During excavations near Beit Keshet in Lower Galilee, Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered traces of a market within the historic Khan al-Tujjar caravanserais. Khan al-Tujjar,…
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Research shows lasting effects of smoking after quitting
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers are still discovering how smoking continues to harm people’s health even years after they quit, with a new study on Wednesday revealing tobacco’s lasting effect…
Additional study shows promise for low-intensity ultrasound as a non-invasive approach to alleviate pain
Wynn Legon (left), the faculty director of the transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound facilities at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Andrew Strohman, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, were among…
Try a cholesterol-lowering diet for heart health
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With those New Year’s resolutions six weeks behind us, some people may have reverted to less healthy ways of eating. Heart Month is a great time…
Hitchhiking cancer vaccine makes progress in the clinic
Originally developed in the laboratory of Darrell Irvine, “amphiphile” vaccines hitchhike on albumin molecules to the lymph nodes, where they teach the immune system to fight cancer. MIT spinout Elicio…
Trial data underpins FDA approval of omalizumab for food allergy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Today’s Food and Drug Administration approval of a supplemental biologics license for the monoclonal antibody omalizumab (Xolair) highlights the vital role of the National Institutes of…
Study finds Moderna vaccine reduces symptomatic COVID-19 in young adults
Consort diagram of randomized and observational groups. Abbreviations: COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; FAS, full analysis set; FAS-P, full analysis set with PCR data; mRNA, messenger RNA; PCR, polymerase chain reaction;…
New study analyzes link between digit ratio and oxygen consumption in soccer players
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The efficiency of oxygen supply to tissues is a factor in the severity of important diseases such as COVID-19 and heart conditions. Scientists already know that…
Experts outline recommendations for reducing traumatic birth experiences
Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels International experts have published recommendations for practice, policy and research that have the potential to reduce the occurrence of negative birth experiences and the development…
