‘Down to My Last Diaper’: The Anxiety of Parenting in Poverty
For parents living in poverty, “diaper math” is a familiar and distressingly pressing daily calculation. Babies in the U.S. go through six to 10 disposable diapers a day, at an average cost of $70 to $80 a month. Name-brand diapers…
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Long-term predictions of immunity after two doses of mRNA vaccine
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused many countries to enact costly restrictions on freedom of movement and business. The rapid transmission of the disease and high mortality amongst at-risk groups such as the immunocompromised lead to the disease-causing over…
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Pediatricians and health officials should present a united front against controversial state masking bans for schools
To keep in-person learning and protect students in schools, pediatricians and public health officials must advocate for evidence-based mitigation strategies that can reduce COVID-19 transmission—especially the Delta variant, which overwhelmed pediatric emergency rooms and hospitals, argued Yang et al. in…
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Teaching ancient brains new tricks: New research shows how modern physicists think
The science of physics has strived to find the best possible explanations for understanding matter and energy in the physical world across all scales of space and time. Modern physics is filled with complex concepts and ideas that have revolutionized…
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Covid cases map exposes terrifying UK spike – deaths also rising
Coronavirus in numbers: UK records 34,574 more cases 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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Bradley Walsh health: The Chase’s TV host has a ‘seriously bad’ health condition – signs
The Larkins reboot with Bradley Walsh begins on ITV 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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Researchers identify brain circuitry in rodents that may be responsible for negative emotional aspects of pain
A new study published today in Nature Neuroscience has uncovered neuronal circuitry in the brain of rodents that may play an important role in mediating pain-induced anhedonia—a decrease in motivation to perform reward-driven behaviors. In the study funded by the…
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Lactoferrin supplements could be used as adjunct for COVID-19 and other respiratory tract infections
The antiviral properties of lactoferrin makes it a great natural supplement that could also be used as an adjunct for COVID-19 and for various other Respiratory Tract Infections (RTIs) according to a team of researchers led by the University of…
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Timing Is Crucial: Sooner Is Better for Rectal Cancer Surgery
Survival outcomes were considerably better in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer who had surgery within 8 weeks after not responding to upfront chemoradiation, when compared with patients who had surgery later. In fact, the difference in time when the…
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How to protect your DNA data
Knowing how to protect your DNA data is incredibly important, because your genetic code is the blueprint for much of who you are. Thanks to the development of cheap genomics, at-home DNA testing kits from Ancestry, 23andMe, MyHeritage and others…
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