Would YOU know how to restart a heart? DR MICHAEL MOSLEY says he still gets the shivers thinking about the young woman whose life he helped save – so what if he hadn’t known CPR? Unlike most of Britain, I am not much of a football fan, but the shocking events of last Saturday night, […]
Transparency is key. Kevin Hart has spoken with his children about his 2017 cheating scandal. Celebrity Couples Who Stayed Together After Cheating Scandals “You have to talk to your kids about it because it’s going to come out,” the actor, 41, told Romper in a Wednesday, March 16, interview. “And some of them are cool […]
President Joe Biden announced a month-long push in June for 70% of U.S. adults to be vaccinated with at least one shot by July 4. Right now, we’re only at about 64 percent of people age 18 and older. Some of that is access. But some is still vaccine hesitancy. Who’s holding out? According to […]
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data—which genes are “on” or “off” during infection—to look for shared patterns in patients with past pandemic viral infections, including SARS, MERS and swine flu. Two telltale signatures emerged from the study, […]
A new Cleveland Clinic-led study has identified mechanisms by which COVID-19 can lead to Alzheimer’s disease-like dementia. The findings, published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, indicate an overlap between COVID-19 and brain changes common in Alzheimer’s, and may help inform risk management and therapeutic strategies for COVID-19-associated cognitive impairment. Reports of neurological complications in COVID-19 […]
Keeping your brain sharp may be further down your list of priorities than you care to admit, but a common pastime you might already be doing on a regular basis helps strengthen this muscle. Of course, feeling your best mentally takes time and commitment. If you’re reading on a daily basis, you’re likely exercising your […]
If all the SARS-CoV-2 particles currently circulating in humans around the globe were gathered together into one place, they would weigh somewhere between the weight of an apple and that of a young toddler, according to a new study. A group of researchers recently calculated that each infected individual carries about 10 billion to 100 […]
Radical new treatment involving a sonic blast could benefit up to 75,000 Britons who suffer from sky-high blood pressure, say researchers The one-off therapy involves blasting nerves in the kidneys with sound waves Over a third of patients are able to stop taking blood pressure tablets afterwards Researchers estimate up to 75,000 in UK could […]
Treating patients with acute respiratory failure is a constant challenge in intensive care medicine. In most cases, the underlying cause is lung inflammation triggered by a bacterial infection or—more rarely, despite being frequently observed at present due to the corona pandemic—a viral infection. During the inflammation, cells of the immune system—the white blood cells—migrate to […]
A social media campaign could help to advertise the positives of COVID-19 vaccination and counter the negative posts and comments which are putting Australia’s vaccination program at risk, a UNSW researcher says. ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in UNSW Science’s School of Psychology, Dr. Kate Faasse says social media is exaggerating COVID vaccine side […]
