Hailey Bieber Wants Kids 'So Bad' — But Reveals the One Thing Holding Her Back
Hailey Bieber is ready to have babies — and she’s been ready — but one thing is holding her back from motherhood, and it’s a sad testament to how toxic digital culture has become. Related story We Finally Have a…
Read MoreTwo Brits are struck down with bird flu
Two Brits are struck down with bird flu but health chiefs insist there’s no proof killer virus is spreading between humans Two poultry workers tested positive for the virus after visiting an infected farm Read more: Fears as virologists discover bird…
Read MoreAn elusive mechanism of wasting syndrome cachexia revealed
Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Koc University in Turkey and the Pole of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research at Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, have collaborated to interrogate the…
Read MoreBioengineering active immunotherapy for personalized cancer treatment
Breast cancer is resistant to immunotherapies; therefore, bioengineers and oncologists seek to develop a slew of therapeutic strategies to overcome this challenge. In a new report in Science Advances, Kerui Wu and colleagues in the departments of cancer biology, translation…
Read MoreViruses in the guts of centenarians may help them resist pathogens
New research suggests that centenarians—people who live to be at least 100—have a diverse collection of viruses in their gut that could help protect them from infectious diseases. The findings, published May 15 in Nature Microbiology, shed light on some…
Read MoreInsights from blood donors: Serosurveillance reveals population insights for targeted health interventions
In a recent study published in the journal Eurosurveillance, researchers described how they set up a surveillance system in Wales, United Kingdom (UK), using residual samples from the Welsh Blood Service (WBS) to gather information on community exposure to severe…
Read MoreParkinsons in Marines Tied to Toxic Water at Camp Lejeune
There is a robust link between environmental exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) in drinking water and subsequent Parkinson’s disease (PD) in marines attending Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. In one of the best-documented, large-scale contaminations…
Read MorePBMs, the brokers who control drug prices, finally get Washingtons attention
For two decades, patients and physicians eagerly awaited a lower-cost version of the world’s bestselling drug, Humira, while its maker, AbbVie, fought off potential competitors by building a wall of more than 250 patents around it. When the first Humira…
Read MoreExperts warn about hidden muscle atrophy
It is a condition that has received little attention to date, and it mainly affects people who are obese: due to a lack of exercise, this population group can suffer from gradual muscle atrophy, which remains hidden under the fat…
Read MoreStudy finds how COVID-19 disrupted lives of families with kids who have ADHD
While the COVID-19 pandemic was disruptive for all families, new research finds that families raising children who have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were especially vulnerable. Barbara Fenesi, assistant professor with the Faculty of Education at Western, was senior author for…
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