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Mark Wahlberg Opens Up About Fitness and Aging: ‘My Biological Clock Is Ticking’

20.11.2019 Kids Health

Mark Wahlberg may feel like he’s in a fight against time, but if the man famous for his intense workout routine goes down, he’ll go down swinging. “I won’t lie — the biological clock is ticking,” Wahlberg, 48, admitted in the December issue of Men’s Journal, on newsstands November 22. The Oscar nominee is busy preparing for a big-screen adaptation […]

Cynthia Nixon Opens Up About Her Transgender Son

06.05.2019 Kids Health

Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner (and former New York candidate for governor) Cynthia Nixon talked to Us Weekly about her transgender son, Seph, 22, at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 29. Nixon was at the festival for the world premiere of her project Stray Dolls when she was asked about Samuel Joseph Mozes (Seph’s full name). “I’m very […]

Making the invisible visible: New method opens unexplored realms for liquid biopsies

03.05.2019 Health Problems

Advancing technology is allowing scientists increasingly to search for tiny signs of cancer and other health issues in samples of patients’ blood and urine. These “liquid biopsies” are less invasive than a traditional biopsy, and can provide information about what’s happening throughout the body instead of just at a single site. Now researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer […]

Ronda Rousey Opens Up About ‘Trying to Start a Family’

29.04.2019 Kids Health

Next stop: pregnancy! Ronda Rousey and her husband, Travis Browne, got married in 2017 and are now trying to conceive their first child. “With me and my husband trying to start a family, we are very fortunate to be in a very secure position now,” the wrestler, 32, told Us Weekly exclusively at the LA Family Housing LAFH Awards & […]

Pink Opens Up About Anxiety and Suicide: ‘I Fully Understand That’

26.04.2019 Kids Health

Singer Pink Opens a New Window. has always been a proponent of everyone speaking their minds Opens a New Window. — and she wants the world to know that’s especially true for conversations about mental health, depression, anxiety and suicide. “I’m hopeful that the taboo of it is all going away, because more and more people are talking about it,” […]

News anchor opens up to viewers about dad’s stroke

21.12.2018 Health Problems

Brooke Lennington’s phone buzzed late one night in 2016, a week before Thanksgiving. Her younger brother, Hunter, was calling, frantically saying a nurse at a hospital had called about their father. Hunter, a teenager, had been too overwhelmed to learn more. Brooke called and learned that then-50-year-old Rich Lennington had suffered a stroke. She asked how serious it was. “Honey, […]

Understanding Down syndrome opens door to Alzheimer’s prevention trials

29.11.2018 Health Problems

Clinical trials for preventing Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome may soon be possible thanks to new research from King’s College London. The researchers found changes in memory and attention are the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s in Down syndrome, and these changes start in the early 40s. People with Down syndrome have an extremely high risk of developing Alzheimer’s […]

Index of tumor cells opens a new perspective to prevent cancer progression

09.04.2018 Health Problems

Researchers from the School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto (FMRP), at the University of São Paulo (USP), in collaboration with international groups, have developed indices that provide information about the prognosis of cancers, aid in the choice of the most appropriate therapy and identify potential targets for the development of new drugs. Their paper, titled “Machine Learning Identity Stemness Features […]