Advertising on TV and online, being offered free tobacco products and exposure to smoking in public places are the biggest drivers of tobacco use among teens in South Asia, a new study suggests. The research, led by the University of York, looked at data from Global Youth Tobacco survey on the tobacco use of just […]
Katy Perry is getting some serious mom support from Miranda Kerr as she heads back to work six weeks after giving birth to daughter Daisy Dove. Kerr rained praise upon her ex Orlando Bloom's fiancée in a comment on Perry's Thursday Instagram post, in which the pop star celebrated returning to the set of American […]
If you ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, they’ll often tell you with an accompanying eye roll, “He’s such a baby.” “He’s extra whiny.” Or “he exaggerates so much.” But there may be a biological explanation for this behavior. Dubbed the “man flu,” this phenomenon has […]
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, NAFLD, affects nearly one in four adults in Europe and the U.S. Earlier research has demonstrated an increased risk of death in patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Massachusetts General Hospital in the U.S. show that mortality increases with disease severity, […]
Researchers at Kumamoto University, Japan, have generated mice lacking the estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) gene, both fiber-specific and muscle stem cell-specific, which resulted in abnormalities in the growth and regeneration of skeletal muscle in female mice. This was not observed in male mice that lacked the ERβ gene, suggesting that estrogen and its downstream signals […]
Athletes increasingly relying on a coach over the course of a season may be a sign that they aren’t progressing in their development, according to new research from Binghamton University. On the other hand, inspirational coaches will find that their athletes will become less reliant on them over time. “Being increasingly needed by your athletes […]
I blame my arthritis on bunions: More than 15 million of us have them and, as actress Terri Dwyer found, delaying surgery can have agonising effect At times the pain was so bad that it kept actress and TV presenter Terri Dwyer awake at night. Hers isn’t the kind of pain you might associate with […]
A new study points out that antibiotics can be effective in treating appendicitis. The researchers said that in some cases the antibiotics can eliminate the need for surgery. Experts say antibiotics have been used for years to treat some cases of appendicitis, but many physicians still prefer surgery due to the complications that can occur […]
Rapper Cardi B turned 28 over the weekend, and she celebrated with a lavish Las Vegas party held on Saturday night—but the event (and the photos from it) has drawn some major criticism from fans and other people online for the lack of social distancing and mask-wearing. Cardi shared a photo from the event on […]
Fabolous is a father once more. The 42-year-old rapper and his girlfriend, Love & Hip Hop: New York alum Emily Bustamante, welcomed their third child together and first daughter on Saturday, Oct. 10, Bustamante shared Sunday on her Instagram Story. First posting a video of her hospital bracelet alongside the date "10/10," the new mother of […]
