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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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Will athletes recovered from COVID face career-ending myocarditis or other heart problems?
[For] athletes participating in professional, collegiate, high school or even recreational sports, significant unanswered questions remain about the aftereffects of ...
Gender bias: When people express the same amount of pain, female patients’ experiences are viewed as less intense
In a recent study published by the Journal of Pain, co-authored by Elizabeth Losin, assistant professor of psychology and director of ...
Can you get COVID after vaccination? Only a handful of cases reported so far
Nearly 83 million Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, and it’s unclear just how many ...
Dating apps, gay sex and drug use: Syphilis running rampant after eradication appeared on the horizon
In 2000, syphilis rates were so low that public health officials believed eradication was on the horizon. But the rates ...
Viewpoint: Can we reach a ’sensitive consensus’ on the personal and divisive issue of changing gender identity? Here’s an attempt
If we were going to construct a test-case for how dysfunctional our politics have become, it would be hard to ...
Fighting gut inflammation? Limiting alcohol, sugar, processed foods and animal-based proteins could be key
Reporting their findings in the journal Gut, [a team of researchers at the University of Groningen and University Medical Centre ...
Is it safe to use growth hormones to treat unusually short children? Here are the pros and cons
Experts estimate that 60 percent to 80 percent of children who are short for their age do not have a ...
Only 5 senses? There’s actually 6 more, and here’s how they work
Aristotle’s desperately outdated five sense model may still be popular, but it vastly under-estimates our extraordinary human capacity for sensing ...
1/3 of American adults can now legally smoke marijuana. Here is how weed affects your brain and body, for good and bad
Marijuana can make you feel good. One of weed's active ingredients, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) interacts with the brain's reward system, the ...
Reaching herd immunity may not be the end of COVID danger. We can lose it
Even if the US (or any other country) thinks it has reached herd immunity, global travel could introduce new variants ...
‘You are 3 times more likely to get hit by lightning than die from a COVID vaccine’: Misinformation on shot risk dominates social media
According to recent data from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, you're three times more likely to get struck ...
GE probiotic? CRISPR-edited yeast produce vitamin A precursor beta-carotene
Researchers have genetically engineered a probiotic yeast to produce beta-carotene in the guts of laboratory mice. The advance demonstrates the ...
The incredible shrinking heart: Astronaut Scott Kelly’s heart shrunk by ¼ during his year in space, raising concerns about Mars travel
In a study published on [March 29] in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the largest chamber of the heart ...
Weary of pandemic restrictions? History repeats itself 100 years after pushback against Spanish flu precautions
Picture the United States struggling to deal with a deadly pandemic. State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing ...
Our food has never been safer, so why are we so scared of it?
Why you shouldn't trust your brain ...
Can AI robots replace human therapists?
Websites, smartphone apps and social-media sites are dispensing mental-health advice, often using artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, clinicians and researchers are looking ...
‘Cancer has never been part of your story’: Cautionary tale of a misdiagnosis that wreaked havoc on a patient and his family for 35 years
Ten days [after my brain cancer surgery as a teenager,] they had removed the staples from the left side of ...
Does estrogen deficiency really exist?
The big problem with estrogen deficiency as a symptom or diagnosis is that it is a catchall term that plays ...
Viewpoint: MAGA right targets Dr. Fauci to promote alternative reality about COVID dangers
American citizens have witnessed one of the most dramatic vindications of scientific expertise in our history. We have been healthier ...
50% of COVID sufferers report damaged sense of smell 5 months after recovery
More than 50% of healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 report that their sense of smell has not returned to normal ...
You’ve survived mild COVID? For many, debilitating symptoms kick in weeks or months later
[A] study that analyzed electronic medical records in California found that nearly a third of the people struggling with long ...
‘Broken heart syndrome’: High stress, emotional situations can kill you
[Takotsubo syndrome, or TTS,] is characterised by a sudden temporary weakening of the heart muscles that causes the left ventricle ...
Drugs on the shelf: Repurposing existing therapies to treat COVID
"The advantage of drug repurposing is that that drug is already approved. It's already gone through the regulatory process to ...
Workout junkie? Daily high-intensity workouts might be problematic to your health
Consisting of repeated, brief spurts of hard exercise interspersed with a few minutes of rest, [high-intensity interval training, or] HIIT ...
Opening the door to understanding infertility: Skin cells reprogrammed into a model human embryo
[Scientists have made a] significant breakthrough for the future study of early human development and infertility. To date, the only ...
Do omega-3 fatty acid fish oil supplements lower heart disease risk? Only for people with specific genes, researchers find
[N]ew research from a team led by a University of Georgia scientist indicates that taking fish oil only provides health ...
‘Their lungs are full of bees’: Largely hidden from the public, the last days of a dying COVID patient are excruciating
“Most of what I’m seeing is behind closed curtains, and the general public isn’t seeing this side of it,” says ...
