Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exercising before bed has long been discouraged as the body doesn’t have time to wind down before the lights go out. But new research has found…
Category: Health & Medicine
Why are some people happy when they are dying?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Simon Boas, who wrote a candid account of living with cancer, passed away on July 15 at the age of 47. In a recent BBC interview,…
‘State of health care for women is in a fragile place’—Florida women are dying from preventable causes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Florida women are dying from causes that are preventable, including breast and cervical cancer, pregnancy complications and mental health conditions, according to a new national scorecard…
Some have called this area a birthing ‘desert.’ A nurse midwife is working to change that
Credit: SHVETS production from Pexels Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child. Logan was determined to have her…
UK teenagers get two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods—new study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Humans have been processing food for thousands of years. While some processing can increase food’s safety and shelf-life, consuming lots of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is linked…
Summer COVID surge isn’t cause for alarm, experts say
Credit: CC0 Public Domain President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week became prime examples of the nation’s newest COVID-19 wave, and although it’s unclear…
Research shows spike gene mutations do not correlate with increased SARS-CoV-2 variant severity
A visual representation of the novel in silico methodology used in the study: prediction of protein structure, molecular docking simulations, and statistical analysis of computational metrics. Credit: UNC Charlotte New…
Single women in Australian aged care need more funding as new data show widows living longer
Temporal plots of average lengths of stay at an aged care across various covariates: uncensored data over 2008–2018. a Year. b Sex. c Age. d State. e Preferred language. f…
Time-lapse imaging for embryo selection in IVF does not improve the odds of live birth, large study finds
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A randomized controlled trial looked at in-vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes in the UK and Hong Kong. The results, published in The Lancet, provide much-needed evidence that…
Rising antimicrobial resistance in certain Salmonella serovars isolated from retail chicken meat
Scanning electron micrograph of Salmonella Typhimurium invading a human epithelial cell. S. Typhimurium has been decreasing in prevalence due to vaccinations by the poultry industry. Credit: National Institute of Allergy…
