By Emily Willingham on May 25, 2021 Jeanne Calment enjoys her daily cigarette and glass of red wine on the occasion of her 117th birthday. In 1997, she died at the age of 122 and still holds the record for being the person with the longest lifespan. Credit: Jean-Pierre Fizet Getty Images The chorus of the theme song for the...
MAY 27, 2021 by Chris Melore ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It’s safe to say most people can agree hospitals are places where people go to feel better. During the coronavirus pandemic however, a new study reveals about half of all COVID patients are actually leaving hospitals in worse shape than when they entered. In another case...
Exoskeleton reduces the amount of work required to walk by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Soft exoskeleton on treadmill. Credit: Queen’s University Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science A team of researchers at Queen’s University in Canada has developed an exoskeleton that reduces the metabolic cost of walking. In their paper published in the journal Science,...
New research has found that one in every 340 people might carry a mutation in a single gene that makes them more likely to have a greater weight from early childhood and, by 18 years of age, they could be up to 30 pounds heavier with the excess weight likely to be mostly fat. The study led by scientists...
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY IMAGE: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DAVID LYNN, AN EMBL AUSTRALIA GROUP LEADER BASED AT THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SAHMRI), RIGHT, WITH COAUTHORS SAOIRSE BENSON, LEFT, AND DR MIRIAM LYNN. CREDIT: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Varying immune response to vaccinations could be countered with microbiota-targeted interventions helping infants, older people and others to...
UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) announces that the COLCORONA study results are published today in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The article, which is entitled Colchicine for community-treated patients with COVID-19 (COLCORONA): a phase 3, randomised, double-blinded, adaptive, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial, concludes that, given the lack of oral therapies available to prevent COVID-19...
by Waun’shae Blount, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Graphic showing the relative size of PM2.5 particulate matter. A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study shows long-term exposure to air pollution with PM2.5 may lead to loss of smell. Credit: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The loss of smell, a condition known as anosmia, can severely impact a...
By MARY KEKATOS ACTING U.S. HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 18:32 EDT, 27 May 2021 | UPDATED: 18:46 EDT, 27 May 2021 The majority of patients with moderate or severe cases of COVID had at least one long-term symptom, a new study suggests. Researchers found that nearly three-quarters of people continued to suffer fatigue, shortness of breath, and even brain...
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC IMAGE: INTERVENTION GROUP AGE CHANGE. PARTICIPANTS SCORED AN AVERAGE OF 1.96 YEARS YOUNGER THAN BASELINE (P=0.066). OF 18 PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, 8 SCORED AGE REDUCTION, 9 WERE UNCHANGED, AND 1 INCREASED IN METHYLATION AGE CREDIT: CORRESPONDENCE TO: KARA N. FITZGERALD A groundbreaking clinical trial shows we can reduce biological...
SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LA JOLLA, CA–Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, most people in the United States already had been sick with a coronavirus, albeit a far less dangerous one. That’s because at least four coronaviruses in the same general family as SARS-CoV-2 cause the benign yet annoying illness known as the common cold. In a new study...
