My Inability to Date Successfully Didn't Make Sense — Until I Was Diagnosed as Autistic at Age 39
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. My autism diagnosis started with a man. It’s not the beginning to a journey of self-discovery that I —…
Read MoreClaustrophobia can be debilitating. Here’s how experts treat it
Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Reading the news in the past few weeks has frequently left me feeling nauseous, faint and panicked. If it wasn’t the story of…
Read More$9.8 million NCI grant aims to combat cancer disparities
Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University have been awarded a $9.8 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to help combat cancer disparities fueled by persistent poverty. The competitive award, will…
Read MoreRace- and gender-specific interventions may be more effective at preventing overdose deaths
Interventions to address stimulant and opioid use that consider race and gender may prove more effective at preventing overdose deaths than current methods, according to a Penn State-led team of researchers who studied how drug treatment admissions and overdose deaths…
Read MoreIn a first for organ transplantation, cryogenically frozen rat kidneys still usable after 100 days
A team of cryo-engineers and surgeons at the University of Minnesota has found a way to cryogenically freeze and thaw rat organs in a way that preserves their viability. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group…
Read MoreNew sensor chip detects disease pathogens with 10x sensitivity
Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists and collaborators at Iowa State University have developed a sensor chip that can detect many disease pathogens with 10 times the sensitivity of currently available methods. The chip also eliminates the need for chemical dye…
Read MoreWarning to parents as baby's upset stomach turns out to be cancer
A 16-month-old baby is fighting a rare type of blood cancer that affects just one in a million young children every year. Over six months, little Luca Biviano had multiple chest infections and a swollen stomach – but was sent…
Read MoreSupervised deep learning shown to enable more accurate delirium detection
The first proof-of-concept pilot study with a limited-lead, rapid-response electroencephalogram medical device, which measures the electrical activity of the brain, and Vision Transformer, a supervised deep learning method, detected changes associated with delirium before the onset of symptoms – when…
Read MoreUnveiling the truth: tropical hunter-gatherers' diets contradict Paleo diet assumptions
In a recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers assessed the dietary variations of tropical hunters and gatherers and the impact of the collection approach on implied macronutrient proportions. Study: Comparing Measured Dietary Variation Within and Between…
Read MoreHope for infertile couples as scientists say hormone could help
Hope for thousands of couples battling unexplained infertility: Hormone treatment may double their chances of having a baby, study finds Study suggests a dose of progesterone could double the odds of having a baby READ MORE: Fifth of women who…
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