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Not alone! Chrissy Teigen got real with her Twitter followers about how she balances her career and motherhood. “Girl I have HELP and a half,” the Bring the Funny judge, 33, tweeted on Tuesday, September 3. “That’s it. There is no way I could have done it without it. I’m so lucky to have it and I don’t know how […]
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If you follow Shawn Johnson East on social media (and if you don’t, you should), you know the Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars champ and her husband, pro football player Andrew East, have been no holds barred about her pregnancy. From sharing the heartbreak of miscarriage to her pregnancy announcement to fears of complications and even her […]
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other viruses now appear to be the main causes of severe childhood pneumonia in low- and middle-income countries, highlighting the need for vaccines against these pathogens, according to a study from a consortium of scientists from around the world, led by a team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Pneumonia is the […]
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So you're easing into a sex session with your partner and even though you're totally up for it, things are a little dry down below. (Hey, it happens.) You don't have any lubricant on hand, so you work up a little spit and use it as your makeshift lube. Or you have your partner go down on you and use their […]
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A shortened 15-second application time and a simpler three-step technique for use of alcohol-based hand rub is as effective in reducing bacteria as the 30-second application and six-step technique recommended by WHO, and could improve hand hygiene compliance. The new research is being presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 […]
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In this together! Jessica Simpson and her husband, Eric Johnson, welcomed their third child, Birdie, on March 19, and parenthood has been a “totally different experience” for the couple this time around, a source says exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly. The pair, who tied the knot in 2014, already share daughter, Maxwell, 6, and son, Ace, 5. […]
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Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, led by prostate cancer treatment pioneer Dr. Eric Walser, have shown that selectively destroying cancerous prostate tissue is as effective as complete prostate removal or radiation therapy while preserving more sexual and urinary function than the other treatments. This study is currently available in Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. […]
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Like a well-guarded fortress, the human brain attacks intruders on sight. Foreign objects, including neural probes used to study and treat the brain, do not last long. But now, researchers have designed a probe that looks, acts, and feels so much like a real neuron that the brain cannot identify the imposters. According to Charles M. Lieber, this breakthrough “literally […]
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We work in a world of increasing ambiguity. Over the past few decades technological change and globalisation have fundamentally changed the nature of the “average” job. There is greater competition and higher expectations. We face more situations, projects, tasks or objectives that are new, different, unclear or inexact. To investigate whether Australian workers are equipped to handle this growing ambiguity […]
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People who are mentally ill are 2.4 times more likely than claimants with non-psychiatric conditions to lose their existing benefit following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) eligibility assessment, research has found. Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry Open, the study from the University of York analysed government data of claimants moving from an existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) entitlement […]
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