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Father-son duos! Josh Peck and John Stamos posed for pics with their baby boys on Sunday, April 7. “Cool dads,” the Drake & Josh alum, 32, captioned the Instagram spread Opens a New Window. . In the first photo, Peck held his 3-month-old son, Max, up above his face, while the Full House alum, 55, did the same with 11-month-old […]
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Researchers at Mount Sinai have developed a novel approach to cancer immunotherapy, injecting immune stimulants directly into a tumor to teach the immune system to destroy it and other tumor cells throughout the body. The “in situ vaccination” worked so well in patients with advanced-stage lymphoma that it is also undergoing trials in breast and head and neck cancer patients, […]
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Spinal cord injury disconnects communication between the brain and the spinal cord, disrupting control over parts of the body. Studying the mechanisms of recovery, Leuven researcher Aya Takeoka (NERF) found that a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below the injury plays a crucial role during early recovery and for maintaining regained motor functions. These new basic research findings […]
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Intimate compatibility can make or break a relationship. No matter how much you gel with someone, a lack of satisfaction in the bedroom can cause you to run into problems. This was the case for Nilufer Atik, who decided to dump her boyfriend due to his lack of sexual prowess. In a candid article, the writer revealed the bizarre moves […]
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“hey guys please don’t talk to us unless u have tattoos we are a cool tattoo family now and we only want to talk to other tattoo families (srry if this seems harsh),” Teigen joked in April 2019 when debuting the tattoos she and husband Legend got that week, hers saying “johnlunamiles” and his “chrissylunamiles” to commemorate their family. In […]
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Data from more than 17,000 teenagers show little evidence of a relationship between screen time and well-being in adolescents. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, casts doubt on the widely accepted notion that spending time online, gaming, or watching TV, especially before bedtime, can damage young people’s mental health. “Implementing best practice […]
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(HealthDay)—For many Americans, the cost of lifesaving insulin is simply too high, leading as many as one in four to ration the drug, experts testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said this week. The meeting focused primarily on defining the problem and exploring potential solutions, such as lowering the list prices of insulin and increasing transparency so […]
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Gordon Ramsay‘s new little bun is done! The 52-year-old chef and television personality and his wife Tana have welcomed their fifth child, a son named Oscar James Ramsay, he announced Thursday on Instagram. Ramsay’s adorable post contained photos of himself and Tana with their newborn baby boy in the hospital, plus a smattering of snapshots of his wife kissing and […]
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Oxytocin is essential in activities of the social brain such as trust and love and in maternal bonding behaviors. It is produced in the brain and secreted into the circulation. Here, by analyzing maternal behaviors of RAGE gene-manipulated mice, oxytocin was found to be transported back to the brain, crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB), an extremely effective barrier, by binding […]
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In a new study that could improve the therapeutic efficacy of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for psychiatric disorders such as depression, a team of scientists shows that, when DBS is applied to a specific brain region, it improves patients’ cognitive control over their behavior by increasing the power of a specific low-frequency brain rhythm in their prefrontal cortex. The findings, published […]
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