How often do you change your underwear? While we’d hope most of you would say every day, a recent survey has revealed that a concerning number of women fail to do so. A poll of more than 1,000 women by skincare platform The Derm Review found that 21 percent wear their underwear for 'multiple days'. […]
Years to decades after breast tumors have been removed, cancer may return or metastasize in other organs. Bone is frequently affected by metastasis and in the current study published in the journal Cancer Discovery, a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine shows in an animal model that the initiation of bone metastasis […]
Teaching patients to observe and document how they feel after eating certain foods can be a highly effective way to encourage positive lifestyle changes, according to Rutgers researchers. To measure the effectiveness of behavioral change programs on patient well-being, students from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers partnered with Eating for Your Health, […]
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A stressful marriage may negatively impact heart attack recovery. Marital stress among younger adults (ages 18–55 years) was linked to worse recovery after a heart attack. That negative impact did not change substantially after considering demographics and socioeconomic factors, such as education, employment, income and health insurance status, according to preliminary research to be presented […]
Shanghai Disney Resort abruptly shut its doors Monday as Chinese authorities imposed a snap lockdown, trapping guests who are not permitted to leave until they test negative for COVID-19. China is the last major economy wedded to a zero-COVID policy, with authorities brandishing snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines in an effort to stamp […]
In a recent study published in the Journal of Infection, researchers used laboratory diagnostic testing data of monkeypox cases. They performed mathematical modeling to predict how long monkeypox viral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) remains detectable in different body fluid samples. Study: Persistence of monkeypox virus DNA in clinical specimens. Image Credit: MIA Studio/Shutterstock Background The monkeypox […]
The dentate gyrus (DG) is a region of the mammalian brain known to support the encoding of new memories. This brain region is part of the hippocampal formation, a set of brain regions involved in vital memory functions. Past neuroscience studies showed that throughout a mammal’s lifespan, the DG produces cells that regulate the flow […]
Actors may suppress their core sense of self when acting, as they immerse themselves in a new role, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The research, published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, suggests that when actors take on a new character, they may be able to suppress their everyday self—implying that theater training may […]
Do many Swedes obtain antibiotics without a prescription, and what drives their behavior when this happens? The answers are important when it comes to dealing with antibiotic resistance, which is a serious challenge for the entire health care sector. Practical philosophers and political scientists at the University of Gothenburg have carried out a large study […]
