Covid hospital admissions ‘unlikely’ to match last winter – despite 1m positive cases
Covid restrictions: Boris Johnson quizzed on wearing facemasks We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding….
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Vape POLL: Should taxpayers fund e-cigarettes for smokers?
Smoking and vaping: NHS shows difference between the two We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our…
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Lonely after lockdown? How COVID may leave us with fewer friends if we are not careful
Many of us have been struggling with isolation and loneliness during COVID lockdowns, despite the increase in online interactions. Amid concerns over lost friendships and social skills, people may be wondering if their social lives will “go back to normal”…
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Drug could help diabetic hearts recover after heart attack
Researchers at the University of Oxford have identified a drug that could ultimately help improve heart function in people with diabetes who have heart attacks. The drug, currently in clinical trials as a potential treatment for a form of anemia,…
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Treatment strategy may lead to HIV cure
Armed with a novel strategy they developed for bolstering the body’s immune response, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have successfully suppressed HIV infections in mice—offering a path to a functional cure for HIV and other chronic viral infections….
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The Robots Are Coming… to Do Your Hair
If the last time you saw a robot was in the Tiki Room at Disney, let me say that 1) I like your style and 2) there have been a few updates. The oblong shape in the Venn diagram where…
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COVID-19 vaccination rates among minority populations
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened many social and economic disparities, in addition to the biological risk factors that have put several ethnicities at greater risk of hospitalization and death due to severe COVID-19. Vaccination appears to be…
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Keke Palmer Is the Spitting Image of Grace Jones With a Flat-Top Fade
Keke Palmer isn't afraid to switch up her hair for a bold new look. Palmer delivers each and every time as, she did with the braided space buns she wore at the premiere for Insecure's series final and the curly…
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Machine-learning model can detect rare cardiomyopathy
A machine-learning model can identify patients at risk of a rare cardiomyopathy, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) can cause heart failure and should be treated differently than other causes of heart failure, so…
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B12 deficiency: Can you hear that? The sign in your hearing signalling low B12 levels
Dr Dawn Harper on signs of vitamin B12 and vitamin D deficiency We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties…
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