Credit: Shutterstock When you lift weights, why are you doing what you are doing? Who told you to train that way—coach, a personal trainer, an online exercise guru? And where…
Category: Health & Medicine
Gene variant linked to multiple sclerosis severity
People with multiple sclerosis who inherited the genetic variant from both parents needed a walking aid almost four times faster, the study said. Scientists have discovered a genetic variant linked…
Suicides in Singapore rise to 22-year high: report
Singapore. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Suicides in Singapore rose nearly 26 percent last year to their highest level in more than two decades, reflecting the “unseen mental distress” in the…
Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe
A vending machine is stocked with emergency contraceptives at Odegaard Library on the campus of the University of Washington, Friday, June 2, 2023, in Seattle. After a student-led campaign to…
Study finds we articulate more when speaking to babies and puppies
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Babies and puppies have at least two things in common: aside from being newborns, they promote a positive emotional state in human mothers, leading them to…
Xeroderma pigmentosum study tests artificial antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic
Locations of the ERCC4/XPF intron variants identified in the Japanese XP-F cases. (A) Estimated structures of pre-mRNA products resulting from the ERCC4/XPF intron variants. Cryptic intron fragments identified in the…
Around world, doctors battle impersonators
by Chayanit Itthipongmaetee with Faith Brown in Manila and Anuj Chopra in Washington AFP’s fact-checkers have exposed a slew of cases around the world in which fraudsters impersonated doctors. A…
Loneliness linked with elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Loneliness is a bigger risk factor for heart disease in patients with diabetes than diet, exercise, smoking and depression, according to research published June 29 in…
Gonorrhea shot gets FDA fast track as resistant cases multiply
Credit: CDC GSK Plc’s experimental gonorrhea vaccine got fast-track designation from U.S. regulators, putting the shot in position to become the first preventive for a common, often-undetected infection that’s gaining…
How heart attack and stroke survivors can prepare for wildfires and hurricanes
Environmental disasters are difficult for anyone. For people with cardiovascular disease, they can be particularly risky. As wildfire and hurricane seasons kick into high gear, experts urge extra caution for…
