Our Brains Learn From Mistakes and Can Track Performance

Our ability to learn new things and adjust our approach based on failure and success can be credited to a multi-tasking group of neurons, or messenger cells in our brain, suggest the results of a series of new lab tests. The study findings, published this month in the journal Science, offer fresh insight into how […]

Dr MEGAN ROSSI: The simple quiz to get you on track to a happy gut!

The simple quiz to get you on track to a happy gut! Gut Health Guru Dr MEGAN ROSSI reveals how you can take control of your health You’re told to ‘go with your gut’. You might say you feel ‘sick to your stomach’. Excitement can manifest as ‘butterflies in your tummy’. These age-old sayings stem […]

Abaloparatide Works in ‘Ignored Population’: Men With Osteoporosis

The anabolic osteoporosis treatment abaloparatide (Tymlos, Radius Health) works in men as well as women, new data indicate.   Findings from the Abaloparatide for the Treatment of Men With Osteoporosis (ATOM) randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study were presented last week at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Annual Meeting 2022. Abaloparatide, a subcutaneously […]

Stormi Looks So Grown-Up in These Red Carpet Photos with Kylie Jenner

Time is moving insanely fast, because Stormi took to the red carpet with her mom Kylie Jenner for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards and she looked very grown-up. The four-year-old was pictured with an elegant bun and very chic white dress, hand-in-hand with Jenner. The proud mom posted snapshots on Instagram stories of the duo […]

New model provides a deep physiology-based explanation of how deep brain stimulation works

People with Parkinson's disease and their doctors confront many unknowns, including the answer to exactly how deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves some of the motor symptoms patients experience. In a new study, scientists at Boston University and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT present a detailed model explaining the underlying circuit dynamics, […]

Shanghai targets June COVID lockdown exit as China economy slumps

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily bruising China’s economy, and for the return of more normal life from June 1.Workers in protective suits move equipment for a makeshift nucleic acid testing site to the next residential area […]

Robotic surgery improves patient recovery time

A new study, published in JAMA, has found that robotic surgery reduces the chance of readmission by half (52 percent), and revealed a “striking” four-fold (77 percent) reduction in prevalence of blood clots (deep vein thrombus and pulmonary emboli)—a significant cause of health decline and morbidity—when compared to patients who had open surgery. Patients’ physical […]

Shanghai aims for June 1 return to normal as COVID lockdown batters economy

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks, heavily bruising China’s economy, and for the return of more normal life from June 1.Workers in protective suits move equipment for a makeshift nucleic acid testing site to the next residential area […]