For many kids, summer is a time to stay up late, sleep in and hang out with friends. Waking up for that first day of a new school year can be a shock if young children, teenagers, parents or caregivers have not come up with a routine. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Stephen Whiteside, a Mayo Clinic child psychologist, […]
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Reviewers’ Notes Breastfeeding has long been used as a method to help keep newborns healthy and protected against a variety of diseases. But certain sugars naturally found in breastmilk could also help prevent infections before a baby arrives. Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have found that these sugars can stop a common prenatal infection in human tissues and pregnant […]
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Scientific excellence requires diversity—research conducted by men and women, by people from different backgrounds and with varied worldviews. The need for diversity extends to scientific experiments themselves, but even today the vast majority of studies in the life sciences are done on male mice only, which could harm the findings, as well as our ability to extrapolate from them to […]
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Scientific excellence requires diversity—research conducted by men and women, by people from different backgrounds and with varied worldviews. The need for diversity extends to scientific experiments themselves, but even today the vast majority of studies in the life sciences are done on male mice only, which could harm the findings, as well as our ability to extrapolate from them to […]
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, wrote a letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, on Aug. 8, seeking clarity into the technology developer’s Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence chatbot, and how it’s being deployed and trained in healthcare settings. WHY IT MATTERS In the letter, Warner expresses concerns about some news reports highlighting inaccuracies in the technology, and […]
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Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Oeiras) and Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG, Dresden) identified a new mechanism that exposes some of the multitasking abilities embryos need to build a functional retina. The discovery, published in Nature, provides an important contribution to understanding how healthy organs are built, which is ultimately critical for understanding […]
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Plasma levels of three proteins involved in growth hormone activity showed significant links to the controllability of type 2 diabetes in adolescents, a finding that suggests these proteins may serve as risk markers for incident type 2 diabetes and help identify kids who could benefit from aggressive preventive care. Dr Chang Lu “Plasma growth hormone mediators are associated with glycemic […]
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A migraine is far more than just a headache—it’s a debilitating disorder of the nervous system. People who have migraines experience severe throbbing or pulsating pain, typically on one side of the head. The pain is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and extreme sensitivity to light or sound. An attack may last for hours or days, and to ease the […]
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University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could predict the risk of cardiac arrest in children hospitalized in cardiac intensive care units. The technology is the latest work from the Statistical Artificial Intelligence and Relational Learning Group, a UT Dallas research lab where experts develop AI to assist health care providers. The researchers aim […]
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In a recent study published in Vaccines, researchers review the effectiveness of seasonal vaccinations against influenza, in which almost 50% of vaccinations were found to prevent disease successfully. A match between influenza strains present in vaccines and strains in local circulation was identified as the most important factor in vaccine efficacy. Study: Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Persons Aged 15–64 Years: […]
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