By Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper March 23, 2022 Reprints SERGIO FLORES/GETTY IMAGES Moderna announced Wednesday that it will ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize its Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in children aged 6 months to 6 years, a group for which there are currently no authorized Covid vaccines. The company’s announcement...
The world’s first combined heart-thymus tissue transplant seems to be a success. VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy A baby born with a thymic deficiency received what many consider the world’s first heart transplant combined with a thymus implant. Six months on, the recipient is reportedly thriving. With the donor thymus, the recipient can make T cells that recognize...
Flatulence is a normal and healthy bodily function. Passing gas may make some people uncomfortable and bad smelling gas can lead to embarrassment. Fortunately, strategies are available to help reduce or eliminate unwanted foul-smelling gas. Passing gas, farting, or flatulence refers to a buildup of gas in the digestive system that a person eliminates by passing wind...
A new study investigates the cognitive symptoms of long COVID. Alita/Stocksy, Photo, Stocksy Among the many lingering effects that health experts attribute to long COVID are problems with concentration and memory. More than three-quarters of people with long COVID reported such issues in a new study. Many individuals with these issues say that doctors do...
Fear is a natural phenomenon, known personally to each and every person in the world. However, in some cases fear can be a huge limiting factor in someone’s life. For example, in cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or phobias, fear can prevent people from doing something they want to do. This is why researchers...
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Astudy conducted at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science lays the foundation toward a possible cancer breakthrough in the form of immunotherapy that will exploit a unique immune system weapon in the battle against cancer: naturally produced antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that neutralize specific threats. Other recent studies have found that naturally...
OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY IMAGE: MB, NGB, AND CYGB, BUT NOT HB, WERE ENDOCYTOSED INTO THE HSCS VIA ENDOCYTOSIS PATHWAY, SCAVENGED INTRACELLULAR ROS, AND SUPPRESSED COL1A1 PROMOTER ACTIVITY, RESULTING IN HSC DEACTIVATION AND INHIBITION OF COLLAGEN PRODUCTION IN VITRO AND IN VIVO. GLOBIN THERAPY COULD BE UTILIZED AS ANTI-FIBROTIC THERAPY IN HUMAN LIVER CIRRHOSIS. CREDIT: OSAKA...
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES IMAGE: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AND MIE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS HAVE DETERMINED THE MICROBIAL TOXIN RESPONSIBLE FOR LUNG CELL DEATH IN IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS AND ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASE SYNDROME, AND HAVE DEVELOPED SAFE BLOOD TESTS AND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENTS TO HALT PROGRESSION OF THE DISEASES IN MICE....
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (BOSTON) – Living your best life at 35, ignoring cholesterol and glucose levels, may impact your chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) later in life. According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), lower HDL (high-density cholesterol) and high triglyceride levels measured in blood as early as age...
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY Popular videos offering guidance for living with high blood pressure shared on TikTok frequently focus on alternative medicine and make claims that aren’t backed by scientific evidence, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session. The study assessed the content of TikTok videos focused on...
