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Probiotic Supplementation Regulates Newborn Immune System

06/28/2021 Health News

Supplementing breastfed infants with bifidobacteria promotes development of a well-regulated immune system, theoretically reducing risk of immune-mediated conditions like allergies and asthma, according to investigators. These findings support the importance of early gut colonization with beneficial microbes, an event that may affect the immune system throughout life, reported lead author Bethany M. Henrick, PhD, director of immunology and diagnostics at […]

Heather Rae Young 'Can't See' Herself Having Babies While Raising Stepkids

06/28/2021 Health News

Full house! Heather Rae Young is all set while helping raise fiancé Tarek El Moussa’s two children. Celebrity Stepparents: Jada Pinkett Smith, Kurt Russell and More “Probably the No. 1 question I get asked is if Tarek and I are adding more babies to the family,” the Selling Sunset star, 33, wrote via Instagram on Monday, June 28. “I never […]

Care disparities seen for COVID-19 patients with, without schizophrenia

06/28/2021 Health News

(HealthDay)—There are disparities in health and health care between hospitalized COVID-19 patients with schizophrenia and without severe mental illness, according to a study published in the May issue of Schizophrenia Bulletin. Guillaume Fond, M.D., Ph.D., from the FondaMental Academic Centers of Expertise for Schizophrenia in Créteil, France, and colleagues examined whether COVID-19 health outcomes and care differed for patients with […]

Mixing AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines generates strong immune response against COVID-19

06/28/2021 Health News

Coronavirus spike is 'in unvaccinated groups' says expert When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Alternating doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca […]

Drug dosage for children could be improved with new method under development

06/28/2021 Health News

When prescribing medicine to children, doctors often rely on guidelines that simply scale down the dosage that adults receive. This imprecise and common practice fails to capture the nuances of childhood, which include rapid growth spurts. To improve upon this method, a University at Buffalo-led team of researchers developed a single, open source mathematical equation that compares the physiological relationships […]

Researchers engineer cells to destroy malignant tumor cells but leave the rest alone

06/28/2021 Health News

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a promising new cancer immunotherapy that uses cancer-killing cells genetically engineered outside the body to find and destroy malignant tumors. The modified “natural killer” cells can differentiate between cancer cells and healthy cells that are often intermingled in and around tumors, destroying only the targeted cells. The natural killer cells’ ability to distinguish the […]

Vaccines and drugs must be adapted to combat emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, says study

06/28/2021 Health News

A new review of the emerging variants of concern (VOCs) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, shows that there is a major need to constantly re-evaluate the utility of existing therapeutics and vaccines against the virus and to develop new ones. The paper, published online in the journal […]

Paralympic Triathlete Allysa Seely Suffered Debilitating Pain For 2 Years Before Diagnosis

06/28/2021 Health News

I’ve always loved to be active. My parents put me in every sport you can imagine: soccer, karate, dance, gymnastics, acrobatics, T-ball, swimming, diving. By high school, I’d settled into two: dancing and running. But despite being athletic, I was really clumsy—I’d run into walls. I was also small compared with the rest of my family, and my feet rolled […]

Move of the week: bent over row – for hitting those hard-to-reach back muscles

06/28/2021 Health News

Welcome to our weekly Move of the Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part of your workout regime. This week: bent over row. A “row” is a movement that simply describes drawing the arms toward and […]

Roche's neuromyelitis optica drug Enspryng wins EU approval

06/28/2021 Health News

FILE PHOTO: A sign at a diagnostics site for Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is seen, in Burgess Hill, Britain, October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File PhotoZURICH (Reuters) – Roche’s Enspryng has been approved by the European Commission, the Swiss drugmaker said on Monday, the latest regulatory blessing for the injectible drug that can be given at home to treat neuromyelitis optica […]

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