Kaley Cuoco shared some exciting news on Instagram yesterday: she is pregnant! The Flight Attendant star is expecting a baby girl with boyfriend Tom Pelphrey, which the couple announced on Instagram in the sweetest way — with pink cake, of course! “💕Baby girl Pelphrey coming 2023💕,” Cuoco wrote. “Beyond blessed and over the moon… I 💓you @tommypelphrey !!!” The Big Band Theory […]

Researchers have shown that the medication saracatinib shows promise as a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Saracatinib worked as well or better than two approved drugs at reducing tissue scarring in preclinical models of IPF according to the study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Researchers at National Jewish Health, Mount Sinai Ichan School […]

Flu and COVID-19 symptoms can look similar in kids—both are known to cause fever, coughing and fatigue and prompt parents to keep children home from school. And while rare, the chance of either virus leading to critical illness in children may also be similar, suggests research by a team of pediatric intensive care researchers. One in three children in a […]

Two new papers from Mass General Brigham demonstrate the effectiveness of bringing COVID-19 health care services to where people need them the most. At the beginning of May 2021, a team from Mass General Brigham began providing COVID vaccinations to underserved populations living in the greater Boston area by sending mobile health units to 12 predominantly low-income and racial/ethnic minority […]

Having a baby at an early age is fraught with risk. Advice from other teenagers can be one way of increasing the use of contraceptives amongst refugee girls in Uganda. Precocious and unwanted pregnancies are common among teenage girls in refugee camps in Uganda and risk causing serious, sometimes fatal complications. While many of the girls are sexually active, only […]

The National Institute of Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a five-year grant expected to total $30 million to support research to test a novel rehabilitation program designed for older patients hospitalized for acute heart failure. Heart failure, a condition in which the heart is not pumping blood and […]

Great strides have been made over the last few decades that see more women and men surviving breast cancer, but the journey leaves survivors with physical, mental and emotional impacts that can take years to recover from or to learn to cope with the often disabling new realities.  For Dr. Nandini N. Kulkarni, medical director of surgical oncology at New […]

Lorraine: Daisy Maskell discusses living with insomnia We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info It is thought that around a third of all Britons struggle with sleep […]

How well patients recover after a hip fracture varies enormously between NHS hospitals in England and Wales, and in some hospitals one in ten of patients died within a month of their fracture, a new study published in Age and Ageing has found. The research, led by the University of Bristol, investigated how the ways NHS hospitals provide care to […]

New research from Cornell offers insights into a line of CRISPR systems, which could lead to promising antiviral and tissue engineering tools in animal and plants. The research by Ailong Ke, the Robert J. Appel Professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Stan J.J. Brouns at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, […]