Mom and dad! Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have two kids at home and love gushing about the little ones. The actor became a father in 2011 when he and his ex-wife, Miranda Kerr, welcomed their son, Flynn. While the pair split two years later, they continue to coparent. The model’s husband, Evan Spiegel, praised their dynamic in July 2020, […]
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A new study published in Nutrition Research has found that children born to a mother with low intake of vitamin B12 during pregnancy were at increased risk of adverse development specific to certain speech and mathematical abilities. The study, from Professor Jean Golding and colleagues at the University of Bristol, used data from the renowned long-term health study Children of […]
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A nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine may be cheap, safe, and effective. Preclinical study suggests that a single dose of a nanoparticle-based vaccine could provide robust immunity. It may be easier to store and transport than currently available vaccines. To bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control will depend not only on safe and effective vaccines but also on the deployment of billions […]
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Glioblastoma brain tumors are especially perplexing. Inevitably lethal, the tumors occasionally respond to new immunotherapies after they’ve grown back, enabling up to 20% of patients to live well beyond predicted survival times. What causes this effect has long been the pursuit of researchers hoping to harness immunotherapies to extend more lives. New insights from a team led by Duke’s Preston […]
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Lung cancer: Signs and symptoms to look out for Lung cancer begins in the lungs and may spread to lymph nodes or other organs in the body, such as the brain. In fact, symptoms may not show until the cancer has spread to other regions. One telltale sign the cancer is having knock-on effects is pins and needles in your […]
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Matt Hancock says there could be annual coronavirus vaccine Much furore has been made over the government’s decision to withhold the second dose of coronavirus vaccines in a bid to inoculate as many people in the UK as possible. Speaking to Piers and Susanna this morning, Matt Hancock defended the government’s decision. As he explained, protection comes two to three […]
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Emma Roberts is one proud mom! On Tuesday, the American Horror Story star, 29, shared the first photo of her newborn son, whom she welcomed with boyfriend Garrett Hedlund late last year. "Thank you 2020 for getting one thing right," she wrote on her Instagram, alongside of a photo of herself holding her baby boy. Roberts also revealed her little […]
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If we’ve learned anything in the past year, it’s that paying lip service to equality, simply quoting civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on his holiday, is not enough to set things right in this world. This year’s MLK Day most definitely cannot just be another day off for our children. It’s up to grownups to equip kids with […]
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to removing unnecessary medical barriers to contraception use by people with certain characteristics or medical conditions. The CDC is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of its U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC), with an exclusive article published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women’s Health. The CDC […]
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(HealthDay)—From 1988 to 2018, there were reductions seen in the prevalence of albuminuria and improvements in glycemic, blood pressure, and lipid control among adults with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online Jan. 8 in Diabetes Care. Michael Fang, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Selvin, M.P.H., Ph.D., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, […]
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