Women exposed to smoke from landscape fires during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to babies with low or very low birth weights, according to findings published in eLife. The study is the first to report a link between low birth weight and exposure to fire smoke in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), where
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A Mediterranean diet can provide many health benefits, but you may risk consuming too many environmental contaminants. Organically produced food can be the solution, a new study shows. Many people swear by a Mediterranean diet, which involves eating a lot of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes and fish, along with a little wine.
Researchers from the INCLIVA Health Research Institute, the Clinical Hospital of Valencia, and the University of Valencia (UV) have participated in a study, the results of which have just been published in Science, which paves the way for a better understanding of muscle injury. The work will enable, in the future, the application of interventions
A nutritional supplement popular in the U.S. and added to some types of yogurt, milk and infant formula can significantly improve cognition in severely malnourished children, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers found that when the omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid
Mayo Clinic Dr. Nathan LeBrasseur discusses muscle loss during the aging process and also looks at strategies and therapies to maintain muscle health.
Is Coca-Cola’s acquisition of BodyArmor enough to topple PepsiCo’s Gatorade from the top slot? The all-cash deal brings Coca-Cola the remaining 85% of BodyArmor, in which it initially invested in 2018 when it acquired 15% of the business through its North American Venturing and Emerging Brands investment portfolio for an undisclosed sum. At the time,
Existen claros puntos de conexión entre el objetivo constitucional de una sociedad democrática avanzada y la definición constitucional de España como Estado social y democrático de Derecho. Por un lado, está la actividad de los partidos políticos como instrumentos fundamentales para la participación política (artículo 6 de la Constitución). Por otro, su conexión con el
Esketamine nasal spray (Spravato) combined with an oral antidepressant for treatment-resistant depression reduced depression severity and led to numerically more remissions during maintenance, post-hoc analyses of three phase III trials suggested. Pooled data from TRANSFORM-1 and TRANSFORM-2 — both 4-week, randomized studies — demonstrated reductions on the 10-item Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score
Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook – which recently renamed itself Meta – is doing far worse than it claims at minimizing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on the Facebook social media platform. Online misinformation about the virus and vaccines is a major concern. In one study, survey respondents who got some or all of their news from
As newly appointed Director of Research for Cancer Research UK, Dr Catherine Elliott will need to draw on her impressive experience if we are to meet the research challenges of a post-pandemic world. Luckily, her time as a scientist, medic and senior leader at some of the UK’s most prestigious research organisations will put her
The United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Public Affairs Committee has published a position paper in the UEG journal to educate policymakers, patients, healthcare professionals, and the general public about the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on digestive health. They also provide recommendations for the clinical considerations on using COVID-19 vaccines in patients with
Charlene Douglas, AKA The Intimacy Coach, shares her thoughts on love, sex, and making time to connect on Happiful’s podcast I am. I have Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychosexual Therapist Charlene Douglas is doing all that she can to help people address their concerns and challenges around relationships, sex and intimacy. From her work with individuals
Even as the U.S. prepares to roll out a covid-19 vaccine to elementary school-aged kids, its efforts to inoculate teenagers — who have been eligible for the shot since May — continue to meet with a lackluster response. So far, about half of kids 12 to 17 are fully vaccinated in the U.S., compared with
Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it. Curbing climate change and improving air quality could provide greater health benefits in our lifetime than previously thought, potentially preventing
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is typically treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) such as imatinib (Gleevec) and similar agents, but some patients cannot tolerate these drugs, and for others these drugs eventually stop working, as the tumor cells develop resistance to them. Some of these patients may now find benefit from asciminib (Scemblix, Novartis), a
The optimized process uses ‘proprietary chromatographic columns and process’ and has already been successfully used in production of mRNA for a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. “BIA’s expertise in chromatographic columns for mRNA purification combined with BioNet’s expertise in the product development of genetic vaccines have, since early 2021, enabled both teams to collaborate on the optimization
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all stuck in our homes during quarantine, unable to see our family for months. Some people had to wait even longer to see their loved ones who are in nursing homes, since they were not allowing visitors. What was only months long felt like an eternity, so imagine what
The politicization of covid vaccines — and, well, just about everything else having to do with the pandemic — has led to confusion, if not utter fatigue. And some posts circulating on social media — this slickly edited piece on YouTube, for example — seem to build on these feelings, attempting to cast doubt on
Warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and menu labeling requirements for chain restaurants could be a cost-effective policy leverage to prevent weight gain and reduce medical expenses, but their impact is expected to fade over time, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “Accurate, readily accessible and easy-to-understand
Surgeons at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone and the NYU Langone Transplant Institute reached a historic milestone when they used a lung transplant to treat a 16-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis whose organs were irreversibly damaged. The surgery took place on May 20, 2021, marking the first-ever pediatric lung transplant performed at NYU Langone
Dr Aaron Beck Aaron Beck, MD, known as the father of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), died on Monday in Philadelphia. He was 100. Beck’s pioneering career in psychoanalysis spanned more than seven decades, yielding more than 600 published articles and nearly two dozen books. His development of CBT redefined the practice of psychoanalysis, challenging long-held
A nationwide study of over 1 million births in the English National Health Service (NHS) between 2015 and 2017, published in The Lancet, has found large inequalities in pregnancy outcomes between ethnic and socioeconomic groups in England. The findings suggest that current national programs to make pregnancy safer, which focus on individual women’s risk and