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This 51-Year-Old Mom Took Her Daughter's Infertility Journey Into Her Own Hands

27.06.2020 Kids Health

After years of struggling with infertility, Breanna Lockwood turned to her family for support and not in the way you might expect. Her mother decided to step in and volunteered to be her daughter’s gestational surrogate. This altruistic act comes after 29-year-old Lockwood struggled through several rounds of in vitro fertilization, surgeries, and miscarriages with no success. According to Good […]

Why Are My Black Kids Fascinated With Everyone's Culture But Their Own?

02.06.2020 Kids Health

When I married my daughters’ dad, a native of Ivory Coast in West Africa, one of my greatest joys came from knowing that my girls (now 8 and 10 years old) would get to learn about African culture. I’m not talking about the stuff you learn in books. I mean the language, the food, and the pride that comes from […]

What It's Like to Give Birth to Triplets on Your Own in a Pandemic

12.05.2020 Kids Health

There were some ways psychologist Annibel Tejada and economist Tendayi Kapfidze could use their professional training to help them prepare for having triplets. He knew they needed life insurance and extra savings; she knew to watch for signs of prenatal anxiety and depression. But then neither of them could have predicted the huge complication thrown into the mix: Tejada gave […]

Kid Party Supplies You'll Want to Steal for Your Own Birthday

02.02.2020 Kids Health

Is it just us, or have kids party supplies gotten beyond chic lately? In fact, 2020’s crop is so cute, we might just start using them for our grown-up events, too. So we rounded up some fun party products that you can reuse for just that: your own birthday party, spring soirée (if the season ever gets here), or even […]

Learning to teach mindfulness to children can help teachers reduce their own stress

26.07.2019 Health Problems

As the use of mindfulness has increased globally, its importance in education has also been recognised. Though it is not yet on any curriculum, it is being used in schools around the world to improve pupils’ well-being, mental health, social and emotional learning, concentration and cognition. Many schools are now enrolling their teachers on mindfulness courses too, so that they […]

Metastatic prostate cancer may have its own biomarker, research finds

02.04.2019 Health Problems

Prostate cancer can grow slowly and pose little threat to patients, or it can metastasize quickly, causing severe pain and death. But as of now, it’s nearly impossible to determine which type of cancer a patient has during the early stages. Now, University at Buffalo researchers and scientists from Moscow State University are collaborating to determine how a biomarker for […]

Stem cells control their own fate, making lab-grown tissues less effective

05.10.2018 Health Problems

Tissues grown in the lab from stem cells may fail to live up their therapeutic promise because the cells choose their own fate. For the last 20 years, scientists have worked to engineer tissues for use in a range of conditions, such as osteoarthritis or heart failure. They do this by placing stem cells – those that can become any […]

Beating cancer at its own game with a Trojan horse telomerase

14.06.2018 Health Problems

Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase that uses an RNA template to synthesize telomeres. These repeat sequences bind special proteins that fold the ends of chromosomes back onto themselves to create a stable cap. When this cap is damaged, the cell often interprets the exposed DNA as a double strand break and attempts to ‘repair’ it. The problem with repairing chromosome […]

Your brain considers other people’s personal space as your own

08.06.2018 Health Problems

Peripersonal space (PPS) is a mental space defined by the brain immediately around body parts used when interacting with people and objects. Recently, researchers have shown that some neurons in the primate brain respond to an infringement of another person’s PPS as if their own space was being encroached upon. To determine how this “PPS remapping” phenomenon affects human behavior, […]

The Cure for Cancer Might Just Be in Your Own Cells

05.06.2018 Family Health

Tori Lee was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), a blood cancer of very a aggressive form, when she started kindergarten in 2008. Immediately after the horrifying news, she started chemotherapy. Sadly, the chemo didn’t work, and the cancer persisted. According to her mother, Dana Lee, Tori underwent chemotherapy for almost two years before relapsing to the cancer after which they signed […]