THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 — While teachers and students are adapting in some locations to wearing face masks for in-person learning, those masks can make speech more difficult to understand, new research suggests. Investigators compared a three-layer fabric mask, a surgical mask and an N95 mask in two classroom settings. The fabric masks made comprehension most difficult. Therefore, the researchers […]
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Certain types of antidepressants might be better than others for treating PTSD because they carry a lower risk of stroke, according to a new study. The research, published Thursday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, looked at data from 1.1 million U.S. veterans. It’s the largest-ever investigation of post-traumatic stress disorder and antidepressant-associated stroke risk in young adults, according […]
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Despite the success of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancers such as lung or melanoma, it is still not effective in breast cancers for being ‘cold’, with low infiltration of immune cells. Tumors use strategies to evade immune surveillance by reducing the infiltration of cells that could attack them or by attracting immunosuppressive cells. These strategies can contribute to the […]
Continue reading » THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — As a teenager, Sandi Thomas appeared for several years on “Dance Connection,” a popular television show in Washington, D.C. For decades, she continued busting a move for the sheer joy of it. “I loved dancing around the house and that sort of thing,” Sandi said. “But all that stopped when I […]
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More than 7% of human oocytes contain at least one exchangeless chromosome pair, demonstrating a remarkably high level of meiotic recombination failure, finds a study appearing December 10 in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The findings suggest that right from the get-go of human egg cell development, a striking proportion of oocytes are predestined to be chromosomally abnormal. But […]
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Nilsa Prowant is pregnant! The Floribama Shore star, 26, announced on Wednesday that she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Gus. Prowant shared a photo on Instagram of the couple posing together outside as the mom-to-be showed off her baby bump while holding a sign that read, "Baby Gazda. Coming May 2021." "Even in the darkest of times […]
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It’s 2am and you’re wide awake. Again. What’s the deal? Stylist explains how to tackle this frustrating sleep issue – depending on what time you tend to wake up during the night. A good night’s sleep is vital for wellbeing and mood but, by its very nature, stressing out about a lack of sleep is unlikely to make the situation better. We have […]
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The mental symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder improve following treatment with a progesterone receptor modulator, as demonstrated by SciLifeLab researcher Erika Comasco and Professor Inger Sundström-Poromaa, Uppsala University. The drug’s mechanism of action provides insights into the potential molecular mechanisms underlying this psychiatric disorder and its treatment. It has long been known that the menstrual cycle can affect women’s mood […]
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Chinese authorities have already approved multiple COVID vaccines for emergency use in the country, and nearly a million Chinese have already been vaccinated with one candidate. Several local governments are already placing orders for domestically developed vaccines, though the Chinese government hasn’t confirmed how many people it’s aiming to vaccinate as part of emergency approval. The first international shipments of […]
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THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 – A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will vote on Thursday whether to recommend emergency approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, a decision that will come not a moment too soon as the country reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday. That record-breaking statistic is unlikely to drop significantly anytime soon: The number […]
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