HEALTH NOTES: Sticky tape eczema test for newborns gives medics an early warning about the painful skin disease Scientists have developed a simple test using sticky tape that can predict whether newborns will go on to develop childhood eczema. Italian researchers used the tape to collect skin cells from babies’ hands at two months, and then again two years later. […]

Systolic blood pressure (BP) went down safely and consistently 2 months after renal denervation achieved by ultrasound ablation in patients with uncontrolled, mild-to-moderate hypertension (HTN) in a key sham-controlled test of the balloon-equipped catheter. The BP reductions were significant almost regardless of how they were measured—at home, in the office, during the day, at night, or over 24 hours—and weren’t […]

A review of decades of research revealed more than a dozen kinds of animals in addition to slugs and snails have caused rat lungworm disease in people around the world. Researchers from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the University of London (UK) combed through nearly 140 scientific studies published between 1962 and 2022 and found 32 species of […]

This Morning: Rochelle Humes reveals awkward exercise blunder 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 Step into a posh gym or head into some Nordic countries and […]

Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, announced Tuesday a revised supply deal with Canada worth up to $470 million. The agreement with Canada’s public health agency is worth about $234 million, with an additional $180 million in contract options for further doses over 10 years, the company said in a statement. A multi-year […]

For all the talk about embedding computers in clothing, here’s an interesting option. Make the clothing the computer, and do it without electricity. Mechanical engineers at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering are trying the concept on for size with a set of textile-based pneumatic computers capable of digital logic, onboard memory and user interaction. The lab’s “fluidic […]

Every day in the United States, 17 people die waiting for an organ transplant, and every nine minutes, another person is added to the transplant waiting list, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration. One potential solution to alleviate the shortage is to develop biomaterials that can be three-dimensionally (3D) printed as complex organ shapes, capable of hosting cells […]

Psychologists at UNSW Sydney and University of Wollongong have challenged the prevailing view that people with exceptional face recognition abilities rely on processing faces holistically. Instead, they argue, people who are great at learning and remembering new faces—also known as super recognizers—can divide new faces into parts, before storing them in the brain as composite images. “It’s been a long-held […]

If you have just been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, you may be wondering whether there is a specific hypothyroidism diet that could help to treat your condition. Unfortunately, pharmaceutical medication is the only treatment that can restore your thyroid function. But this being said, certain nutritional factors may still provide some relief from your symptoms.  “Food and nutrients alone […]

LONDON (Reuters) – The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday backed the use of Novavax’s COVID-19 shot as a booster for adults, ahead of an anticipated rise in infections this winter. The vaccine, Nuvaxovid, is designed to target the strain of the virus that originally emerged in China. The EMA’s recommendation is for people who previously were inoculated with either […]