by Cristine Hall, University of Southern California Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ixel Hernandez-Castro grew up next to a dairy farm near Fresno, California, where she remembers a plane would fly by on weekends and spray the fields surrounding her family home with pesticides. “They’d finish spraying, and we’d run outside to play,” said Hernandez-Castro, MPH,...
You may be surprised to learn that European men are exposed to Ascaris lumbricoides roundworm. In fact, scientists recently figured out that their exposure to this parasite is greater than previously estimated. A new study from the Universities of Birmingham, Bergen, and Cape Town revealed that young men exposed to Ascaris lumbricoides are at increased...
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Interventions aimed at promoting physical activity in people with asthma could improve their symptoms and quality of life – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers looked at whether interventions such as aerobic and strength or resistance training, had helped participants with asthma. Although they found that...
EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR RHEUMATOLOGY (EULAR) COVID-19 is the disease caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Since it emerged at the end of 2019, the virus has caused a global pandemic. In February 2021, EULAR, the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology, launched COVAX – a physician-reported registry to collect information about COVID...
by NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women receiving one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a single menstrual cycle had an increase in cycle length of nearly one day, compared to unvaccinated women, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The...
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Neural progenitor cells with the typical number of chromosomes show significant outward migration in culture (top). The culture in the bottom left shows untreated trisomy 21 cells. On the bottom right are cells treated with anti-senescence drugs, which restored migration. Credit: Alana Down Syndrome Center at MIT In Down syndrome,...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed the genetic activity of thousands human microglia, the brain’s immune cells. Their results support the idea that microglia may play critical roles some brain disease. Credit: Raj and de Witte labs, Mount Sinai, N.Y., N.Y. Certain subtle differences in...
by Tanner Stening, Northeastern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For many immunocompromised people, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a living nightmare—and the omicron variant may make life even more unsettling. Authorities and drug manufacturers alike have warned that the protection conferred from being fully vaccinated may not be sufficient to ward off the omicron variant in certain...
by University of California, San Francisco Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health Using data from over 300 patient tumors, UCSF researchers have described 12 classes of “immune archetypes” to classify cancer tumors. Their findings, published this week in Cell, reveal that cancers from different parts of the body are immunologically similar to...
by Medical College of Wisconsin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent a group of about 20 conditions that affect more than a billion people worldwide. They are diseases of poverty that impact people living in the poorest communities in terms of wealth, infrastructure, and access to sanitation. They take health away; and...
