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...
Medications for HIV have many side effects and can make it challenging to continue treatment. Learn how to manage the side effects to ensure successful treatment and maintain quality of life. Although HIV remains incurable, various medications are available to help people living with HIV live longer, healthier lives and reduce the likelihood of virus...
September 3, 2024 by University of California – San Diego This map shows how the average incidence of Valley fever varies across different counties, with yellow and green representing higher incidence than blue and purple. Credit: UC San Diego Health SciencesValley fever is an emerging fungal disease in the western United States that most often...
September 3, 2024 by University of California – San Diego This map shows how the average incidence of Valley fever varies across different counties, with yellow and green representing higher incidence than blue and purple. Credit: UC San Diego Health SciencesValley fever is an emerging fungal disease in the western United States that most often...
September 2, 2024 by Hazel Flight, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainHow far would you go to lose weight? Maybe cut down on sugar? Take up the Couch to 5K challenge? Well, some TikTokkers are so eager to drop the pounds that they’ve taken the extreme sounding measure of drinking “tadpole water.” Don’t worry, it’s...
