Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the effects of long-term smell loss. Her research has focused on smell loss in people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, but since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she has also studied smell loss caused by COVID-19. In this interview, she talks about how COVID-19 can affect your...
Carissa Reiniger The current crisis is affecting people differently. Many of us are working to manage our mental health as we practice social distancing and deal with the uncertainty we face. Many small businesses had to permanently close their doors, while others who are still fighting hard to stay open are constantly faced with new...
Dark spots on the face can result from hyperpigmentation, which is a common skin condition that occurs when the skin produces too much melanin. Hyperpigmentation can be due to sun exposure, scarring, aging, and more. Many dark spots are harmless. However, if a person wants to reduce their appearance, they can usually do by using topical...
January 29, 2021 8.25am EST Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the effects of long-term smell loss. Her research has focused on smell loss in people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, but since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she has also studied smell loss caused by COVID-19. In this interview, she talks about...
May 14, 2021 8.36am EDT Vaccination is one way we can help get kids back to in-person activities. FG Trade/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 15 years of age on May 10, 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed with recommendations endorsing...
by Kobe University Figure 1: Cross-sections of muscle fibers 2 weeks after injury and a graph to show their distribution. Above: Cross-sections of muscle 2 weeks after injury in non-icing and icing groups.Below: Cross-sectional area distribution (%) of regenerated muscle fibers. Cross-sectional areas of regenerated muscle fibers in the icing group (indicated in black) were small;...
by University of California, Irvine “Our study can transform our understanding of how transplanted stem cells actually work in the body to treat disease,” says Weian Zhao, UCI professor of pharmaceutical sciences. He and graduate student researcher Zachary Wagoner are co-authors of a commentary published online in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Credit: School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences...
by Lewis Taylor, University of Oregon Credit: CC0 Public Domain Home is where the microbes are. That’s one takeaway from newly published research by an interdisciplinary University of Oregon team that found a shared home environment to be the strongest predictor of human microbiome similarity or the commonalities between the communities of microbes that live within...
by University of Oulu Credit: CC0 Public Domain A research team at the University of Oulu, Finland, has discovered a new mechanism in cells that causes an increase in harmful LDL cholesterol. The observation made by the researchers may explain the adverse effects of certain environmental chemicals and medicinal substances on cardiovascular health. At the heart of the finding...
by Mrs Amy King, University of Plymouth Immunohistochemistry for alpha-synuclein showing positive staining (brown) of an intraneural Lewy-body in the Substantia nigra in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Wikipedia A new study has shown that anxiety amplifies the physical signs of Parkinson’s disease, according to people who experience both conditions. The study, believed to be the first to...
