High cholesterol: Nutritionist reveals top prevention tips Dubbed the “silent killer”, high cholesterol can hike your risk of serious health problems, ranging from heart disease to strokes. Food can be a double-edged sword in this process, either boosting your levels of the fatty substance, or keeping them in check. Interestingly, various research papers keep backing nuts as a great addition […]
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DR ELLIE CANNON: Why have I suddenly started to produce far too much saliva? A few months ago I started salivating heavily, which means I have to constantly wipe my mouth. My doctor says there is nothing obviously wrong. Can you help? I am aged 70. It is quite rare for people to have too much saliva, but for those […]
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The summit is a good place to be. Jon Anderson hiking Runyon Canyon in Los Angeles, December 2022. Photo courtesy of Jon Anderson. Staying active on the hiking trails around the southern highlands of Australia, where he retired earlier this year after a career in film marketing, Jon Anderson is feeling there’s little he can’t conquer. And he gives credit […]
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My face doubled in size from ‘sun poisoning’ – I looked like Lenny from Shark Tale Abbie Leverseidge, from Northampton, severely burnt her face in Lanzarote The 22-year-old suffered blisters on her forehead and her nose leaked fluid A woman was left devastated after her relaxing holiday was ruined by sun poisoning – leaving her face severely swollen and unrecognisable. Abbie Leverseidge, […]
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The end of Adopt a Shelter Cat Month is here, but there are still plenty of fabulous cats in search of loving homes! If you’re still looking to adopt a cat, or if you know someone who is, here are a few wonderful options of the available senior cats in our NYC and L.A. locations. You might just find the […]
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WHO’s chief scientist says Covid not over yet… because vaccines are weak: British scientist says there’s ‘still a possibility we could go back in a bad direction’ as he warns ‘we don’t have infection-blocking vaccines’ Dr Jeremy Farrar warned of the ‘unlikely but possible scenario’ of another surge The world has insufficient anti-viral drugs and vaccines don’t prevent infection READ […]
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Professor Yanfeng Gao’s team from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University have designed and synthesized Pal-DMPOP, a chimeric peptide that can simultaneously block CD47/SIRPα and PD-1/PD-L1. This bispecific peptide elicits synergistic antitumor activity by enhancing macrophages phagocytosis and activating CD8+ T cells. The findings are published in the journal Science China Life Sciences. Although immune checkpoint inhibition […]
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Bedtime routines can be enough of a struggle as it is, and throwing a bath into the mix is a risky endeavor. Yes, they were sneezed on at daycare. Yes, they somehow got every single thing they ate into […]
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How long infants use parenteral nutrition helps predict whether they will develop retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), according to research published online June 29 in JAMA Ophthalmology. METHODOLOGY: Retrospective study of more than 11,000 infants born prematurely between 2007 and 2020 in Sweden (average gestational age, 28.5 weeks). TAKEAWAY: 29% of the infants developed ROP, and 5% received treatment for the […]
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Volunteering in the community as a child can encourage political activism and voting trends as an adult, according to research from the University of Exeter using the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. What to know: Children from politically disengaged households in the United Kingdom were less likely to volunteer, whereas three quarters of children of engaged parents were also politically active, […]
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