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A storm is raging on the parenting site Mom Confessions over a Jan. 20 post by an angry mother on the brink of divorce: “This is an open letter to my MIL who I am absolutely furious with and her selfish, narcissistic attitude…how hard is it to understand the words that I speak when I say Don’t kiss the baby, […]
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I thought I’d heard it all, but the Snake Diet is a new one on me. The diet is a twist on the current popularity of fasting, and its extreme nature is raising a lot of red flags for health professionals like me. Here’s the lowdown on what the plan entails, and why I strongly recommend skipping it. What 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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(HealthDay)—Shoot ’em up video games might be making your children far too comfortable with how they approach and handle real-life firearms, a new study argues. Kids who played a version of Minecraft featuring guns were much more likely to handle a happened-upon but unloaded firearm than kids whose Minecraft game featured swords or no weapons at all, researchers found. Worse, […]
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The most popular YouTube videos on prostate cancer often offer misleading or biased medical information that poses potential health risks to patients, an analysis of the social media platform shows. Led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and its Perlmutter Cancer Center, the study of the 150 most-viewed YouTube videos on the disease found that 77 percent had factual […]
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Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new research published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The longitudinal, prospective, pilot study tracked the contamination rate of ten freshly laundered privacy […]
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Pancreatic cancer often spreads, forming metastases in the liver or lungs. The prognosis is better for patients with metastases in the lungs. However, the cancer cells’ ability to alter their characteristics and shape influences which organ is affected, as a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered. Cells in a tissue or tumor establish contacts with […]
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