‘Active recovery’ after exercise is supposed to improve performance—but does it really work?

Credit: Tobi from Pexels Imagine you have just finished a workout. Your legs are like jelly, your lungs are burning and you just want to collapse on the couch. But…

Measles outbreaks rise to nearly 100 cases between Texas and New Mexico. Here’s what you should know

Measles and tetanus vaccine vials are ready to be administered at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, on March 8, 2019. Credit: Vernon Bryant/The Dallas…

Vaccine shows promise for pancreatic cancer, study finds

Adding a personalized mRNA vaccine to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients, a small yet promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The study followed…

Certain glucose-lowering meds associated with lower risk for COPD exacerbations

For patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are associated with a reduced risk…

Higher calcium intake linked to reduced colorectal cancer risk

Higher calcium intake is associated with reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) risk across tumor sites and calcium sources, according to a study published online Feb. 17 in JAMA Network Open. Semi…

Packing lipid nanoparticles with tumor proteins to boost cancer vaccine potency

The cancer vaccine targets the lymph system and enhances its ability to recruit T cells to eliminate tumors. Here, three T cells (blue) are shown attacking and breaking apart a…

Survey shows immigrants in Florida – even US citizens – are less likely to seek health care after passage of anti-immigrant laws

Since arriving in the United States four years ago, Alex has worked at a primary care office. He has witnessed firsthand how difficult it was for immigrants to access preventive…

Impacts of workplace bullying on sleep can be ‘contagious’ between partners, research suggests

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Workplace bullying affects not only the employee’s sleep but their partner’s too, according to new research published today. Exposure to bullying by superiors and/or colleagues has…

Prehistoric jewellery has cosmic origins

A study of prehistoric jewellery from the Częstochowa Museum collection has revealed meteoric iron in three bracelets. Meteoric iron is a naturally occurring metal and a remnant of the early…

‘Deaths of despair’ more than double in the US over two decades

Credit: Keira Burton from Pexels The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a global standard for classifying diseases, deaths and health conditions and has been used for more than a…