Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In recent years, the world of kink lifestyles and subcultures has gained increasing attention. Kink is a general term that includes various expressions of unconventional or…
Category: Health & Medicine
Extreme heat projected to increase cardiovascular deaths
3D Model of the heart by Dr. Matthew Bramlet. Credit: NIH Cardiovascular-related deaths due to extreme heat are expected to increase between 2036 and 2065 in the United States, according…
Don’t toss those pumpkin seeds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It all started with a question from a reader in Missouri: “Can pumpkin seeds minimize an overactive bladder? Is it better to eat ground-up pumpkin seeds…
Over 100 dead from cholera, dengue in war-torn Sudan
Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikipedia Outbreaks of cholera and dengue fever in war-torn Sudan have left more than 100 people dead since August, the health ministry…
Hospital’s pioneering gene therapy aims to free patients of blood disease. Is a cure at hand?
by Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Born with a deadly blood disease, Clint and Alissa Finlayson’s adopted daughters—Ada, nine, and Lily, 12—are the first patients…
It’s as safe to get your prescription from a nurse practitioner as from a doctor
Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients—but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests. Nurse practitioners…
Could gut fungi be linked to severe COVID? What to make of new research findings
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of…
An updated look at prostate cancer disparities
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have found that Black men respond as well as white men to systemic therapies for advanced prostate cancer when access to quality health…
Brazil scientists developing new ‘vaccine’ for cocaine addiction
View of a vial of Calixcoca, a vaccine for cocaine and crack addiction being developed at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Scientists in Brazil, the world’s second-biggest…
Does guideline-based treatment prevent racial disparities in cardiovascular outcomes?
Credit: Christina Morillo from Pexels Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death for women within most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. A new study in the…
