Smoking has been glamorized to consumers for decades, but the packaging of combustible tobacco products have been the central target in a global effort to get more people to not smoke. From colorful pictures to specific wording, what is seen on the surface packaging of these products has long served as the main component in advertising for tobacco companies. In […]

New South Wales health authorities have issued a measles alert after a baby who recently returned from overseas, and subsequently visited several sites in Western Sydney, tested positive to the virus. This follows two cases of measles in a family on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast who returned from overseas on March 13, and a case in South Australia which was also […]

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Passover is a paradox of a holiday, as so many religious holidays can be. It is when Jewish people re-tell the story of some serious topics — slavery, prejudice, genocide — and also it’s oriented toward children. Fortunately for […]

A novel approach to administer intrathecal (IT) immunotherapy (directly into the spinal fluid) and intravenous (IV) immunotherapy was safe and improved survival in a subset of patients with leptomeningeal disease (LMD) from metastatic melanoma, according to interim analyses of a Phase I/Ib trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The study, published today (March […]

Oncology is one of the most emotionally and mentally challenging careers. Every day, oncologists make excruciating decisions and have difficult conversations with patients who are fighting for their lives. Yet many oncologists say love their jobs despite — or because of — these challenges. Medscape spoke with four oncology care providers to get an inside look at why they find […]

In a recent study published in the Nutrients Journal, researchers evaluated the effects of poor diet quality and lifestyle behaviors (including smoking, sleep, drinking, and physical activity) on modifying the genomic susceptibility to impulsivity. Study: Do Poor Diet and Lifestyle Behaviors Modify the Genetic Susceptibility to Impulsivity in the General Population? Image Credit: JuliaSudnitskaya/Shutterstock.com Background Impulsivity is a multidimensional and complicated […]

Almost two-thirds of pregnancies now occur OUTSIDE of marriage as record conception rates among over-40s fuel first rise in six years ONS data shows 824,983 births were logged in England and Wales in 2021  523,513 were outside of marriage or civil partnership, with 301,470 within one Conception rate for women aged 40 is now at a record high of 17.3 per […]

High blood pressure in children is not uncommon, and research shows it may lead to high blood pressure in adulthood, as well as problems with the heart, blood vessels and kidneys, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published today in the Association’s Hypertension journal. An American Heart Association scientific statement is an expert analysis of […]

In a recent article published in the Communications Biology Journal, researchers in Sweden found new evidence favoring the hypothesis that wastewaters and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) presented a feasible environment for mobilizing antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the past. They also raised concerns that the mobilization of additional ARGs could also occur in wastewaters and WWTPs in the future. Study: Evidence […]

Improving the seasonal influenza vaccine and public health specialists’ ability to predict pandemic potential in new flu strains may be possible, due to new findings from scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The key is the stability of a viral protein that gains entry into human cells. The findings were published today in Science Advances. “We found that the […]