The number of new COVID-19 cases reported worldwide rose by 80 percent in the last month, the World Health Organization said on Friday, days after designating a new “variant of interest”. The WHO declared in May that COVID is no longer a global health emergency, but has warned that the virus will continue to circulate and mutate, causing occasional spikes […]
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Experts are warning one sign on your skin could indicate a common lung condition. This sign, often referred to as ‘chicken skin,’ may actually be a visible clue someone has asthma, a condition which affects 5.4 million people in the United Kingdom alone. Medically known as keratosis pilaris, ‘chicken skin’ manifests as dry, rough patches and tiny bumps, typically appearing […]
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A Monash University-led study has proposed a solution for the urgent need to capture real-time data on the impact of climate change-related events on human health, health care workforces, and health care systems at the point of care. As the global community faces growing climate challenges, the study calls for action, collaboration, and innovation to safeguard human health and well-being […]
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Hospital doctors in England on Friday launched a new walkout in a dispute with the government over pay in the latest strike action to hit the UK’s state-funded National Health Service. The four-day strike by junior doctors comes amid record patient waiting times due to a large pandemic backlog and strikes across the economy as workers demand pay rises in […]
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Reviewers’ Notes Two distinct neurodevelopmental abnormalities that arise just weeks after the start of brain development have been associated with the emergence of autism spectrum disorder, according to a new Yale-led study in which researchers developed brain organoids from the stem cells of boys diagnosed with the disorder. And, researchers say, the specific abnormalities seem to be dictated by the […]
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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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Scientists at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health led an international research team that published two articles detailing changes in DNA—changes that researchers found are shared by humans and other mammals throughout history and are associated with life span and numerous other traits. “We’ve discovered that the life spans of mammals are closely associated with chemical modifications […]
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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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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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A collaborative study undertaken by the Navarrabiomed Biomedical Research Center (Pamplona, Navarre), the Institute of Neurosciences CSIC-UMH (Sant Joan d’Alacant, Valencian Community) and IRB Barcelona (Barcelona, Catalonia) shows that the administration of ranolazine, a drug currently used to treat heart conditions, improves the efficacy of current therapies for melanoma, in mouse models of this disease. The journal Nature Metabolism has […]
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