https://www.youtube.com/embed//X9O-1q2s5jc In March 2022, NYPD officers found a two-year-old pit bull abandoned in a vacant apartment in New York City. The poor pup, later named Jackson, was extremely underweight, with responders immediately noticing his bony and thin appearance. Once NYPD removed Jackson from the home, he was transported to the ASPCA where our dedicated staff […]
Researchers at the National University in Singapore and colleagues in the US and China undertook a two-decade metabolic analysis of Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reports. They have published their findings in the journal Cell Metabolism. While previous studies of GBD data have focused on the increasing number of deaths and disability-adjusted life years in […]
The UK government’s advisory panel on drugs has rejected a call to ban the sale and possession of nitrous oxide—also known as laughing gas or nos—despite the home secretary’s desire to see the drug banned. In 2021, the then home secretary Priti Patel asked her independent scientific advisers to review the evidence of harm associated […]
A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School illuminates how the brain becomes aware that there is an infection in the body. Studying mice, the team discovered that a small group of neurons in the airway plays a pivotal role in alerting the brain about a flu infection. They also found signs of […]
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent risk factor for heart diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes or heart failure. A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, and Boston Medical Center (BMC) analyzed this relationship in greater detail by examining kidney tissue […]
Zaya Care, a network of pregnancy and postpartum care that takes insurance, will leverage Zocdoc to broaden access to maternity services. WHY IT MATTERS New parents can now find and book video as well as in-person appointments online with participating Zaya Care maternity providers, including pregnancy acupuncturists, maternal mental health therapists, dietitians, pelvic floor therapists […]
EXCLUSIVE: Pictured: Cambodian girl, 11, who died from H5N1 bird flu becoming 2023’s first victim and her father who caught and beat the virus — in zoonotic spillover that caused global alarm Bean Narong died on February 22 after catching Type A HN51 in Roleang Village She was star student who rarely missed class and […]
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On the vast Texas Panhandle, raked by wind and relentless sun, women might drive for hours to reach Haven Health, a clinic in Amarillo. One of more than 3,200 federal family-planning clinics nationwide, Haven serves both English and Spanish speakers, providing contraception, testing for pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and cervical cancer screening, all at […]
Twoportraits of Albert Einstein hang on the walls of a makeshift laboratory on Nairobi’s outskirts, inspiring a pair of self-taught Kenyan innovators who have built a bio-robotic prosthetic arm out of electronic scrap. Cousins Moses Kiuna, 29, and David Gathu, 30, created their first prosthetic arm in 2012, after their neighbor lost a limb in […]
