Don’t mess with Kaavia James during doubles tennis. Her parents, Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, shared a video of the 3-year-old on the court, being poked in the neck by her partner with a racket multiple times. “My hopes and dreams,” they typed in text above her partner, while captioning James: “Monday.” “Mondays amiright!?” the […]
A team of Florida State University College of Medicine researchers has found a link between a specific protein in the brain and increased vulnerability to neurodegeneration for individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Their findings are published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. TLE is the most common form of epilepsy in adults and is often […]
In a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online July 18 in Pediatrics, guidance is presented for the management of visual disorders following a concussion among children. Christina L. Master, M.D., from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and colleagues developed recommendations for screening, identifying, and […]
We all know that eating a healthy, balanced diet is good for our physcial health – but a new study has found it can help us out mentally, too. Specifically, eating more fruit was associated with greater overall mental wellbeing and a reduction in depressive symptoms. The team of researchers from Aston University surveyed more […]
Researchers at Duke University have captured days-long time-lapse videos of young neural cells moving and growing within a novel 3D synthetic biocompatible structure. By literally watching how the cells respond to natural biochemical signals embedded within the material, biomedical engineers hope to develop biogels that can repair and regrow brain tissue after a stroke or […]
Monkeypox is the latest global public health threat to make headlines. Most people who contract the monkeypox virus experience flu-like symptoms and a blistery rash that lasts two to four weeks, but a small percentage of infected people develop sepsis or other severe and potentially fatal complications. It is not uncommon for there to be […]
In a recent study published in Biotech, researchers screened bacterial mucosal vaccine vectors from 2015 to the present to identify a promising candidate to present severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) protein or its fragments. Study: Hacking Commensal Bacteria to Consolidate the Adaptive Mucosal Immune Response in the Gut–Lung Axis: Future Possibilities […]
Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission’s successful challenges to four hospital mergers, the Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years. Although hospital mergers were supposed to improve cost efficiency, experts agree that the creation of huge conglomerates […]
Closing schools in heatwave would be ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’: Leading academy chain’s warning to other headteachers across the country amid fears mercury could hit 43C Some schools are shutting or closing early in response to the extreme heatwave But one provider says closing is irresponsible with poorer families hardest hit Temperatures could soon climb to 40C (104F), smashing […]
The use of precise, accurate language in defining Black communities in health care research must improve in Canada, or there is a risk that health research will fail to meet the needs of Black people in Canada, argues a University of Ottawa professor in a commentary published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). In “Who […]
