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Black Children Ask 'Am I Next?' at George Floyd Protests

01.06.2020 Kids Health

As people across the world joined in protests against police brutality over the weekend, demanding justice for George Floyd, many of the headlines focused on violent stand-offs. But there was another story happening at many of the peaceful demonstrations held on Saturday and Sunday: Parents were bringing their children, teaching them a valuable, if scary, lesson about fighting for racial […]

Ashley Iaconetti: I Want to Get Pregnant 'Within the Next 12 Months'

05.02.2020 Kids Health

Ashley Iaconetti has babies on the brain! Six months after her and Jared Haibon’s wedding, the Virginia native detailed her pregnancy plans. “As somebody who will end up trying to get pregnant within the next 12 months … give me some words of encouragement,” the journalist, 31, told Bekah Martinez during the Monday, February 3, episode of her and Ben […]

Second Ebola vaccine to be used in DR Congo next month

13.10.2019 Health Problems

Doctors will use a second Ebola vaccine from November in three eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight the deadly virus, medical officials said Sunday. “It’s time to use the new Ad26-ZEBOV-GP vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Belgian subsidiary,” said Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, who leads the national anti-Ebola operation in the DRC. It will arrive in […]

Next Steps! Priyanka Chopra Says Babies With Nick Jonas Is on 'To-Do List'

07.09.2019 Kids Health

What’s next for Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas? Starting a family, if all goes according to plan! “Buying a home and having a baby are on my to-do list,” the actress, 37, revealed in her Vogue India September cover story, published on Friday, September 6. “For me, home is wherever I’m happy, as long as I have the people I love […]

Obesity and alcohol responsible for nearly 30,000 cases of breast cancers in the next decade

28.03.2019 Health Problems

Maintaining a healthy weight and not consuming alcohol regularly could help prevent thousands of breast cancer cases, a new big data study by UNSW Sydney researchers has found. The findings could help inform future cancer control strategies. The large collaborative study led by UNSW’s Centre for Big Data Research in Health was published in the International Journal of Cancer. It […]

Does that medicine work for women? Why signing up for a medical study could be your next feminist move

13.02.2019 Health Problems

You’ve marched in the Women’s March, cheered for women in Congress, grappled with the wide-ranging implications of the MeToo movement, talked with your kids (of both genders) about sexual harassment. Wait—did you forget to sign up for a medical study? In the new pantheon of Women’s Causes We Care About, inclusion in medical research has often ranked somewhere below concern […]

AI could predict cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease in the next five years

05.10.2018 Health Problems

A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Mallar Chakravarty, a computational neuroscientist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, and his colleagues from the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, designed an algorithm that learns signatures from […]

Nipah: Could a little-known virus become the next global pandemic?

28.05.2018 Health Problems

A little-known virus discovered 20 years ago could become the next global pandemic. A recent outbreak in South India has renewed interest in Nipah virus, a disease that generally spreads from bats or pigs to humans and kills nearly three-quarters of those infected. It has no vaccine and no cure. The virus has so far killed 11 in the current […]