Health & Medicine
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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Medieval medicine resurrected: Could a 1,000 year old potion help fight bacterial infections?
Garlic, onion, wine, and a dash of bovine bile. It’s a veritable witch’s brew, but as a new Scientific Reports paper shows, this ...
‘Looks can be deceiving’: People with anorexia don’t always look scrawny or malnourished
[A]dolescents and young adults with disordered eating habits or outright eating disorders often go unrecognized by both parents and physicians ...
Are children as vulnerable to COVID as adults? Latest research says ‘yes’
Several studies and reports published in recent weeks found coronavirus infections among children of all ages at places ranging from ...
Organic food healthier? Nutritionist explains what the media get wrong time and again
For years, the organic versus conventional argument has fueled twitter wars, marketing schemes, and a hell of a lot of ...
12 lifestyle changes to cut risk from dementia
[A major] review identified the biggest known risk factors for dementia as smoking, excess alcohol consumption, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, head injury, depression, hearing loss and exposure to air ...
Infographic: We know breastfeeding helps children. Now we know it helps mothers too
When a woman becomes pregnant, her risk of type 2 diabetes increases for the rest of her life, perhaps because ...
Sugar and processed foods undermine body’s response to exercise
[A] study, which involved rodents and people, suggests that eating a diet high in sugar and processed foods, which may ...
Older coronavirus victims 350 percent likelier to experience symptoms than 10-19 year olds
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a markedly low proportion of cases among children. Age disparities in observed cases could be ...
97,000 school-age children tested positive for COVID-19 in late July — most had no or mild symptoms
Pictures of packed school hallways in Georgia and news of positive tests on the first day of classes in Indiana ...
Zoanthropy: The curious case of the woman who believes she is a chicken
[A] 54-year-old woman, who had no history of drug or alcohol abuse, was found by her brother in her garden ...
How to make $2000: Volunteer to get a COVID-19 test vaccine
During the next two months, vaccine makers hope to recruit 60,000 Americans to roll up their sleeves to test the ...
Vaccines will be in short supply when developed. Here’s a way to prioritize who gets one
A preliminary plan devised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this spring gives priority to health care workers, then ...
COVID-19 conspiracy theories give people the feeling of being in control
A few weeks ago, I took an uncomfortable trip down the rabbit hole of Covid-19 conspiracy theory videos. As a newly ...
Another pandemic coming? Expanding land use boosts exposure to diverse zoonotic diseases, study finds
Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk ...
Covid-19 targets poor service workers in densely populated enclaves. Can we turn that around?
California is a large and complex state, and our coronavirus challenge, too, is anything but straightforward. In fact, the best way to ...
How church during COVID turned deadly: 91 infected, 2 dead in Ohio after attending a service
Gov. Mike DeWine said in a press briefing [August 4] that [a] worshiper attended a service at an undisclosed church ...
‘Immunological dark matter’: Is this why some people have a pre-existing immunity to COVID-19?
More than half a million people have died from COVID-19 globally. It is a major tragedy, but perhaps not on the ...
How COVID-19 kills
Nine of every 10 students worldwide shut out of their schools at one point. More than 7 million flights grounded ...
Video: Death by COVID: The projected grim toll in historical context
The latest statistics, as of July 10, show COVID-19-related deaths in U.S. are just under 1,000 per day nationally, which is ...
In effort to block Philippines’ GMO Golden Rice, activists falsely link nutrition-enhanced staple to COVID
Anti-biotech groups in the Philippines are trying to link the COVID-19 pandemic to Golden Rice as part of a week-long ...
Climate change and urbanization blamed for sharp increase in human-biting disease-carrying mosquitoes
[Aedes aegypti] is responsible for spreading Zika, dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya in various regions around the world. Although A. aegypti currently ...
Why do some children who eat enough calories still end up stunted?
Even when given enough to eat, [malnourished children] end up shorter than their peers and are saddled with cognitive deficits, ...
Vindication? As global coronavirus hot spots surge, Sweden’s case load plunges
Sweden’s latest Covid-19 figures suggest it’s rapidly bringing the virus under control. “That Sweden has come down to these levels ...
‘Tantalizing solutions’: How we are developing the next generation of cancer drugs
Cancer treatments have always been linked to a specific part of the body — these drugs for breast cancer, and ...
When it comes to medicine, how we define slippery concepts like race, gender and age matters
The foundation of medical research, which is considered the gold standard, is the Randomized Controlled Trial when individuals are matched ...
Billions of people rely on rice for sustenance. Genetic engineering makes it more nutritious
Rice is a key source of carbohydrate and B vitamins. However, rice consumption as a major food is not sufficient ...
CDC: US could prevent top-thirds of maternal deaths
[A] report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [says] the United States could prevent two-thirds of maternal deaths ...
