By JESSICA KNIBBS VITAMIN D is produced endogenously when ultraviolet rays from sunlight strike the skin and trigger vitamin D synthesis. With a distinct lack of sunshine the past few months, many people are experiencing a vitamin D deficiency without even knowing it. Experiencing a pain in this body part could be a warning sign...
As daycare centers and pre-kindergartens begin to reopen around the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends masks be worn by teachers, care workers and children over two years of age. Important as they are for helping minimize the spread of the coronavirus, masks come with a potential downside when worn around little kids. Decades of research has shown...
by University of Copenhagen Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports have demonstrated that physical activity prompts a clean-up of muscles as the protein ubiquitin tags onto worn-out proteins, causing them to be degraded. This prevents the accumulation of damaged proteins and helps keep muscles healthy. Physical activity benefits health...
For every ten adults in the world, four suffer from functional gastrointestinal disorders of varying severity. This is shown by a study of more than 73,000 people in 33 countries. University of Gothenburg scientists are among those now presenting these results. Functional gastrointestinal disorders, FGIDs, is a collective term for chronic disorders in the gastrointestinal...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – After experiencing an ACL injury, a common sports injury involving ligaments in the knee, many athletes find they can’t return to play with the same vigor as before their injury. But, a new study, published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, finds human growth hormone treatment after ACL reconstructive surgery...
by Emily Caldwell, The Ohio State University Scientists who’ve taken the first look at bacteria in young and healthy vapers’ mouths say that the potential for future disease lies just below the surface. The collection of oral bacteria in daily e-cigaretteusers’ mouths is teeming with potent infection-causing organisms that put vapers at substantial risk for...
By Nick Lavars May 26, 2020 As the most aggressive type of brain cancer and one with a very poor survival rate, there is a desperate need for new and improved treatments for glioblastoma. Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University may have uncovered a powerful new tool in this regard, in the form of an already...
In a new study, an alternative treatment regimen that is less toxic than standard dose-intensive chemotherapy was found to be highly effective for adults with Burkitt lymphoma across all age groups and independent of HIV status. In addition to being better tolerated, the regimen, called dose-adjusted (DA) EPOCH-R, is already an option for diffuse large...
New research reveals environmental pollutant in drinking water is more dangerous than previously understood. Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that perchlorate, an environmental pollutant found in many sources of drinking water in the U.S., inhibits the uptake of iodide, an essential component of thyroid hormones, in a more pronounced and fundamental way than commonly considered. This...
Young people, men and people in “individualistic” societies report higher levels of loneliness, according to a large-scale global study. The study – based on responses from more than 46,000 participants around the world – is the first published research to come from the BBC Loneliness Experiment. The ages of participants ranged from 16-99, and the...
