September 4, 2024 by Aaron Wagner, Pennsylvania State University Study authors Olivia Leach, at the computer terminal, and Rachel Cottle, holding the breathing tube, pose in the environmental chamber used to study vulnerability to temperature and humidity. Credit: W. Larry KenneyAs global climate change causes extreme heat waves to become more common around the world,...
September 4, 2024 by Claudia Poch and Jorge González Alonso, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We tend to think of people’s memories as being either good or bad. However, you might know someone with a terrible memory for names and faces who is very good at learning languages. Another person might have an extraordinary...
September 4, 2024 by Ohio State University Medical Center A new national survey by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center —Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute finds just one in four Americans could identify a nicotine pouch outside of its packaging. As these products skyrocket in popularity, experts worry...
September 4, 2024 by Lori Solomon First-generation antihistamines are associated with a higher seizure risk in young children, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in JAMA Network Open. Ju Hee Kim, M.D., from the Kyung Hee University Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues evaluated associations between prescriptions of first-generation antihistamines and...
September 4, 2024 by Adam Taylor, The Conversation Credit: Laura Tiitto/public domainHair loss will affect everyone at some point in their life. But, despite its prevalence, treating baldness is big business. In Europe, for example, there was a 240% increase in interest in hair transplant surgeries between 2010 and 2021 and Turkey has become such...
September 4, 2024 by Anna Fagre, Sadie Jane Ryan, The Conversation Pathogen transmission is bidirectional between animals and humans. Credit: Fagre et al. 2022/Ecology Letters, CC BY-NC-NDWhen the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans had been the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses...
September 4, 2024 by Teresa Saenz, Texas A&M University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across social media platforms, the hashtag “#cortisolface” has gained traction, with many users claiming that facial swelling and puffiness are due to elevated cortisol levels. Influencers often start their videos with statements like, “You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,” and...
September 4, 2024 by Robin Foster In news that should reassure folks glued to their cellphones all day, a new international review finds no link between cellphone use and brain cancer. Commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), the review included 11 experts from 10 countries who sifted through decades of research—5,000 studies published between...
September 4, 2024 by Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Graves’ disease is a condition of the immune system that leads to an overactive thyroid. It is caused by antibodies attacking the thyroid by mistake. The thyroid and the hormones it produces are the gas pedal for the body. When someone produces too...
September 4, 2024 by Mayo Clinic News Network As students head off to college, close quarters in new spaces could put them at risk for contagious illnesses, including bacterial meningitis. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, explains the common ways meningitis spreads and the best way to prevent an infection. Meningitis is...
