Your chance of breaking a bone sometime within the next year is nearly 4%. If you’re unlucky enough to need a bone replacement, it’ll probably be based on a metal part. Unfortunately, metal parts are sometimes toxic over time, and will not help your original bone regrow. Calcium phosphate ceramics—substitutes for the bone mineral hydroxyapatite—are in principle an ideal alternative […]

Spending more time doing light-intensity activities and less time being sedentary was associated with a reduced risk for first stroke in a population-based study of middle aged and older adults. The study also found relatively short periods of moderate-to-vigorous exercise were associated with reduced stroke risk. “Our results suggest there are a number of ways to reduce stroke risk simply […]

Protection against symptomatic COVID-19 begins to decrease after one month from initial vaccination, while immunity against severe COVID-19 remains high for about six months, according to a recent study in BMC Infectious Diseases by Penn State College of Medicine scientists. In the largest study to date, the researchers analyzed data from 7 million unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals. The latter received […]

DAKAR (Reuters) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) committed 75 million euros ($80 million) on Thursday to finance construction of a new facility in Senegal that will produce COVID-19 and other vaccines for use across Africa. The plant, run by the Paris-based Institut Pasteur, is intended to help Africa reduce its dependence on vaccine imports, which currently account for 99% […]

A large randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial led by the National Institutes of Health shows that treating adults hospitalized with COVID-19 with infliximab or abatacept—drugs widely used to treat certain autoimmune diseases—did not significantly shorten time to recovery but did substantially improve clinical status and reduce deaths. Some COVID-19 patients experience an immune response in which the immune system unleashes excessive […]

Inherited mutations in the BRCA1 gene can significantly increase a person’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer—but not every mutation in the gene is harmful. To better equip patients and their doctors to understand and manage individual cancer risk, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute have evaluated how hundreds of different mutations impact a key function of the BRCA1 protein. In […]

Number of trans people receiving NHS treatment rises 75% in five years amid national HRT shortage that’s left menopausal women desperate 11,000 people were listed as being gender dysphoria patients in the UK in 2021 This is a 75% rise in the number of patients with the condition compared to  2016 Of the 2021 patients, at least 1,500 were on HRT, […]

A new £265,000 study led by the University of Stirling is seeking to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected health visiting services across the UK, with a view to improving them in the future. Dr Erica Gadsby. Image Credit: University of Stirling The 18-month project – funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) – will […]

Two separate findings by a University of Houston nationally recognized expert in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), a chronic autoimmune disease that affects multiple organs including the kidneys, skin, joints and heart, are being reported in scientific and medical journals.   Chandra Mohan, M.D., Ph.D., Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering in the UH […]

Food delivery cyclists are being injured at much higher numbers than official reports show, according to a new study that used hospital records to try to uncover the real extent of delivery-related cycling injuries in these gig economy workers. SafeWork NSW reported 37 pedal cycling injuries associated with commercial delivery in 2019-2020 state-wide—but a pilot study in just one Sydney […]