With educators and child care staff eligible to be vaccinated in Texas starting Friday, some counties in the state are working to ensure shots reach teachers who need it most. The Texas health department announced that teachers would be eligible for vaccination on Wednesday, the day after President Joe Biden directed states to prioritize educators […]
You know about love languages, you know about zodiac signs. But one personality type/social behavior bucket you might not be familiar yet with is attachment styles. Whereas love languages and zodiac signs can feel woo-woo for some, attachment-based therapy is a popular form of psychological counseling rooted in decades of study and research. Neat, right? […]
In 1993, scientists discovered that a single mutated gene, HTT, caused Huntington’s disease, raising high hopes for a quick cure. Yet today, there’s still no approved treatment. One difficulty has been a limited understanding of how the mutant huntingtin protein sets off brain cell death, says neuroscientist Srinivasa Subramaniam, Ph.D., of Scripps Research, Florida. In […]
Being able to make blind people see again sounds like the stuff of miracles or even science fiction. And it has always been one of the biggest challenges for scientists. Diego Ghezzi, who holds the Medtronic Chair in Neuroengineering (LNE) at EPFL's School of Engineering, has made this issue a research focus. Since 2015, he […]
Studies of the microbiome in the human gut focus mainly on bacteria. Other microbes that are also present in the gut—viruses, protists, archaea and fungi—have been largely overlooked. New research in mice now points to a significant role for fungi in the intestine—the communities of molds and yeasts known as the mycobiome—that are the active […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 200,000 Russians diagnosed with COVID-19 have died since the pandemic began last April, Russia’s Rosstat statistics agency said on Friday, more than double the widely cited figure used by the government’s coronavirus task force.FILE PHOTO: A medical specialist works at the Krylatskoye Ice Palace, which was converted into a temporary […]
A physician who was removed from her faculty position at Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine (KPSOM) shortly after leading a classroom discussion about racism in medicine last summer has now sued the school for discrimination. Dr Aysha Khoury Aysha Khoury, MD, MPH, a Black female physician, was suspended from teaching at the medical school on […]
TMI! Nikki Bella exclusively told Us Weekly about her and Artem Chigvintsev’s postpartum sex life on Thursday, March 4. Nikki Bella and More Celeb Parents Get Real About Postpartum Sex The Total Bellas star, 37, and the Dancing With the Stars pro, 38, were initially “hot and heavy” after their 7-month-old son Matteo’s birth — […]
Using genetic engineering, researchers at UT Southwestern and Indiana University have reprogrammed scar-forming cells in mouse spinal cords to create new nerve cells, spurring recovery after spinal cord injury. The findings, published online today in Cell Stem Cell, could offer hope for the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who suffer a spinal cord injury […]
Tim Dupin thought — or at least hoped — that Missouri firefighters, paramedics and other emergency medical services personnel would be among the first to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. After months of feeling overlooked by elected leaders in the distribution of safety equipment and other resources, surely, Dupin thought, their role on the front […]
