With the United States recording its highest daily COVID case load in six months, a top public health official warned Sunday that the country is “failing.” “We should not really have ever got to the place we are,” Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “In that regard, […]
Edith Murway-Traina is many things: a great-great-grandmother, a former dance teacher, and the life of the party. Now, for her 100 birthday on Aug. 8, 2021, Murway-Traina is officially the oldest competitive powerlifter. And yes, her status is even Guinness World Records legit. “Lifting weights upwards of 40-150 pounds, Edith is smashing the competitive powerlifting […]
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It’s a scientific riddle tangled up in a complex web. How do you turn an immune cold cancer into one that responds to immunotherapy? Researchers led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center started with a simple thread: an inhibitor that showed promise against metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer cells. This is the most challenging […]
A one-two punch envisioned by many as a way to improve treatment for some blood cancers may be more challenging to implement than previously expected, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine. The treatment, known as CAR-T cell therapy, uses a patient’s own genetically engineered immune cells to seek out and attack the cancer based on […]
Good news: Scientists won’t have to worry about their mouse sperm vials breaking in transit ever again. Researchers in Japan have developed a way to freeze dry rodent ejaculate between thin plastic sheets and sticky tape it to postcards, with the samples surviving long journeys to produce healthy pups. The team from the University of […]
The use of e-cigarettes (vaping) during pregnancy poses a significant health risk for the offspring, impairing blood vessel function even into adulthood, according to a new study by researchers at West Virginia University's (WVU) School of Medicine. Diminished blood vessel capacity increases the risk of stroke, heart attack and other cardiovascular problems. The research article […]
Scientists at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have identified two proteins that could be used for a potential vaccine against nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi). Working in a mouse model, the investigators found that administering two bacterial adhesive proteins that play a key role in helping the bacteria to latch on to respiratory cells and initiate […]
In a survey-based study of 523 teens in Iceland, girls reported a greater negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being and behavior than boys, and they reported a high level of depressive symptoms. In the JCPP Advances study, higher depressive symptoms were linked with increased passive social media use and decreased connecting with family […]
We already know we need to get up and get active physically. Not exercising is bad for our health, and can lead to bigger problems later on. But what’s stopping us from taking that first step? Here are some of the most common excuses: Excuse 1: “I don’t like exercising.” The usual images of […]
