflammation in obese/diabetic mice and human gut,” a paper coauthored by Bo Wang, chemical engineering assistant professor, and researchers at the University of South Florida, looks at the role of gut microbes. The paper was […]

Blac Chyna (who recently told Forbes that she prefers to use her birth name Angela White when she’s off the stage) is finally addressing those comments Khloé Kardashian made about being a “third parent” to White and Rob Kardashian’s 6-year-old daughter Dream. Scroll down for a quick recap of the situation. Related story Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian Is Reportedly Being Pampered […]

The Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act resulted in a 19% annual increase in Medicaid-insured cancer patients participating in publicly funded clinical trials, according to researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the SWOG Statistics and Data Management Center and Columbia University. Published in JAMA Oncology, the study explored the impact of Medicaid expansion in 2014 and […]

Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, in collaboration with Nashville Biosciences, LLC, a leading clinical and genomic data company and wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), today announced the five founding members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD). The multiyear agreement aims to accelerate development of therapeutics through large-scale […]

Nicole Ari Parker may not be exactly like most moms — the majority of us aren’t starring in hit series such as HBO’s And Just Like That, for starters. But there is one struggle that moms the world over, including Parker, are universally familiar with: the struggle to keep the entire family organized and on track, especially as we shift […]

Britain’s baby bust laid bare: Births plummet to 20-YEAR low as record number of women over-40 give birth Around 600,000 live births were longed in England and Wales last year Figure has been trending downwards since 2012, when 730,000 were recorded Births in England and Wales fell to their lowest level in two decades in 2022, official figures show. Around […]

On occasion, our son Harry could only be described as a ‘full-time child’. He had a permanent grin on his face and boundless sense of adventure, but an often frustrating tendency to cause mischief.  But as a family, we were always laughing. Happy.  Alongside his two siblings, we had a great life – until Harry’s death ripped a huge hole […]