Suicide rates continue to rise among Americans

The mental health crisis hitting Americans shows no sign of abating, with provisional numbers for 2022 showing suicides rose by another 2.6% last year. That follows on an overall 5% increase in suicides in 2021, noted officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which on Thursday released the early data for 2022. Overall, 49,449 Americans lost their […]

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Research shows the value of COVID-19 boosters for those who are pregnant, trying to conceive

Pregnant individuals who had a previous COVID-19 infection and received a full course of COVID-19 vaccination and a booster have the strongest immune protection from the disease—and pass that protection along to their unborn babies, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine and The Rockefeller University investigators. The researchers, whose study is published in Nature Communications, examined pregnant […]

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Gabrielle Union & Daughter Kaavia Sing an Affirmation Song & It’s Going To Be Stuck in Our Heads All Day

Learning how to love yourself is a never-ending journey, and Gabrielle Union and her daughter Kaavia just revealed one way they work on this at home. The duo sings an affirmation song for some positivity in their day — and it’s definitely a bop! Affirmation Song Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images The Perfect Find star sang her affirmations […]

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Longer duration of type 2 diabetes linked to brain changes

Reviewers’ Notes The longer a person has type 2 diabetes, the more likely they may be to experience changes in brain structure, a Michigan Medicine study finds. Researchers analyzing data from 51 middle-aged Pima American Indians living with type 2 diabetes used a series of memory and language tests developed by the National Institutes of Health, called the NIH Toolbox […]

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Scientists discover a therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease

Reviewers’ Notes Scientists at Université Laval and the University of Lethbridge have succeeded in reversing certain cognitive manifestations associated with Alzheimer's disease in an animal model of the disease. Their results have been published in the scientific journal Brain. Although this has yet to be demonstrated in humans, we believe that the mechanism we have uncovered constitutes a very interesting […]

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Have social determinants of health affected COVID-19 vaccine uptake?

In a recent study published in Vaccine, researchers investigated clinically significant predictors of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination uptake among individuals with social and medical susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, residing in the Essex County of New Jersey. Study: Individual and structural determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in a marginalized community in the United States. […]

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Illumina cuts annual profit forecast as biotech funding woes linger

(Reuters) -Illumina Inc cut annual profit forecast, in a sign that a funding crunch among its biotech and pharmaceutical clients is expected to weigh on sales for its genetic testing tools and diagnostics products.FILE PHOTO: The offices of gene sequencing company Illumina Inc are shown in San Diego, California January 11, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoShares were down nearly 6% in […]

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