Immunotherapies have transformed the treatment of several types of cancer over the last decade. Yet they focus on reactivating one arm of the immune system: cytotoxic T cells, which sniff out and kill tumor cells. In a new paper in Nature, scientists at Emory Vaccine Center and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Winship) report on their detailed look at […]
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No matter how you define "clean beauty," you have to admit, CoverGirl has been making major strides toward significantly cleaner makeup formulas. After becoming the biggest makeup brand granted the Leaping Bunny seal in 2018, the drugstore mainstay launched the Clean Fresh collection with products that are vegan, and free of some increasingly unpopular ingredients like talc, parabens, mineral oil, […]
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All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. We've been good all year long, which means we deserve to celebrate the best way we know how: shopping for new beauty products. Lucky for us, Tatcha announced its Black Friday 2020 deals early […]
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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Cholesterol is not intrinsically harmful, in fact, your body needs it to build healthy cells. High levels of cholesterol are harmful, however, because it causes fatty deposits to develop in your blood vessels. This increases your risk […]
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As more than 90,000 of the nation’s long-term care residents have died in the coronavirus pandemic, advocates for the elderly say a tandem wave of fatalities is quietly claiming tens of thousands more who are succumbing not to the virus but to neglect by overwhelmed staffs and slow declines from isolation. Nursing home watchdogs are being flooded with reports of […]
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18, 2020 — Nearly half of U.S. young adults report symptoms of depression, with more than one-third reporting thoughts of death or suicide, according to the results of a survey released by the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States. Roy H. Perlis, M.D., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues conducted an online […]
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this week released a brief describing the experiences of participants in the Sync for Science pilot, nearly five years since the project’s launch. The S4S pilot supported organizations in enabling patients to donate data to researchers at the National Institutes of Health through the development of APIs. By the […]
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A technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) can be used to objectively measure tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, according to a new study published November 18 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mehrnaz Shoushtarian of The Bionics Institute, Australia, and colleagues. Tinnitus, the perception of a high-pitched ringing or buzzing in the ears, affects up to 20% of […]
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A clinical trial has found that a monoclonal antibody reduces low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels by 50% in people with an inherited condition called familial hypercholesterolemia. Individuals with high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol in their blood are at increased risk of developing atherosclerosis (narrowed arteries) and cardiovascular disease. Doctors define severe hypercholesterolemia as untreated LDL cholesterol […]
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Gordon Ramsay and his wife, Tana Ramsay, were devastated by the loss of her pregnancy in 2016, but he went out of his way to keep her spirits up in the weeks and months that followed. Stars Who Had Children After Miscarriages “Gordon was amazing,” Tana, 46, told Metro on Monday, November 16. “He’s always been one to talk about […]
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