Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the idea that the covid virus escaped from a Chinese lab is gaining high-profile attention. As it does, reputations of renowned scientists are at risk — and so is their personal safety. At the…
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Homicides Surge in California Amid Covid Shutdowns of Schools, Youth Programs
Amid a pandemic that left law enforcement agencies stretched thin and forced shutdowns that left young men with little to do, California registered a devastating surge in homicides in 2020 that hit especially hard in Black and Latino communities. The…
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Higher BMI in childhood may help protect women against breast cancer in later life, both before and after the menopause
A study of more than 173,000 women in Denmark, presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that girls with a higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood are less likely than their peers with…
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Virus deaths top 4,000 in India as WHO green-lights Chinese vaccine
New COVID-19 deaths surged past 4,000 for the first time in India on Saturday as it struggled with one of the world’s worst outbreaks, but the global immunisation effort was boosted with WHO approval for Chinese firm Sinopharm’s vaccine. And…
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Algorithms show accuracy in gauging unconsciousness under general anesthesia
Anesthestic drugs act on the brain, but most anesthesiologists rely on heart rate, respiratory rate, and movement to infer whether surgery patients remain unconscious to the desired degree. In a new study, a research team based at MIT and Massachusetts…
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Research breakthrough in the fight against cancer
A team of researchers at the Center for Bioactive Delivery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Institute for Applied Life Sciences has engineered a nanoparticle that has the potential to revolutionize disease treatment, including for cancer. This new research, which…
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Study examines movement in children with autism
For more than a year, researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso’s Stanley E. Fulton Gait Research & Movement Analysis Lab in the College of Health Sciences have been using real-time 3-D animation to investigate motor impairments in…
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33% of neighborhoods in largest US cities were ‘pharmacy deserts’
Black and Latino neighborhoods in the 30 most populous U.S. cities had fewer pharmacies than white or diverse neighborhoods in 2007-2015, USC research shows, suggesting that ‘pharmacy deserts’- like so-called food deserts-may be an overlooked contributor to persistent racial and…
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Cancer rates in medieval Britain around ten times higher than previously thought, study suggests
The first study to use X-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population suggests that between 9-14% of adults in medieval Britain had the disease at the time of their death….
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How Pilates Will Sculpt You Into A Greek Goddess
If уоu’rе fееling unhарру with уоur wоrkоut regimen, you may bе looking fоr something nеw to kеер уоu active аnd ѕtrоng. For wоmеn, Pilаtеѕ classes аrе thе perfect exercise сhоiсе. Pilates hеlрѕ wоmеn sculpt the lean bоdу thеу drеаm оf…
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