JANUARY 7, 2022 by The Ottawa Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ontario saw nine times more emergency department (ED) visits per month for cannabis poisonings in young children under the age of 10 after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. While single hospitals have reported on child cannabis poisonings...
JANUARY 7, 2022 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain U.S. regulators on Friday shortened the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster—to five months rather than six. The two-dose Moderna vaccine is open to Americans 18 and older. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision Friday means Moderna recipients are eligible...
Zarrin Hossain January 05, 2022 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is associated with a number of risk factors and now new research, published in Diabetes Care, suggests that increased levels of liver fat and a smaller pancreas volume may also add to a greater risk of developing T2D. Head of Research Communications at Diabetes UK, Dr. Lucy Chambers, commented that this breakthrough...
by The Ohio State University Figure 1. NZM2410 colonized with SFB exhibit intensified kidney disease with elevated immune-complex deposition. 10-week old mice were oral gavaged with fecal matter from mice harboring SFB or control mice and sacrificed at 30-weeks of age and subjected to biochemical analysis. (A) Serum blood urea nitrogen (BUN). (B) Kidney disease...
JANUARY 6, 2022 by Study Finds SHANGHAI, China — Scientists have found a gene that causes humans to have fingerprints. Interestingly, it has nothing to do with your skin! Scientists in China say this gene — responsible for the circular, wavy, or winding patterns on your fingertips — also fuels limb development. The discovery could lead...
By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. Jan 6 2022 Reviewed by Aimee Molineux In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was reported from the Wuhan province of China which, subsequently, spread rapidly across the world. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a pandemic, which is now known as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic....
Prostate cancer is a deadly condition, even though new effective treatments are emerging. It is actually the second most common cancer in men worldwide and the incidence rate of this disease is around 1.1-1.5 per 1000 men every year. Now scientists at UCL found that a new prostate cancer drug abiraterone could halve risk of prostate cancer death...
COVID-19 got us talking about viruses and antiviral treatment and antiviral therapies in general, but the truth is that these tiny organisms have been bothering humanity for the entirety of our history. In fact, now we are better equipped to fight them. Researchers at the Universities of York, York St John, and Leeds designed a new approach...
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER COLUMBUS, Ohio – A cancer immunotherapy drug currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat several forms of cancer is also effective for treating aggressive forms of endometrial (uterine) cancer, according to results from an international phase II clinical trial led by researchers at The Ohio...
David Robson Sun 2 Jan 2022 07.00 EST For more than a decade, Paddy Jones has been wowing audiences across the world with her salsa dancing. She came to fame on the Spanish talent show Tú Sí Que Vales (You’re Worth It) in 2009 and has since found success in the UK, through Britain’s Got Talent; in Germany,...
