Liver cancer: Expert discusses symptoms and treatments Ascites is the medical term given to a swollen tummy caused by fluid build-up. What are the other symptoms of HCC? Are you at risk of the disease? Macmillan Cancer Support noted that there are no symptoms of liver cancer in the early stages of the disease. However, possible symptoms can include a […]
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How does SARS-CoV-2 evade our immune defenses? It’s a good question, actually. When SARS-CoV-2 defeats host defenses, we need to know how it does so, and conversely, when host defenses prevail, that also needs to be understood. The first time that a cell meets the virus, it is the local innate immune system inside the infected cell that must spring […]
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Yoojin Lee studied food science and engineering in South Korea. A growing interest in how nutrients affect the body led her to the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources where her research focused on the relationship between obesity-associated diseases and foods that might have protective effects and other positive health benefits. Obesity, a […]
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Angela Matijczak, a first-year doctoral student at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work, led a study exploring how social support from humans and comfort from companion animals can help LGBTQ+ young adults deal with microaggressions. The study, “The Moderating Effect of Comfort from Companion Animals and Social Support on the Relationship between Microaggressions and Mental Health in LGBTQ+ […]
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Every Sunday afternoon, Suzan Mubarak keeps an eye on her phone. That is when her boyfriend will call to let her know he’s outside her house for their weekly wave. Mubarak, 31, and Mitch Domier, 43, live a few miles apart in Bozeman, Montana, but those drive-by visits are the closest the couple has been for nearly 10 months. The […]
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Clad head to toe in protective gear, doctors and nurses cluster around the patient, fighting to keep the coronavirus-stricken man alive. Just behind them, unnoticed and unheard, a worker in the same protective gear goes about an entirely different task: disinfecting surfaces, collecting waste in biohazard bags, unobtrusively inching past beds and life-support machinery to mop the floor. The cleaners […]
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A study of 44,541 women has found that there appears to be no association between type 2 diabetes and developing breast cancer overall. This may be because most women in the study with type 2 diabetes were taking metformin, a medication widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, whose actions may help to reduce the risk of developing oestrogen positive […]
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Halsey is looking back at her struggles with endometriosis as she celebrates her pregnancy. On Thursday, the "Without Me" singer, 26, shared a Polaroid of herself baring her baby bump alongside the scars from the multiple surgeries she had undergone to help treat her endometriosis. In a post on her Instagram Stories, Halsey drew two arrows pointing toward her lower […]
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In the beginning, it was brutal. One lap was an immediate emotional release; 39 more offered an abbreviated sense of freedom from the confines of the six-by-nine cell he called home at Fort Dix, a federal prison in New Jersey. Running became his escape from reality. Hector Guadalupe, 42, grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, during the crack epidemic that swept […]
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When their manhood is threatened, some men respond aggressively, but not all. New research from Duke University suggests who may be most triggered by such threats—younger men whose sense of masculinity depends heavily on other people’s opinions. “Our results suggest that the more social pressure a man feels to be masculine, the more aggressive he may be,” said Adam Stanaland, […]
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