The beginning of pregnancy can be daunting enough without the myths around miscarriage adding to feelings of uncertainty and anxiety. If you’ve suffered a miscarriage, you are not alone. Between 10-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage (or around 1 million a year in the U.S.). But that doesn’t make it any less devastating, especially if it happens more than once.  […]

Patients treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) and antiretrovirals (ARVs) for HIV rarely receive drug combinations that are contraindicated, according to real-world data from the EuroSIDA study. Modern DAA therapy has high HCV cure rates, including in people co-infected with HIV, who can be treated with the same DAAs as those with HCV monoinfection, the authors […]

Modern lifestyles are often associated with sedentary behavior (SB) and are also associated with adverse health outcomes. SB has been defined as any behavior occurring in a waking individual who sits, lies down, or reclines while using up 1.5 metabolic equivalent tasks (METs) or less. The total time spent on SB is linked to a decline in several health biomarkers, whether […]

Mom-to-be Kelly Osbourne just shared a super rare glimpse of her growing baby bump — and revealed a certain way she’s treating herself during the second trimester of her pregnancy! Osbourne surprised fans when she made the exciting announcement that she was expecting her first child back in May. According to her ultrasound snap at the time, The Osbournes alum was […]

In a recent review published in Environmental Microbiology, researchers provided insights into monkeypox virus (MPXV) structural characteristics, epidemiology, transmission, zoonotic reservoirs, pathogenesis, and clinical management. Study: Insights into the monkeypox virus: Making of another pandemic within the pandemic? Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock Background Amid the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the world has begun to witness […]

Children who suffer a relapse of the aggressive cancer known as neuroblastoma have small chances of survival. However, a group including researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now shown that DHODH blockers, which are well-tolerated in humans, can cure neuroblastoma in mice if administered in combination with chemotherapy. The study, published in the journal JCI Insight, paves the way […]

A case-control study has found that higher folate levels before or during early pregnancy are associated with a lower risk for congenital heart disease (CHD) in children. Folate supplementation may help, and levels of red blood cell (RBC) folate higher than those currently recommended may be warranted. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. It is recommended that […]

British Heart Foundation: Understanding blood clots 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 Blood clots are gel-like clumps of blood. They are beneficial when they form in […]

The World Health Organization called the recent monkeypox outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern.” There have been more than 40,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox worldwide, with 12 deaths reported. Until recently, the medical community believed monkeypox spread only from animal to human and human to human. Doctors from Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris recently reported the first suspected case […]

A study of over 26,000 middle-aged UK women reveals those with a vegetarian diet had a 33% higher risk of hip fracture compared to regular meat-eaters. University of Leeds research, published today (Thursday, August 11) in the journal BMC Medicine, investigated the risk of hip fracture in occasional meat-eaters; pescatarians, people who eat fish but not meat; and vegetarians compared […]