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Specialist technique used to study drugs completed for first time during Ebola outbreak

15.01.2020 Health Problems

A specialist technique used to study drugs has been completed for the first time during an outbreak of Ebola virus disease. The study published today in eBiomedicine was a collaboration of researchers from Sierra Leone and the University’s of Glasgow, Oxford, Cambridge and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. It used pharmacokinetics—the measurement of the change in drug concentration in […]

Two cancer-causing genes work together to promote metastasis

14.01.2020 Health Problems

Cancer-promoting genes MYC and TWIST1 co-opt immune system cells to enable cancer cells to spread, but blocking a key step in this process can help prevent the disease from developing. These findings, published today in eLife, may help clinicians to identify cancer patients at risk of metastasis, a process where cancer cells spread to other parts of the body. They […]

Books Kids & Adults Will Love To Read On MLK Day

14.01.2020 Kids Health

Many American kids experience Martin Luther King Jr Day the same way: A lesson on the “I have a dream” speech and a day off school. Like with the upcoming Black History Month, its an event non-Black parents, and especially white parents, can ignore or pay lip service to. A common piece of advice for white parents wanting to do […]

Calculated surprise leads to groundbreaking discovery in cognitive control research

14.01.2020 Health Problems

Humans control their behavior in numerous ways, from stopping the urge pick at a scab to resisting the impulse to eat an entire box of chocolates. Suppressing undesired behavior, referred to as “cognitive control,” traditionally has been linked to the functioning of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) in the front of the brain. Activity in dACC is observed across […]

Buybuy Baby's First-Ever Sale Event is Today — Here's What to Buy

10.01.2020 Kids Health

The moment every parent dreams of is finally here! Buybuy Baby unveiled their first-ever big-deal sale today. We can already hear moms rushing to the checkout aisle, screaming in glee. And who could blame them? Their storewide exclusive savings and never-before-seen offers on all the best baby brands like UPPAbaby®, Chicco®, DockATot®, The Honest Company, BRITAX®, Graco® and many more […]

Experts Reveal the Ways to Treat Your Seasonal Affective Disorder

10.01.2020 Health Problems

Most people anticipate the coming of the Holiday Season. It’s the perfect time to be reunited with our family and spend our precious time building beautiful memories with them. It’s also the perfect time where we get to relax as the daylight savings time ends and we enter the cold Winter season. As our days get shorter and the nights […]

The Duggars: A Comprehensive Guide to the Famous Family

09.01.2020 Kids Health

Big brood! When it comes to the Duggars, the more members, the merrier — which is why some fans have a hard time keeping track of the famous family. After tying the knot in July 1984, Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar (née Ruark) welcomed a total of 19 children, including two sets of twins, and the couple bestowed all of […]

The best way to ditch bad habits: What science can teach us

03.01.2020 Health Problems

It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up (cigarettes, alcohol, junk food). Unfortunately, the odds of sticking with new year resolutions are not good. Come February, 80 percent of people will have given up giving up. So what can we learn from the 20 percent […]

Exposure to pyrethroid insecticides linked to mortality

31.12.2019 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Environmental exposure to pyrethroid insecticides is associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, according to a study published online Dec. 30 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Wei Bao, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and colleagues examined the correlation of pyrethroid exposure with all-cause and cause-specific mortality using data from 2,116 adults aged […]

Breaking the dogma: Key cell death regulator has more than one way to get the job done

24.12.2019 Health Problems

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a new way that the molecule RIPK1 leads to cell death in infected, damaged or unwanted cells showing that more than one mechanism can trigger the process. The findings appeared online today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. “Our findings break the existing dogma that RIPK1 kinase activity is required for […]

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