What is Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia. Dementia refers to a set of symptoms, including problems with thinking, reasoning, learning, memory and language. Alzheimer’s is more likely as a person gets older. About one in every 100 people aged 65 have Alzheimer’s and this will rise to 40 out of every […]
As reported in Nature Communications, researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute have developed a novel, patient-derived model of ulcerative colitis, which will help advance studies into new treatments for the chronic inflammatory bowel disease. The team used the model to identify a promising target that could be inhibited to slow disease progression.Ulcerative colitis is […]
Through much of the last year, COVID-19 has propelled many people to accept and follow new patterns of behavior. These include wearing a mask in public, attempting to socially distance and restricting groups to smaller numbers. Developed in what critics say was an absence of strong national leadership, these behaviors have been policed, by and […]
Microsoft on Monday announced that it would be undertaking a strategic partnership with the Alphabet company Verily and with MIT and Harvard’s Broad Institute to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through the Terra platform. Terra is an open-source platform, historically run on Google’s cloud infrastructure, that researchers can use to analyze data in scientific […]
Future parents! Pregnant Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell are anxiously awaiting their first child. Bindi Irwin’s Baby Bump! See the Star’s Pregnancy Progress “All the love in the world,” the Bindi the Jungle Girl alum, 22, captioned a Sunday, January 10, Instagram photo of herself and the Florida native, 24, cradling her stomach. The former […]
No one — and I do mean no one — enjoys having a hangover, but if you’re indulged a bit too much over a weekend, is there a way to shorten the mind-numbingly awful experience? YouTuber Will Tennyson wanted to find out. He tested eight hangover cures recommended by his followers to discover which one […]
My name is Jennifer Hennessey (@jen_henney), and I am 36 years old. I’m a full time mommy, health and fitness coach and Beachbody Coach from Toms River, New Jersey. I did Beachbody workouts and the Ultimate Portion Fix program and lost 120 pounds. My whole life was a battle with my weight. My earliest memory […]
Loose Women: Dr Hilary discusses how to live longer Increase your life expectancy by fasting once a week – this is the recommendation by Jane from Nourish. She said: “Studies show a weekly 18-hour fast – when you eat in a six-hour window, say, between 1pm and 7pm – is linked with improved life expectancy […]
Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children’s disease this year. The drive is the first anti-polio campaign in 2021. The previous campaign took place last August—during a brief decline in fatalities and infections from the coronavirus—and […]
A Big Brother baby! Nicole Franzel and her fiancé, Victor Arroyo, announced on Sunday, January 10, that she’s pregnant with the couple’s first child. ‘Big Brother’ Showmances Through the Years: Where Are They Now? “Nic + Vic = our lil’ side kick,” Franzel, 28, captioned a photo on Instagram that showed the couple in bed, […]
