Long Covid: Dr Sara Kayat discusses impact on children 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 A new study has unearthed three […]
If there’s one thing we know from talking about our collective relationship between food and body image around here is that food is deeply personal. Everyone’s relationship to it is unique and different families and different individuals will have their own approach. And sometimes there will be friction along the way. One young teen redditor […]
More research suggests that eating a diet high in ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) is harmful for the aging brain. Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), which included participants aged 35 and older, showed that higher intake of UPF was significantly associated with a faster rate of decline in both executive and global […]
Perfectionist traits—higher self-criticism, and unrealistic standards leading to isolation—are associated with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to the first study directly comparing patients with AUD to a healthy control group. Perfectionist people strive for unrealistic performance standards and are prone to self-criticism. These goals generate feelings of failure, and—if they can’t attain the standards […]
As the idea of growing tiny human organs in lab dishes has moved in recent years from futuristic science fiction to actual bioscientific reality, the usefulness of organoids as a research tool for studying the digestive system swiftly encountered a bottleneck — these valuable tissues are quite difficult to make. Even with highly trained teams […]
Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device have a lower chance of actually getting that operation than white patients, or male patients, a new study finds. The differences for Black patients cropped up mainly in patients whose chances of benefiting from a […]
Hospital patients who develop infections where 10% of sufferers die will be offered double the traditional course of antibiotics in a new trial. Patients with serious abdominal infections are usually given a two-week course, but often this is unsuccessful. Now, researchers at the University of Leeds and the University of York are trialing a month-long […]
GMB: George Alagiah on getting through mild case of COVID-19 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 After returning to the BBC […]
Research led by Muhammad Riaz, Ph.D., Jinkyu Park, Ph.D., and Lorenzo Sewanan, MD, Ph.D., from the Qyang and Campbell laboratories at Yale, provides a mechanism to identify abnormalities linked with a hereditary cardiac condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), in which walls of the left ventricle become abnormally thick and often stiff. The findings appear in the […]
Do you feel stuck in the same repetitive cycle, day in and day out? Maybe you implemented a routine to give you a sense of purpose, but soon found the rigid rules began to control and consume your daily life. Or maybe you are stuck in a rut with no routine and find yourself unmotivated […]
