The medication naloxone is so effective at saving the lives of opioid overdose victims that some people worry that it might make drug users think heroin and related drugs are no longer risky. But a new study suggests that is not the case. Increased access to naloxone didn’t lead Americans, even drug users, to think […]
A group of researchers has created nanomachines that detect MMPs (matrix metalloproteinases), a principal enzyme for cancer cells to invade normal tissue, and deliver anticancer drugs according to an announcement in the journal Advanced Materials . As it can target highly invasive cancer cells, it is expected to inhibit cancer metastasis and recurrence. Malignant tumors […]
The anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) monoclonal antibody erenumab (Aimovig) helps patients with chronic migraine convert to an episodic pattern soon after treatment initiation, new research suggests. In an open-label study, 71% of patients with chronic migraine treated for 1 year converted to episodic migraine. “Erenumab is related to a remarkably high percentage of pattern reversal […]
Women with a history of migraine are more likely to experience severe or very severe hot flashes than women without migraines, according to research presented Sept. 24 at the hybrid annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society. An estimated 1 in 5 women experience migraine, and women tend to have greater migraine symptoms and […]
(HealthDay)—Emotional changes in the run-up to menopause can sometimes lead to depression. It can be important to see a doctor to help determine whether you’re just feeling stressed or “blue”—or whether you might have clinical or major depression, a condition associated with a chemical imbalance in the brain. Changing hormones during perimenopause—the time when a […]
Illinois health care workers and educators from kindergarten through college will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday in announcing new safety protocols that also include a fresh statewide mandate for masks to be worn indoors. The mandates, which overlap in several places with existing […]
You might hear the phrase, “If he wanted to, he would,” being uttered on TikTok as you scroll through the myriad of videos the algorithm has lined up for you, and on the surface of it, it might appear to be some pretty sound advice. The phrase suggests that if a romantic prospect wanted to take […]
In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang’s group from Nanjing University presents a rather striking finding that four circulating miRNAs, which are high in healthy people and much lower in older people and diabetic patients, could effectively inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication by directly targeting the S protein. Serum exosomes containing these miRNAs from young people could strongly […]
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 […]
Planning ahead — just in case! Kailyn Lowry opened up about her struggle with polycystic ovary syndrome and her plans to freeze her eggs during part one of the Teen Mom 2 reunion on Tuesday, July 27. “I was doing [egg harvesting] first, and I’m glad I started doing it, because then I found out […]
