https://www.youtube.com/embed/2yTNZoD1RTo Zayn Malik is surprised by how seamlessly he adapted to fatherhood. The singer, 28, and girlfriend Gigi Hadid welcomed their first child, daughter Khai, in September via a natural home birth (during which the singer helped deliver their baby girl!), and speaking with iHeartRadio's Valentine in the Morning on Wednesday, Malik says being a dad […]
Undocumented women in Finland access pregnancy care later than others. Yet, screening of infectious diseases at the early stages of pregnancy would be particularly important to these women, a new study carried out in Helsinki, Finland, shows. Conducted by the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Helsinki, the study on undocumented women’s pregnancy […]
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as President Joe Biden’s health secretary, filling a key position in the administration’s coronavirus response and its ambitious push to lower drug costs, expand insurance coverage, and eliminate racial disparities in medical care. The 50-49 largely party-line vote makes the 63-year-old Becerra the […]
Quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) is a field of biomedical research that aims to model the mechanisms behind disease progression and quantify the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of pharmaceuticals using mathematical computer models. Image Credit: LeoWolfert/Shutterstock.com In silico modeling of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK-PD) is a popular concept in drug design and discovery, and mechanism-based PK-PD modeling […]
Real Water brand alkaline water may be the cause of five cases of acute nonviral hepatitis (resulting in acute liver failure) in infants and children that occurred in November 2020 in the Southern Nevada Health District, and it should not be consumed, served, sold, or used for cooking, health officials say. All five patients were […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The European Commission plans to launch the dispute settlement process in its coronavirus vaccine contract with pharma giant AstraZeneca, EU spokesmen said Thursday. Chief spokesman Eric Mamer said Brussels is waiting for the go ahead from EU member states to write to the firm to demand talks on its alleged failure […]
Hayley Hubbard is happy to leave her breast implants and the anxiety that comes with them behind. The podcast host and wife of Florida Georgia Line's Tyler Hubbard had her breast implants removed in February, and one month into her recovery she wanted to share her experience because "it seems to be a hot topic." […]
Acknowledging that chronic underfunding of public health contributed significantly to the nation's fragmented response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democrats included more than $100 billion in the recently enacted relief package to address urgent needs and enhance future efforts. "The pandemic has given us possibly the best chance we've ever had of getting on the right […]
People in prisons are at an increased risk of COVID-19—with a death rate over three times higher than that of the general population—and should be made a vaccine priority, according to UCL-led team of researchers. In an article published today in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, the research team reveals that there were 121 deaths related […]
Imagine that you are going to conduct research on how different factors affect a child in the womb. Bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol or poor eating habits are factors that may affect the child. However, it would be completely out of the question for a researcher to ask a pregnant woman to expose […]
