In a recent posting on her Facebook page, Brytney Cobia, a physician in Birmingham, Alabama, described the pain of telling COVID patients who are about to be intubated that their pleas for vaccination have come too late. “A few days…
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How To Know If Your Sunglasses Are Really Protecting Your Eyes
With frequent heatwaves reaching all-time record highs around the world, it seems that peak sunglasses (and sunscreen, for that matter) season is here to stay (via Washington Post). They’re no longer mere glossy sidekicks to your summer outfit — they’re…
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How A Tiny Dog Healed A Huge Loss
Margaret with her daughters Taline and Nora, after adopting Cosette. In April 2020, Margaret J. suffered the greatest loss of her life when her husband of 21 years—and father to their two daughters, Taline, 20, and Nora, 17—died of COVID-19….
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A Fitness Coach Shared How She Lost 100 Pounds and Fell in Love With Bodybuilding
As a child, Laura Micetich was given the nickname “Iron Giantess” as she was taller and bigger than her peers. “They thought it was a compliment, but I thought it was the worst name in the world,” she says. In…
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How to treat rosacea: the 6 things that trigger acne rosacea
Acne rosacea is a form of acne that causes a range of different symptoms; mainly papules and pustules on the cheeks, flushed skin, broken blood vessels, and sometimes eye infections. Express.co.uk chatted to Dr Deborah Lee from Dr Fox Online Pharmacy to…
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Researchers discover how cancer cells that spread to lymph nodes avoid immune destruction
Lymph nodes are critical to the body’s immune response against tumors but paradoxically, cancer cells that spread, or metastasize, to lymph nodes can often avoid being eliminated by immune cells. Recent experiments by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and…
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3D assembloid shows how SARS-CoV-2 infects brain cells
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the human…
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How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it can also cause several infections, including liver disorders. The bacteria produce cytolysins, which are molecules that destroy cells. In a new study, researchers…
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How Fitness Trackers Can Aid In The Treatment And Study Of Covid-19
As the global COVID-19 pandemic rages on, new research is being ever completed on its virality, its relationship to vaccines, and its lingering effects both in those who have had it and on society as a whole. For example, the…
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How afraid of COVID variants should we be?
More than 4 million. That’s how many people have been killed by COVID-19 globally as of Thursday. At least, that’s the officially reported number. As SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, continues to spread, it is mutating. It is those…
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