They are young and well-trained—but a fourth of sport science students suffers from pain in combination with psychosocial stresses. This was revealed in a study that originated at Goethe University. When active sport is at the centre of a profession…
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OK, we’re dealing with COVID-19, but what’s a virus in the first place?
Everybody knows by now that the United States and the world are in the grip of one of the dangerous coronaviruses called COVID-19, but what’s a virus and how can it make us feel ill? Why do our bodies react…
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How not to let the cononavirus crisis turn you into a paranoid wreck
How not to let the cononavirus crisis turn you into a paranoid wreck and keep your mental health in tip-top shape Popping to grandma’s for tea, visiting the GP, meeting friends for after-work drinks, or going in to work at all…
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Here's Exactly What Medical Experts Mean by a 'Fever'
In addition to a cough and shortness of breath, public health institutions list “fever,” as a one of the symptoms of the coronavirus COVID-19. Except that many of these institutions don’t go into greater detail about what a fever actually…
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A protein that controls inflammation
A study by the research team of Prof. Geert van Loo (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) has unraveled a critical molecular mechanism behind autoimmune and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and psoriasis. They discovered how the protein…
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How to Set up a Schedule That Won’t Burn You Out
The rough outline of your day probably has a lot of blanks like mine does. For example, my schedule outline has things like “shoot video or write” and “deal with logistical stuff.” You might have things like “outline notes before…
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Coronavirus deaths leap 242 in a single day – the biggest rise ever
Coronavirus deaths leap 242 in a single day – the biggest rise ever – as total cases soar past 60,000 after China changes the way it diagnoses sufferers Hubei Health Commission announced 242 new recorded deaths in a single day …
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Homicide is a leading cause of pregnancy-associated death in Louisiana
Homicide is a leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in Louisiana, according to an analysis of birth and death records from 2016 and 2017. The study, appearing as a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics, was funded by…
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Using a cappella to explain speech and music specialization
Speech and music are two fundamentally human activities that are decoded in different brain hemispheres. A new study used a unique approach to reveal why this specialization exists. Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University created 100…
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What’s next for coronavirus, how to avoid it, and will there be a vaccine?
As the new coronavirus, known in shorthand as COVID-19, continues to spread around the world, researchers, including those at the University of Virginia, are turning their attention to developing vaccines and antiviral drugs that could contain and treat the respiratory…
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