From the moment we are born, and even before that, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. We move our eyes to see. We wiggle, we walk, we gesture, we dance. How does our brain remember this wide range of motions? How does it learn […]
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Women deserve to have genuine options for funded planned home birth. It is the woman, after all, who is going to birth and her right to choose the place she has her baby should be first and foremost. A mother should be supported to birth wherever she feels safe and for many that is in the comfort of their own […]
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The human brain is lipid rich. Lipids and fatty acids contribute to many important cellular processes. Alpha-synuclein -; a protein that plays a critical role in Parkinson's disease (PD) -; is known to interact with and alter the balance of lipids and fatty acids. Investigators from the Brigham and Harvard Medical School are exploring how to rebalance fatty acid metabolism […]
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Drugmaker Takeda announced Thursday that its dengue vaccine candidate, TAK-003, prevented 84% of hospitalized dengue cases and 61% of symptomatic cases in 4.5 years of follow-up during its phase 3 TIDES trial. Critically importantly, they identified no important safety risks in this trial of more than 20,000 children and teens in Southeast Asia and Latin America. “We have a total […]
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A new study led by the global Cancer Grand Challenges PRECISION team, including researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, shifts the long-held belief that all invasive breast cancers following ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) arise from the original DCIS lesion. The results, published today in Nature Genetics, demonstrate that roughly one in five invasive cancers were […]
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Women deserve to have genuine options for funded planned home birth. It is the woman, after all, who is going to birth and her right to choose the place she has her baby should be first and foremost. A mother should be supported to birth wherever she feels safe and for many that is in the comfort of their own […]
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Struggling to breathe, Patty Cowick knew she had to head to the emergency room at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, in May. But she dreaded the discomfort and confinement of staying in the hospital. Cowick, 60, has congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and had been hospitalized before. “I said can’t you do something and let me […]
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Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have identified a new disease that affects the macula, a small part of the light-sensing retina needed for sharp, central vision. Scientists report their findings on the novel macular dystrophy, which is yet to be named, in JAMA Ophthalmology. Macular dystrophies are disorders that usually cause central visual loss because of mutations in […]
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Expectant mama Brittany Mahomes is an undeniable admirer of Burberry. She’s dressed her adorable daughter, Sterling — who she shares with husband Patrick Mahomes — in the designer label on more than one occasion. Brittany decided to copy her little girl as they stepped out for ‘The Match’ charity golf outing in Las Vegas on June 1, generic lodine where […]
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Why are we so sure that the way we see people, cheap claritin usa situations and politics is accurate, and the way other people see them is foolishly wrong? The answer, according to new research by UCLA psychology professor Matthew Lieberman, lies in a region of the brain he calls the “gestalt cortex,” which helps people make sense of information […]
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