NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – ZY19489, a novel triaminopyrimidine antimalarial compound, has successfully passed a first-in-human clinical trial, demonstrating promising safety, pharmacokinetics and antimalarial activity, according to a new report. Conducted in 48 healthy adult volunteers in Australia, the study showed ZY-19489 was well tolerated up to the maximum dose tested of 1,500 mg, Dr. Bridget Barber with QIMR Berghofer […]

Imagine if the real cost to society of the food you buy at the grocery store was built right into each product's price. Everything with added sugar would cost a whole lot more, according to University of Alberta researchers in a new study in The Canadian Journal of Public Health. They peg the economic burden of excessive sugar consumption in […]

It’s time to stop engaging in the conversations around whether weight training makes women bulky, argues PT Laura ‘Biceps’ Hoggins.  I may have made my name as a strength advocate (my IG handle is @LauraBiceps), but I’m now refusing to talk or write any more about whether weightlifting makes you bulky. It’s one of the most common questions trainers like […]

The first-of-its-kind study found that poor ventilation and fuel choices were the most significant contributors to poor air quality in people’s kitchens, but the size of the kitchen and the way food was cooked also mattered. Frying food led to particularly high levels of indoor pollution. Professor Prashant Kumar, Founding Director of the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean […]

Women who have had one ovary surgically removed (unilateral oophorectomy) are less likely to become pregnant after in vitro fertilization and give birth to fewer babies than women with both ovaries. That is according to an extensive meta-analysis published in the journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Whether women's fertility is affected by the removal […]

Individual Candida albicans yeast strains in the human gut are as different from each other as the humans that carry them, and some C. albicans strains may damage the gut of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. The findings suggest a possible way to tailor treatments to individual patients […]

People who turned to gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic did so to relieve stress, connect with others and grow their own food in hopes of avoiding the virus, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the University of California, Davis, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) and international partners. The survey report, “Gardening during COVID-19: Experiences from gardeners around […]

Vaccination-acquired immunity against COVID-19 wanes substantially after three months among elderly care home residents, suggesting that regular booster jabs may be needed for this group, according to preliminary findings from the Vivaldi study led by UCL researchers. The study, funded by the UK Health Security Agency and published on the preprint site medRxiv, looked at data from over 15,000 residents […]

Inhalers, pills or injections help most people control their asthma, but some with severe disease opt for cutting-edge surgery that “remodels” their airways to improve their breathing. Bronchial thermoplasty shrinks smooth muscle in the lungs, which prevents them from tightening up and causing an attack. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the treatment for adults with severe asthma in […]

When I first found out I was pregnant with my oldest child, a lot of thoughts went through my mind. I had some of the traditional moments of panic and worries about whether or not I’d be able to hack it as a mother (or, real talk, if I was even strong enough to make it through the process of […]