Genetics
CBD for anxiety: can it help?
Anxiety disorder can make it hard to navigate life, but lately CBD has been touted as a natural treatment for the nerve-wracking condition. You can buy […]
Study recommends using age, not weight, to screen for diabetes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers should focus on age, not weight, to capture the greatest number of people in all racial and ethnic groups with prediabetes […]
Almost all countries around the world criminalize abortion in some circumstances, finds global review
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Almost all countries around the globe criminalize abortion in some circumstances, despite the public health risks and impact on human rights, finds […]
Study examines the link between mental health and oral health
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study examining the mental health-oral health association cross-sectionally and longitudinally was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the […]
Community health workers can help protect pregnant women and their babies from malaria
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Community health workers can make a great difference in increasing the number of pregnant women who receive life-saving preventive antimalarial treatment, according […]
Leaders say ‘never again’ to vaccine inequity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Three years since the Covid pandemic began, nearly 200 prominent world figures called on Saturday for the vaccine inequity seen during the […]
Can children read maps at the age of four?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children start to develop the basic skills that underlie map reading from the age of four, according to new research from the […]
Transcatheter mitral valve repair in heart failure patients significantly reduces hospitalizations and improves survival
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Transcatheter mitral valve repair for heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation can reduce the long-term rate of hospitalizations by almost 50 percent, […]
High-flow nasal cannula usage outside of intensive care associated with longer hospital stays, higher costs
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) treatment for patients with mild to moderate bronchiolitis may be associated with longer hospital stays and higher cost […]
Obesity in pregnant women could alter structure and function of placenta, raising poor health outcome risk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Maternal obesity alters the structure of the placenta (a vital organ that nourishes the baby during pregnancy) more than gestational diabetes mellitus […]
White House braces for ruling on abortion pill’s fate
People gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion […]
Any regular physical activity at any age linked to better brain function in later life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Any regular leisure time physical activity at any age is linked to better brain function in later life, but maintaining an exercise […]
How COVID-19 can impact the heart
Hearts from mice infected with COVID-19 have an increased percentage of fibrosis and dilation of the fibers—a common indicator of early cardiomyopathy in mice. Credit: Andrew […]
Mothers’ alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to changes in children’s face shapes
1. Tier 1: PAE only before pregnancy; Tier 2a: PAE during first trimester, but abstinent during trimesters two and three; and Tier 2b: PAE during first […]
Study suggests that wildfire smoke increases risk of going into labor prematurely
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting—and published in […]
Tobacco and e-cigs may put healthy young people at risk of severe COVID illness, new research suggests
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New UCLA research suggests that smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase healthy young people’s risk for developing severe COVID illness. […]
Being married may help people maintain lower blood sugar levels
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People living with a spouse seem to have a higher likelihood of being healthy in terms of maintaining lower blood sugar levels […]
Black South Africans report higher life satisfaction and are at less risk for depression post-migration
Credit: University of Missouri Although relocating can be stressful, a new study at the University of Missouri found Black South Africans who migrated far away from […]
Planting more trees could decrease deaths from higher summer temperatures in cities by a third, modeling study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One third of premature deaths attributable to higher temperatures in European cities during summer 2015 could have been prevented by increasing urban […]
‘Constant danger’: Life after leprosy, a long neglected disease
M. leprae, one of the causative agents of leprosy. Credit: Public Domain Dan Izzett has lived with leprosy’s effects on his body for 70 years, and […]
July 26, 2022
Black and white electron microscopy imaging of retinal pigment epithelium cells. Credit: Dr Grace Lidgerwood Better diagnosis and treatment of the incurable eye disease age-related macular […]
May 31, 2021
NIH researchers discovered a new form of ALS that begins in childhood. The study linked the disease to a gene called SPLTC1. As part of the […]
March 17, 2021
Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than 1,200 people with rare diseases have received a diagnosis thanks to the integration of large-scale genomics into the Stockholm region’s […]
February 21, 2021
In African Americans, the genetic risk landscape for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is very different from that of people with European ancestry, according to results of […]
February 21, 2021
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Mayo Clinic have combined results from a functional test measuring the effect of inherited variants in the BRCA2 breast and […]
February 11, 2021
The continent from which humanity emerged got left behind in this giant leap forward, and remains a genetic blank slate compared to Europe or the United […]
January 27, 2021
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus have developed a new computational method for studying genetic and environmental interactions […]
January 6, 2021
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has discovered several genetic markers associated with bone mineral accrual, […]
December 18, 2020
Atherosclerosis is a condition affecting the cardiovascular system. If atherosclerosis occurs in the coronary arteries (which supply the heart) the result may be angina pectoris, or […]