Brushing off the backlash! Kristin Cavallari doesn’t let mom-shaming on social media faze her. Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler’s Sweetest Moments With Their 3 Kids “To be honest, I don’t read comments on Instagram so I don’t catch wind of…
Read More
Why The WHO Just Updated Its Face Mask Guidelines
We’re getting closer to widespread vaccine distribution and the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we still have at least a few months to go. Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that we may be in for a rough winter and…
Read More
Why coronavirus rules should be about more than just stopping transmission
The success or failure of coronavirus regulations is often assessed on whether they affect the rate of transmission in the community, and whether or not people comply with them. But what about the ethics behind the measures? With inevitable and…
Read More
Getting it just right: The Goldilocks model of cancer
Sometimes, too much of a good thing can turn out to be bad. This is certainly the case for the excessive cell growth found in cancer. But when cancers try to grow too fast, this excessive speed can cause a…
Read More
Peloton Just Issued a Recall Affecting 27,000 Bikes After 16 People Reported Injuries
If you bought a Peloton bike during that time frame and have never replaced your pedals, you can identify them by the Peloton logo and the word "PELOTON" molded into the pedal body. The PR70P pedal also has an orange…
Read More
Vaccine refusers are health literate and believe they’re pro-science—this just reinforces their view
Australians belonging to the vaccine refusal movement consider themselves a science advocacy group, according to a study published today. My colleagues and I found this group believes it lobbies for unbiased research against increasing industry interference. We also found vaccine…
Read More
Just how reliable are COVID-19 tests? Experts weigh in
You’re feeling pretty darned sick—headache, fever, fatigue, a cough—but your COVID-19 test came back negative. What do you do now? Well, chances are good that you don’t have COVID-19 if that’s what the test says, according to experts. Labs that…
Read More
Just 17% of children with coronavirus are hospitalized
Just 17% of children with coronavirus are hospitalized – and most don’t get any sicker than they would with flu, study suggests New research found ‘no statistical difference’ between rates of hospitalization, ICU admission or mechanical ventilation for children with…
Read More
Mum who thought she just had a tummy ache wakes up paralysed from the waist down
When Emese Illes-Toth found herself in agonising stomach pain as she walked to the post office, she thought it was your usual tummy ache. But just five days later, the mum woke up paralysed from the waist down. An MRI…
Read More
Aging memories may not be ‘worse,’ just ‘different’
“Memory is the first thing to go.” Everyone has heard it, and decades of research studies seem to confirm it: While it may not always be the first sign of aging, some faculties, including memory, do get worse as people…
Read More