A healthy diet is important for a healthy life, as stated by the old saying “you are what you eat”. This is even more important in today’s world where diabetes and obesity are widespread. According to the International Diabetes Federation 8th Diabetes Atlas, about 425 million people worldwide have diabetes and, if the current trends continue, 629 million of people […]

Tucked into the temporal lobe, near the base of our brain, sits a small, almond-shaped region called the amygdala that processes our emotions. Neuroscientists at Tufts University have been investigating the symphony of signals created within a subsection of this area—the basolateral amygdala—to better understand how they contribute to negative feelings such as anxiety and fear. This emotional processing hub […]

When words fail, gestures can help to get the message across – especially for people who have a language disorder. An international research team has now shown that listeners attend the gestures of people with aphasia more often and for much longer than previously thought. This has implications for the use of gestures in speech therapy. People who suffer from […]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is responding to the chaos of the covid-19 pandemic by proposing to hide from the public a rating that lets consumers compare hospitals’ safety records and to waive approximately $350 million in financial penalties for roughly 750 hospitals with the worst patient-safety track records. CMS’ chief medical officer, Dr. Lee Fleisher, said those […]

People conceived by sperm and egg donation, as well as their parents and donors, are making use of commercial genetic DNA testing in a variety of ways little considered in earlier reports, according to the interim results of a qualitative study presented here at ESHRE’s 38th annual meeting in Milan. The widespread availability of commercial DNA databanks ‘is transforming how […]

A discovery about how algorithms can learn and retain information more efficiently offers potential insight into the brain's ability to absorb new knowledge. The findings by researchers at the University of California, Irvine School of Biological Sciences could aid in combatting cognitive impairments and improving technology. Their study appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists focused […]

The current wave of COVID-19 highlights a particularly high risk of reinfection by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Why is this? A team from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and of the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) analyzed the antibody neutralization capacity of 120 people infected with the original SARS-CoV-2 strain, or with one […]

Nevada is already seeing more out-of-state patients seeking an abortion, which state officials expected after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Las Vegas has seen a 200% increase in patients traveling from Texas, as compared with the same time last year, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Patients are also expected from Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Utah after the […]

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects nearly twice as many women as men. About 60% of people with AD don’t express apolipoprotein E (APOE ε4), its most established genetic risk factor. New research has shown the MGMT gene may be associated with a higher risk of AD in two different populations, particularly in women without APOE ε4. The study found that the […]

Being ‘hangry’ is a real thing! Scientists find direct link between hunger and anger Word is used to describe someone who is angry because they are so hungry It became popular with rise of internet but made Oxford dictionary in 2018  Participants jotted down hunger level and how they felt five times a day Being ‘hangry’ is a real thing […]