(Molly Campbell/ Technology Networks) — The COVID-19 global pandemic has cast a spotlight on mRNA vaccine technology, which is often referred to as part of “the new era” of vaccinology.
Prior to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, mRNA-based vaccines were already being developed for prophylactic and therapeutic …
(Nick Beare/ Ottawa Citizen) — Authors of a new study out of the United Kingdom describe a new weight loss drug as a ‘game changer’ in treating obesity after people using the drug semaglutide were able to cut up to 20 per cent of their body weight.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, focused on …
(Mike Stobbe/ Huffington Post) — U.S. government researchers found that two masks are better than one in slowing coronavirus spread, but health officials stopped short of recommending that everyone double up.
(Ariel Mitropoulos/ ABC News) — Millions of people around the globe are hoping that between lockdowns and vaccines, the virus that causes COVID-19 might soon be eradicated from our lives. Now, experts are warning that the virus might be with us forever — but it won’t always be a deadly plague.
(Sarah Marsh/ The Guardian) — Psychiatrists have warned of a “tsunami” of eating disorder patients amid data showing soaring numbers of people experiencing anorexia and bulimia in England during the pandemic.
Dr Agnes Ayton, the chair of the Eating Disorder Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said the number …
(Sukanya Charuchandra/ Cancer Health) — Frequent use of aspirin by people at least 70 years of age was linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer compared with people who used aspirin more infrequently. However, this association was seen only among people who first used aspirin at an earlier age, according to findings …
(Johanna Cheek/ Healthy Debate) — With the second wave forcing more people into isolation, we are now facing another public health crisis with deadly consequences: loneliness.
During this pandemic, we have stayed physically apart to keep our tribe alive. But it is staying in the tribe that has kept us safe as we have evolved. …
(Robert Preidt/ Health Day) — Breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the world’s most commonly diagnosed cancer.
In 2020, there were an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and nearly 10 million cancer deaths worldwide, according to the Global Cancer Statistics 2020 report from the American Cancer Society …
(Katherin J. Wu/ The Atlantic) — At about 2 a.m. on Thursday morning, I woke to find my husband shivering beside me. For hours, he had been tossing in bed, exhausted but unable to sleep, nursing chills, a fever, and an agonizingly sore left arm. His teeth chattered.
His forehead was freckled with sweat. And as I lay next to him, …
(Gretchen Reynolds/ The New York Times) – If you often exercise, there’s a good chance you also tend to be more creative, according to an interesting new study of the links between physical activity and imagination. It finds that active people come up with more and better ideas during tests of their inventiveness than people who …