Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then…
Category: Health & Medicine
Pressure to lose weight in adolescence linked to how people value themselves almost two decades later
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who as teenagers felt pressure to lose weight from family or from the media, females, people who are not heterosexual, and people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage,…
Study shows key role of physical activity and body mass in lung function growth in childhood
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) sheds light on the growth of lung function in children. The results show that…
Carbon beads help restore healthy gut microbiome and reduce liver disease progression, researchers find
CARBALIVE beads viewed with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: University of Brighton/Yaqrit Innovative carbon beads, invented by researchers at UCL, reduce bad bacteria and inflammation in animal models, which are…
Microscopes reveal a frozen moment in cellular time—a new method records cells as they work
A group of killer T cells surround a cancer cell. When a killer T cell makes contact with a target cell, it attaches and spreads over the cell to neutralize…
Subcutaneous infusion of levodopa-carbidopa beneficial for Parkinson’s disease
Subcutaneous infusion of ND0612 (a levodopa-carbidopa solution) increases on time without troublesome dyskinesia among patients with Parkinson disease, according to a study published online March 15 in The Lancet Neurology.…
Ticagrelor monotherapy cuts bleeding risk in acute coronary syndrome
Treatment with ticagrelor alone results in a lower rate of clinically relevant bleeding compared with ticagrelor and aspirin among patients with an acute coronary syndrome who had percutaneous coronary intervention…
At-home HPV testing boosts cervical cancer screening participation
Mailed at-home self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing increases cervical cancer screening participation in underscreened populations by almost threefold, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the…
