Most gyms offer an induction for new members. Here’s how to make sure you get what you want from yours… My gym induction involved a male instructor walking me around the weighted machines. He recommended that I try a circuit of leg presses, leg curls, chest presses and bicep curls. I did it – three times a week, for a […]
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Our gut microbiome—the ever-changing “rainforest” of bacteria living in our intestines—is primarily affected by our lifestyle, including what we eat or the medications we take, most studies show. But a University of Notre Dame study has found a much greater genetic component at play than was once known. In the study, published recently in Science, researchers discovered that most bacteria […]
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Dr. Murthy: Delta variant is ‘far more transmissible’ than other COVID variants US Surgeon General discusses the dangers of the new coronavirus variant on ‘Special Report.’ A new study found that individuals need to be fully vaccinated in order to be protected from the COVID-19 Delta variant, which is now dominant in the United States. “In individuals that were not […]
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Researchers from ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium) pediatric Long Covid working group in the UK, Sechenov University and Z.A. Bashlyaeva Children's Municipal Clinical Hospital in Russia ran the largest study to date on children hospitalized with COVID-19. The study aimed to discover what the long-term effects are on children and adolescents who have been hospitalized with […]
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A new study shows that individuals with bipolar disorder who are exposed to significant trauma may be at greater risk for suicide death, suggesting that clinical diagnosis of or genetic predisposition to trauma-related conditions could be important factors to consider in suicide prevention. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for over 40,000 deaths […]
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Obesity, atopic dermatitis, psychiatric disease, and arthritis are the most common comorbidities among infants, children, and adolescents with psoriasis, while predictors of moderate to severe disease include morphology, non-White race, and culture-confirmed infection. Those are among the key findings from a retrospective analysis of pediatric psoriasis patients who were seen at the University of California, San Francisco, over a 24-year […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women with lymph node-negative, estrogen receptor-positive/ERBB2-negative breast cancer, tumor size and grade were significantly associated with long-term survival and benefit from tamoxifen therapy in a secondary analysis of a randomized trial. “We believe our findings, together with other study findings, are important to understand the lifetime risk for patients diagnosed with breast cancer, which […]
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(HealthDay)—Among privately insured families with in-network deliveries in 2019, almost one in five potentially received surprise bills for maternal and/or newborn care, according to a study published online July 2 in JAMA Health Forum. Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues estimated the frequency and magnitude of surprise bills for deliveries and newborn hospitalizations […]
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Researchers from the Prostate Cancer Biology laboratory, directed by Giuseppina Carbone, M.D., at the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR, affiliated to USI) in Bellinzona, have discovered an unexpected mechanism that drives the largest group of prostate tumors’ evolution, the ERG fusion-positive prostate cancers. The study is published in Nature Communications. Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies and […]
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by the Universities of Cambridge and Tübingen, has gathered measurements of body and brain size for over 300 fossils from the genus Homo found across the globe. By combining this data with a reconstruction of the world's regional climates over the last million years, they have pinpointed the specific climate experienced by each fossil […]
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