The “core” refers to the main muscles in the trunk of the body. They help protect the spine, provide stability, and increase strength. Strengthening the core muscles can improve athletic performance, help prevent injuries, and improve posture. Having a strong, well-trained core can also help create an athletic-looking physique if a person combines a focus...
Hyperthyroidism involves the thyroid gland producing too much of the thyroid hormones. This overproduction can have different effects in females and males. A female with hyperthyroidism may have symptoms involving menstruation and pregnancy, while males may experience sexual dysfunction, for example. Hyperthyroidism can also cause a wide range of universal symptoms. In this article, we describe the...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has found evidence that suggests smart watches can detect COVID-19 symptoms before a person has become aware that they are infected. On their website, the team at Mount Sinai describes testing 297...
UNIVERSITY OF TURKU A new study conducted at the University of Turku, Finland, shows that patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder have an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease later in life. The increased risk may be due to alterations in the brain’s dopamine system caused by dopamine receptor antagonists or neurobiological effects of schizophrenia. The...
Resilience, meaning the ability to recover from wounds, infection, and other forms of damage, is more or less the flip side of frailty in aging. Frailty increases, resilience decreases. A damaged system is less robustly resilient to further damage, as reliability theory tells us. Degenerative aging is precisely an accumulation of cell and tissue damage at the molecular level,...
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM IMAGE: ANATH SHALEV CREDIT: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Use of the diabetes drug metformin — before a diagnosis of COVID-19 — is associated with a threefold decrease in mortality in COVID-19 patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to a racially diverse study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Diabetes...
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IMAGE: Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that cells in the blood called basophils (brown in illustration) can react to allergens (round honeycomb shapes) in the environment and send itch signals to nerve cells, leading to episodes of severe itch in eczema patients that can’t be...
WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH January 14, 2021 – Orthopaedic surgeons have traditionally been taught that certain types of knee symptoms indicate damage to specialized structures called the menisci. But these “meniscal” and “mechanical” symptoms do not reflect what surgeons will find at knee arthroscopy, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is...
by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty (termed as “physical frailty”...
by Max Planck Society The Covid-19 drug remdesivir (purple) is incorporated into the new RNA chain during the copying process and suppresses the duplication of the coronavirus genome. Credit: Hauke Hillen, Goran Kokic, and Patrick Cramer / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Remdesivir is the first drug against COVID-19 to be conditionally approved in Europe...
