Does coronavirus BLOCK pain? Study suggests it could act like a painkiller to mask illness in the early stages as the virus spreads throughout the body When humans experience something hurtful, a protein called VEGF-A binds to a receptor known as neuropilin-1 and causes the feeling of pain Researchers discovered the spike protein on the outside of the coronavirus also […]
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THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 — Kids who reach puberty earlier than other kids are at an increased risk of harming themselves as teens, British researchers report. “Our study is the first to investigate the relationship between the timing of puberty and self-harm using an objective measure of pubertal timing in boys,” said lead author Elystan Roberts, a researcher at the […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for October 8 One man recovering from serious coronavirus complications recently detailed his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder in an interview with his local news station. Leroy Windley, 51 of Raleigh, N.C., told ABC11 that being in a dark room sends him back to his time hospitalized at WakeMed, as he remembers other coronavirus patients yelling out […]
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F-Factor diet creator Tanya Zuckerbrot is suing influencer Emily Gellis for allegedly posting “4,500-plus false, defamatory and/or harassing statements” about the dietitian and her company. Zuckerbrot, 48, claims in the lawsuit, shared with PEOPLE, that Gellis has told her 207,000 followers that the high-fiber diet causes intestinal damage, heart attacks and death, in some cases. The lawsuit states that Gellis, […]
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A Bloomberg investigation asserts that some doctors are wrongfully diagnosing patients with Lyme disease and prescribing alternative treatments like IV antibiotic infusions and fentanyl patches. Following these treatments, some patients have died while other sustained injuries. Some of the doctors who administered the treatments have received malpractice complaints. But the lack of regulation for these unproven Lyme disease treatments and […]
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Katharine McPhee is a mommy-to-be! The Smash actress, 36, and husband David Foster are expecting their first child together, sources confirm to PEOPLE. McPhee and Foster were spotted out on Tuesday in Montecito, California, grabbing lunch together and shopping for baby buys. The mom-to-be dressed casually in gray leggings, a black top and a baseball cap while carrying her dog […]
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The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool is one of the most promising approaches to advancing treatments of genetic diseases—including cancer—an area of research where progress is constantly being made. Now, the Molecular Cytogenetics Unit led by Sandra Rodríguez-Perales at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has taken a step forward by effectively applying this technology to eliminate so-called fusion genes, which […]
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Coronavirus surge continues throughout the country, and work on a vaccine intensifies Infection rates are up in some two dozen states, with Midwest hospitals now seeing a major uptick in COVID-19 related admissions. You don’t have to be infected with the coronavirus to die because of it. A new study has revealed that people are now less willing to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation, […]
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University of Rochester vision scientist Jesse Schallek can barely contain his excitement as he shares time-lapse videos showing immune cells moving through living retinal tissue at the back of an eye. In one clip, immune cells crawl so slowly along the inside edge of a blood vessel that the video must be sped up 25 times to show their progress. […]
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Lucas Rocha Melogno and his fiancée had been planning their June 2020 wedding for two years. One hundred thirty guests would be attending from all over the U.S., as well as from Honduras, Ecuador, and Melogno’s home country of Bolivia. But Melogno, a Ph.D. candidate in the lab of civil and environmental engineering professor Marc Deshusses, has spent much of […]
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