Alternate nostril breathing, also known in Sanskrit as Nadī Shodhana, is said to help clear your energy channels and bring about inner balance. Nadī refers to the energy that circulates throughout your body, while Shodhana refers to purifying or cleansing. Benefits from the practice include feelings of well-being, improve memory, stress relief, and an increase […]
British Heart Foundation: Understanding blood clots We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Blood clots can stir up serious complications if they […]
The light-guiding properties of spider silk are being used to develop a biosensor that might one day be useful for measuring blood sugar and other biochemical analytes, according to researchers from Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. What to know: Harvested dragline silk from the giant wood spider Nephila pilipes has light-guiding features that […]
Through an international joint research effort involving ProQR Therapeutics of the Netherlands, Université Grenoble Alpes of France, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden, Professor Ji-Soon Song's research team in the Department of Biological Sciences and KAIST Institute for BioCentury of KAIST, established a noble strategy to treat Huntington's disease. The new works showed […]
Welcome to our weekly Move Of The Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part of your workout regime. This week: glute bridge pull-overs. Glute bridges are a great exercise to target […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. New cases of COVID-19 in children were up again after 2 weeks of declines, and preliminary data suggest that hospitalizations may be on the rise as well. There were almost 87,000 new pediatric cases reported during the week of August 18-25, […]
PARIS — The launch of the Europe-wide Cancer Prevention Across Europe campaign (PrEvCan) was announced at the opening session of the 2022 Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). The campaign was initiated and led by the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS), but ESMO will be a key partner in the campaign, along with […]
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown in a new study that genome sequencing is a sensitive first-line test to diagnose individuals with intellectual disability. These findings are published in Genetics in Medicine. Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and/or neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) are currently investigated with several different approaches in clinical genetic diagnostics. In this study […]
Consumers should immediately stop using HECOPRO digital display carbon monoxide (CO) detectors because they can fail to warn about the presence of the dangerous gas, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said. The CPSC issued the warning Thursday after detectors sold on Amazon.com failed tests with a CO concentration of 400 ppm, in violation […]
A new national survey by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center finds many Americans are losing sleep over stress and worry about the current state of the world. After a global pandemic, polarizing political division and more than two years of turbulent events, nearly one in five survey respondents report struggling to fall asleep […]
