‘Why did I suddenly start talking gibberish?’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions Last night, I was reading to my wife and I found it came out as slurred gibberish, which frightened me. It lasted for about five minutes and then my speech returned to normal. Should I be worried? Name and address supplied. When something unexpected such as […]
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How quickly can Americans hope to get the coronavirus vaccine? Here is a look at the next steps in the approval and distribution process: Short term: first authorizations The vaccine advisory committee of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will meet Thursday after poring over data from clinical trials carried out by Pfizer/BioNTech. The FDA should then give its […]
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It’s a truth we all come to understand once we have kids: Parenting changes everything — including sex. While almost everyone experiences frequent shifts in their sexuality and libido over their lifetime, with parenting there are just more…complexities. Pregnancy and childbirth for gestational parents can really disrupt how you feel in your body (and if you aren’t aware of what […]
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A growing mental health crisis is the “second wave” of health issues that experts anticipate due to the prolonged stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking poll from July, 53 percent of U.S. adults reported that their mental health had been negatively affected by worry and stress over the pandemic—up from 32 percent reported in […]
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(HealthDay)—Sexual assault trauma may partly explain why women are more likely to develop psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, held virtually from Dec. 4 to 8. Slavina Goleva, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues reviewed electronic medical records to determine which of 1,653 medical diagnoses co-occurred […]
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Despite the challenging year, success hasn't slowed down for Megan Thee Stallion. She finally dropped her first album, Good News; was named GQ's Rapper of the Year; and even received four Grammy nominations — and she did it all while looking fabulous in the many gorgeous wigs from her impressive collection. But on December 6, the Hot Girl switched it […]
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According to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, the natural sweetener stevia may lead to a gut microbial imbalance. The findings were just published in Molecules, a leading international peer-reviewed journal of chemistry. Stevia is a natural low-calorie sweetener that is growing in popularity in food and beverage products and is generally considered safe. However, […]
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Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM At the beginning, during the first surge, people were too scared to get out of their homes – let alone come to the hospital – and the Mount Sinai clinics […]
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While other countries gear up for rapid roll-outs of COVID-19 vaccines, Switzerland is staking out a slower path, prizing caution over speed, according to a leading vaccine expert. Britain and Russia will both begin mass vaccination this week, while US and European regulators are expected to provide emergency approval for two vaccines very shortly, with millions of doses set to […]
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Neuroscientists at the German Primate Center (DPZ)-Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have developed a model that can seamlessly represent the entire planning of movement from seeing an object to grasping it. Comprehensive neural and motor data from grasping experiments with two rhesus monkeys provided decisive results for the development of the model, an artificial neural network that is […]
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