by University of Glasgow Kernel density plot of age at suicide, veterans and non-veterans. (A) men (B) women. Credit: DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2021-107713 Scottish veterans face the highest risk of suicide in middle age, many years after leaving service. The study, led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with the Forces in Mind Trust and published in...
Karen Weintraub Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY A federal advisory panel voted Thursday to support booster shots of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people 65 and up, as well as younger adults with certain medical problems or jobs that put them at increased risk for infection. The booster shot will be a half-dose of the same...
Share on Pinterest The WHO has just released a formal definition of long COVID. Irina Efremova/Stocksy Long COVID or post-COVID-19 are umbrella terms that refer to COVID-19 symptoms that persist beyond the initial phase of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The absence of a formal definition for post-COVID-19 has made the research of this condition and its...
What if we could make people young again? Or, if we could regenerate the human heart and treat heart ailments permanently? Cellular reprogramming could make it possible! Cellular reprogramming can have several applications. It can help us model diseases much effectively, drug discovery, precision medicine and regenerative medicine. While understanding cellular reprogramming could be challenging for non-technical...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not as rare as you might think. It is actually quite common in the developed world where around one in 10 people are suffering from it. CKD is permanent kidney damage and loss of renal function and it could significantly impact one’s quality and length of life. Now scientists at the...
IMAGE: VIRGINIA TECH THERAPIST AND RESEARCHER DORY WALLACE HELPS A YOUNG SUBJECT USING INTENSIVE THERAPY THAT LOOKS A LOT LIKE PLAYTIME. WITH GAMES AND TOYS, CHILDREN LEARN TO USE THEIR BODIES AND GAIN MOTOR SKILLS AND COORDINATION WHILE COMPLETING FUN TASKS. THE TECHNIQUES ARE BUILT ON THE GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH AND DISCOVERIES AT THE FRALIN BIOMEDICAL...
It’s long been known that meditative mindful breathing helps with various health conditions, including pain. The new findings indicate that the two types of meditative breathing both lessened pain by modulating the somatosensory cortex, a region of the brain responsible for processing pain, but used different mechanisms, says Alexandre DaSilva, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of...
SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION A new systematic review and meta-analysis has found that alcohol-targeted brief interventions (short, structured, one-to-one conversations about drinking designed to motivate changes in risky behaviour) delivered in doctors’ offices and similar medical settings can produce small but useful reductions in drinking. Published in the scientific journal Addiction, this review synthesized...
IMAGE: THE FOOD COMPASS NUTRIENT PROFILING SYSTEM, DEVELOPED BY RESEARCHERS AT THE FRIEDMAN SCHOOL AT TUFTS, INCORPORATES CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE ON HOW CHARACTERISTICS OF MORE THAN 8,000 FOODS POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY IMPACT HEALTH. CREDIT: TUFTS UNIVERSITY A scientific team at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts has developed a new tool to...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine may benefit from a booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna, preliminary results of a US study published Wednesday showed. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was eagerly awaited in the United States because it looked at the possibility of...
