Luke Worthington's at-home superset workout
It’s not too late to start a New Year’s resolution – although as sports scientist and personal trainer Luke Worthington says, ‘fitness challenges and bootcamps are not sustainable’. ‘Six workouts a week might be attainable in January but after that…
Read MoreNew study shows antibody responses typically equalize over time, but some patients could be left behind
A new analysis by Cedars-Sinai investigators is furthering the scientific community’s understanding of COVID-19 immunity by showing that similar levels of COVID-19 antibodies are reached over an extended period of time in different population groups. Early data on COVID-19 vaccines…
Read MoreFrom hospital to home: Rooming-in program provides peace of mind for families and nurses
A novel rooming-in program at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta provided greater peace of mind for families of infants with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) and the pediatric nurses preparing the infants for discharge. The transition to home for infants who…
Read MoreOmicron COVID Booster Cuts Hospitalization in Over 65s: Study
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccine booster developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE sharply reduced hospitalizations among older patients, Israeli researchers said on Monday, in some of the first evidence of the jab’s real-world effectiveness. The study by…
Read MoreSpike protein mutations in Omicron subvariants increase their susceptibility to reductive cleavage of disulfide bonds
In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers discovered that the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is susceptible to cleavage at the disulfide bonds. They also found that the vulnerability to reductive…
Read MoreUnique survey tool closely tracked the pulse of the nation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
In the early, hectic days of the COVID-19 pandemic, government officials, scientists, researchers and the world at large were scrambling to understand (and contain) the virus. But some scholars were already turning their attention to how the crisis was affecting…
Read MoreStudy explores incidence, severity, and long COVID associations of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, a team of researchers from the United States used electronic health records to characterize the incidence, biomarkers, attributes, and severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfections and evaluated…
Read MoreDrew Barrymore Reveals She Sometimes Feels ‘Overwhelmed’ & ‘Like a Failure’ in Parenting — & Every Mom Can Relate
Feeling like you don’t know what to do as a parent might be common, but it’s hard to tell because no one talks about it. I will never forget tearfully telling a mom friend that I still didn’t know how…
Read MoreA silent killer, liver cancer prompts race to improve organ replacements
With the only cure for liver cancer often being a transplantation, scientists are honing the selection of patients for this life-saving surgery and growing replacement livers in a lab. More victims of liver cancer stand to survive as a result…
Read MoreResearchers investigate Scandinavian history across 2,000 years
In a recent study published in Cell, researchers investigated the history of Scandinavia for the period from the Roman period (between 1.0 CE and 400.0 CE) to the present, spanning over 2,000 years. Study: The genetic history of Scandinavia from…
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