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Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Ostrich Paradox: How our inability to process risk is crippling responses to COVID
The question is… Why do some take the threat of the virus more seriously than others? Your risk of contracting ...
Colder weather with its lower humidity likely to lead to COVID spread
Dutch researchers have now been able to prove that tiny drops of 5 micrometres in diameter, such as those produced ...
Viewpoint: How Canada corralled COVID while the US failed
There are a number of theories as to why Canada has managed to flatten the Covid-19 curve much better than ...
COVID has amped up our cortisol stress response. Here’s how you can manage your diet to control anxiety
Stress seems to be a common state of mind these days. With COVID-19 still very much present, and with solutions ...
IF – intermittent fasting: How and why it works
IF comes in three main flavors: alternate-day fasting, when people alternate between feast days (eating normally or a little extra) and ...
The bubonic plague sparked cultural and technological transformation. What might come from COVID?
Europe was in the grips of history's deadliest pandemic, the Black Death. This, too, likely originated in China and followed ...
Pediatrician on her personal awakening as mother of a transgender daughter
Being a pediatrician and mother of three, I didn’t think there were many parenting scenarios that could catch me unprepared ...
What can stop COVID? How do pandemics end?
The promise of a vaccine for COVID-19 is inching closer to reality, with some candidate vaccines already approaching the last big hurdle ...
Poop detection is the latest ‘cutting-edge’ test to protect returning college students from COVID
The [University of Arizona] is regularly screening the sewage from each dorm, searching for traces of the virus. On [September ...
Flying? What are the real risks from COVID?
In the absence of reliable data, we decided to ask the experts about the possibility of contracting the virus while ...
Africa was expected to be a coronavirus graveyard. Could COVID be rapidly receding instead?
Prof Francesco Checchi, a specialist in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told MPs it was ...
Plagued by chronic illnesses, elderly blacks dying at alarming rate
They are perishing quietly, out of sight, in homes and apartment buildings, senior housing complexes, nursing homes and hospitals, disproportionately poor, frail and ...
Fox News fetes Chinese scientists claiming China made and intentionally released COVID virus. Turns out they are on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s payroll
A strange new paper claiming the coronavirus was a "laboratory product" quietly made its way into a repository of preliminary research ...
Viewpoint: Why grow GMOs? To prevent cancer, pesticide poisoning and farmer suicides
Activists who desperately cling to lies about the risks of GM crops are now the ones who look 'very stupid.' ...
Masculinity crisis? Social roles and what defines manhood are in flux
Usually, masculinity is defined in terms of various lists of traits or characteristics. However, there is no authoritative list of such ...
After watching family member suffer ALS-related anxiety, family launches campaign to encourage patients to try medical marijuana
[Pete Frates, a] Boston College graduate who had been diagnosed with ALS years earlier, was already seeing top psychiatrists and ...
Even if a COVID vaccine is approved this winter, most Americans won’t get access until mid-2021
While a "very limited supply" of a Covid-19 vaccine might be ready in November or December, it "will have to ...
Protective ‘herd immunity’ may come a lot sooner than predicted
To achieve so-called herd immunity — the point at which the virus can no longer spread widely because there are ...
‘I’ve saved 38 days of ‘wasted time’ in five years by not showering. What else happened?’
If you spent 30 minutes per day showering and applying products, over the course of a long life—100 years, for ...
Vaccine advances for gastric, pancreatic, esophageal and colon cancer
Scientists at Thomas Jefferson University who are developing a cancer vaccine to prevent recurrences of gastric, pancreatic, esophageal, and colon ...
Horse antibody therapies to contain COVID under development in Latin America
Borrowing from decades of experience in producing snake antivenoms, scientists, veterinarians and technicians at a scientific and technical institute in ...
‘COVID is like a burglar who slips into your unlocked window and ransacks your house’
It was, in the words of Dr. Daniel Jacobson, lead researcher and chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak ...
Artificial blood edges closer to reality, spurred by pandemic-driven shortage
While scientists have developed backups for most parts of our bodies—from prosthetic limbs to titanium teeth implants—the production of artificial ...
These health factors best predict whether someone is likely to die from COVID
By looking at patients during the one-week peak of coronavirus in New Orleans, [Dr. Josh] Denson found that the overlap ...
‘From plate to poop’: Why corn survives digestion and what it means for your health
Corn has a way of staying intact from plate to poop. The bright yellow kernels found in our favorite summer ...
Do you get dizzy when standing up? Here’s why
A significant number of falls and fractures, particularly among the elderly, are likely to result from orthostatic hypotension — literally, ...
Meet the scientists who research mosquitoes by feeding them their own blood
The colony was picky — it wouldn’t feed on anesthetized mice or drink from a container covered with a membrane ...
