If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Chelsea Clinton is angry about how people seem to be ignoring the overwhelming evidence that maternal mortality rates have been increasing heavily in the US, and how she wants this to change. In a […]
Bizarre cases of people whose accents suddenly changed over night
From the English pub worker who woke up sounding Welsh to the American ex-beauty queen who ended up talking like a ‘spice girl’: Bizarre cases of people whose accents suddenly changed MailOnline have collated whose accents change over night due to rare condition Experiences include an Essex girl waking up with four European accents Do […]
Vanessa Bryant & Her 3 Daughters Look As Happy As Can Be in This Rare Vacay Photo
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Vanessa Bryant and her daughters are the happiest we’ve seen them in a long time! On July 14, Vanessa shared a seriously sweet snapshot of her, Natalia Bryant, Bianka Bryant, and Capri Bryant on […]
Bereaved families of teens call for MDMA to be made legal
Our teens died from overdosing on ketamine and ecstasy – but we want drugs to be legalised in Britain Transform Drug Policy Foundation is campaigning for UK drug policy reform Regulating drug content would reduce adverse reaction deaths, they argue Latest stats show 4,517 deaths related to drug use in UK were recorded in 2020 […]
Woman taken to hospital for UTI told she only had months to live due to dementia
Alzheimers Research UK explain 'what is dementia?' Despite having had three strokes in her lifetime, Eileen “was all right in herself”. Granddaughter Mandy described her nan, 87, as “a good listener” who was “always there for people” and “loved to laugh”. Eileen’s strokes had caused some mobility issues and made her forget the odd word […]
Shawn Johnson Is Not Here for the Rude Speculation Fans Are Making About Her Pregnant Belly: ‘Don’t Go There'
ICYMI: Shawn Johnson is pregnant with baby number 3! *Holds for the same round of applause she got when she when gold at the 2008 Olympics.* She announced her pregnancy earlier this week on Instagram. In the first photo she’s sitting in front of the Olympic rings at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece. “Swipe […]
AI-powered drug discovery offers hope for cystinosis patients
Reviewers’ Notes Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in drug discovery. Advances in the use of Big Data, learning algorithms and powerful computers have now enabled researchers at the University of Zurich (UZH) to better understand a serious metabolic disease. Cystinosis is a rare lyosomal storage disorder affecting around 1 in 100,000 to 200,000 newborns […]
UW Medicine surgeons saved a patient with a dual-organ transplant
Reviewers’ Notes Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In this innovative case, the organ recipient's own healthy liver was transplanted, domino-like, into a second patient […]
AI Can Help Triage Patients With Respiratory Symptoms
Around 20% of visits to primary care physicians (PCPs) are made by patients with symptoms that resolve spontaneously, and as much as 72% of visits are prompted by acute respiratory symptoms. Excessive and improper use of diagnostic tests is a well-known problem in primary care that increases random outcomes. The same can be said for […]
Neighborhood racial segregation linked to shorter life spans
Black residents living in highly segregated neighborhoods have significantly shortened life expectancies, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published July 14 in JAMA Health Forum. Compared to residents living in less segregated predominantly white neighborhoods, life expectancies of people in highly segregated areas are four years shorter on average, the study found. By pinpointing significant […]