In Teun Toebes’s small bedroom is a pub-style peanut dispenser, coffee machine, and well-stocked bar. In the wide corridor outside are fake plants and the sound of blaring televisions. It could be any well-appointed student digs, but for the past three years the 24-year-old, who finished his Master’s degree in care ethics a few weeks ago, hasn’t lived instudent accommodation. Instead, […]

Zapping your ears with an electric current could help combat deadly sepsis that kills 48,000 people every year, study finds Zapping the ears with a mild electric current could help to combat the potentially deadly condition sepsis. The new approach, which includes a device that looks and is worn like an earphone, attached to a battery-powered generator, works by stimulating […]

Extreme heat this summer is affecting people across the country—mentally as well as physically. While heat can make anyone irritable, the impact can go beyond that, especially for people with mental health conditions. A Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist explains how heat affects mental health. Excessive heat causes changes in emotions and behavior that can result in feelings of anger, […]

Prostate cancer information delivered by video is considered more trustworthy when delivered by a physician versus a patient, according to a study published online July 19 in JAMA Network Open. Stacy Loeb, M.D., from New York University Langone Health in New York City, and colleagues evaluated the association between racial representation in online content about prostate cancer and trust in […]

EXCLUSIVE Shocking reality of living in America’s ‘forever chemical’ hotspot: North Carolinians who’ve been struck by a wave of death, cancer and illness fear they’ve been poisoned by chemical plant that’s been dumping toxins into water and air for decades Fayetteville resident and Army vet Mike Watters had PFAS levels in blood 14 times higher than the safety cap  Activist […]

Dr Hilary lists the early symptoms of dementia Some aspects of our health and wellbeing as we get older are beyond our control as the risk of many illnesses and conditions increases as we age. But new research has highlighted certain factors that can influence our cognitive health, focusing on a group of people with exceptional memories. As part of […]

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Clinical research in lupus has a mammoth diversity problem: Black individuals are most likely to develop the disease, but they’re the least likely to take part in studies. By the numbers, a 2018 analysis of randomized controlled trials in systemic lupus erythematosus from the years 1997-2017 found that 51% of trial participants were White and 14% were Black, even though […]

Researchers from Singapore have identified a potential dietary supplement that may improve recovery following acute kidney injury (AKI). The finding, published in the Journal of Lipid Research, comes from a long-running research program at Duke-NUS Medical School investigating how cells take up a specialized omega-3 lipid called LPC-DHA. A major public health concern, AKI affects an estimated 13.3 million people […]

Recently, bacteriocins, synthetic antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteriophages (phages), are being developed as precision antimicrobials. This antimicrobial agent targets specific cell wall hydrolases, such as phage-derived endolysins, for their particular function. A recent Nature Communications study demonstrated how phage can be engineered to produce bacteriocins and cell wall hydrolases as antimicrobial effector genes. Therefore, an engineered phage could be used […]