Climate change has made North America’s pollen season longer and more severe, but there are ways to reduce your allergy misery, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI). The best way to deal with worsening pollen seasons is to get ahead of them. “If you know it’s likely that your allergy...
by Robert Finberg, The Conversation Credit: Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Gee J, Marquez P, Su J, et al. First Month of COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring — United States, December 14, 2020–January 13, 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:283–288 If someone gets a headache or feels a bit under the weather after receiving a COVID-19...
Colon and intestine inflammation can cause pain and discomfort. In some cases, a person may be able to manage their symptoms and reduce the inflammation by adding specific foods to their diet. The primary cause of intestinal and colon inflammation is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD is an umbrella term Trusted Source that covers Crohn’s disease...
Humans evolved in an environment of physical exertion, and our biochemistry requires physical exertion in order to trigger mechanisms of cell maintenance and metabolic regulation. Populations that exercise vigorously into late old age, such as the Tsimane in Bolivia, exhibit very much lower levels of cardiovascular disease. Further, living a sedentary lifestyle shortens life expectancy and increases disease risk when compared...
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (red), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID The head of Pfizer said in an interview aired Thursday that people will “likely” need a third dose of his company’s COVID-19...
Niacinamide and retinol are skin care ingredients that can treat acne and an uneven skin tone. While some people use them separately, others combine them to reap the benefits of both. In this article, we discuss the benefits of niacinamide and retinol for skin health, and we explain how to use them together as part...
Farah Naz Khan, MD, April 12, 2021, 11:11AM (PT) Key takeaways: Getting a vaccine won’t break your Ramadan fast, according to religious leaders and groups worldwide. The vaccine will be just as effective if you get it while fasting — and maybe even more so, according to some experts. If you’re celebrating the start of...
Published April 14, 2021Ben Fidler Maddie Meyer via Getty Images Dive Brief: Moderna on Tuesday released updated results from the large study that led to U.S. authorization of its coronavirus vaccine, showing the shot’s protective effects hold up for at least six months, similar to what’s been reported for Pfizer and BioNTech’s shot. The updated results are from...
by American Chemical Society A wristwatch-like device measures cytokine levels in passive sweat. Credit: Kai-Chun Lin Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors recognized that patients who developed a “cytokine storm”—a surge of pro-inflammatory immune proteins—were often the sickest and at highest risk of dying. But a cytokine storm can also occur in other illnesses, such as...
By Sally Robertson, B.Sc. Apr 14 2021 Researchers in the United States have conducted a pre-clinical study demonstrating the efficacy of two updated versions of the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine against variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: Variant SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines confer broad neutralization as primary or booster...
