Canada’s national advisory body on vaccines now recommends giving third doses of COVID-19 vaccines to certain immunocompromised individuals, but still hasn’t reached a decision on whether to provide additional shots to the broader population. Released on Friday, the new recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) stipulate that moderately to severely immunocompromised Canadians
After a steep decline in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, youth with suicidal thoughts and behaviors visiting an emergency department (ED) resurged with an overrepresentation among girls and children without a prior psychiatric history, according to a cross-sectional study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. The latest findings, published in JAMA Psychiatry, are highly consistent
As part of a previously announced deal with Novavax, Takeda is establishing the capability to manufacture TAK-019 – known outside Japan as NVX-CoV2373 – at its facilities in Japan and aims to begin distribution early net year. Novavax is licensing and transferring manufacturing technologies to enable Takeda manufacture the vaccine antigen and it is supplying
Arizona dietary supplements company Mdrive recently released Mdrive Start, a hybrid nutritional supplement that combines six clinically tested ingredients to support energy, testosterone levels, lean muscle and memory with six forms of protein. “It’s unheard of to have six protein sources and seven clinically tested ingredients in one product,” said Michael Kehoe, president of Mdrive.
The new study was published in the Journal of Dietary Supplements. It was the work of a team led by Hunter S. Waldman, PhD of Human Performance Research Laboratory at the University of North Alabama. Betaine is a zwitterionic compound which refers to its property of having both positively and negatively charged groups (‘zwitter’ is
Supplementation with 200 mg per day of the E. longifolia extract combined with or without a concurrent training program was associated with higher testosterone levels after six months, compared to placebo, in men with Androgen Deficiency of Aging Males (ADAM), a condition that reportedly affects between 6 and 12% of middle-aged men worldwide. Improvements in
Researchers looking for post-breastfeeding dietary patterns in two prospective birth cohorts that predispose infants to asthma found one, and it wasn’t what anyone expected. After switching from breast milk, babies up to age 1 whose protein intake came largely from meat products — as opposed to dairy, fish, or egg proteins — showed more than
Mask mandates are needed in schools as part of a layered approach to prevent the spread of COVID-19, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said during a New York Times event on Thursday. COVID vaccines could become available for some children under the age of 12 as early as this fall, he said, but until that
Let me start by saying I am no fig expert. I just happen to like figs and with a fig tree in my yard with an overabundance of figs this summer, I have learned about their versatility and health benefits. They are a naturally sweet and healthy addition to your diet. A few years ago,
Following several studies over the past year that observed T cells gathered before the pandemic show reactivity against both the spike and nucleocapsid proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) and several non-structural proteins. Most of the T cell’s response was detected against spike proteins similar to those seen in coronaviruses known to
Breast milk components and their health functions: the science so far Advanced analytical technologies such as next-generation sequencing have enabled unprecedented exploration of human breast milk and expanded research on its various health benefits. Nevertheless, breast milk is a complex system of bioactive components, many of which have not yet been identified, and others which
We explore how to navigate the conversation, and help you integrate your therapeutic life into your dating life I need some professional help, but what will my partner think? Will they think it’s their fault? Or that I’m being overdramatic? Will they think it’s unnecessary?’ These are some of the questions that went through my
In laboratory animals, sex differences in behavior occur because different hormone levels produced by males and females influence patterns of gene expression in the developing brain. However, the origins of sex differences in human behavior are not as well understood, according to a team of researchers. In the lab, you can do experiments on how
As the world observes World Suicide Prevention Day this September 10, it aims to raise mental health awareness. It’s important for everyone to understand that even simply talking to someone you trust can help you feel better. However, really opening up especially about a topic like mental illness can be quite hard most especially now with so many restrictions to
Artificial intelligence may predict the course of geographic atrophy in individual patients, helping clinicians determine whether patients are benefiting from drug therapy. Accurate predictions will become important if, as expected, drugs now in the pipeline are approved to slow the progress of the disease, said Tiarnán Keenan, MD, PhD, a staff clinician who researches age-related
The collaboration covers R&D of ‘off-the-shelf’ cell therapies for up to five shared cancer targets along with the development of a novel allogeneic personalized cell therapy platform. The partners have not disclosed any details on indications or likely targets. The UK biotech will receive US$150m upfront, as well as US$150m over the next five years in
Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, applauded President Joe Biden‘s push to increase vaccine mandates covering millions of U.S. workers. “People don’t want to change jobs, people don’t want to be inconvenienced,” said Jha on CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith.” “I do think a vast majority of people
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved a first-of-its-kind cancer drug – capable of targeting a gene mutation that causes some of the most aggressive cancers – to treat a certain form of lung cancer. The ground-breaking decision follows a 40-year hunt for a drug that can tackle a mutation that long
Meatless Farm, Equinom tie-up on high-protein yellow pea: ‘Food companies have merely scratched the surface when it comes to yellow peas’ Meatless Farm’s ingredient division, Lovingly Made Ingredients, will work alongside Equinom to commercialise ‘new ingredients’ using Equinom’s yellow pea seed varieties and Lovingly Made Ingredient’s processing capabilities, we were told. “Lovingly Made Ingredients will
El suicidio es un problema cada vez más frecuente en nuestra sociedad. En España, se quitan la vida 10 personas al día, una cada 2 horas y media. En el mundo, y según datos de la Organización Mundial de la salud (OMS), más de 700 000 personas fallecen al año por suicidio, aunque el número de
Si se pudiera dibujar el peor enemigo del suicidio, tomaría la forma del silencio. A lo largo de la historia ha existido un velo de oscuridad que no permitía hablar a todas aquellas personas que pensaban en acabar con su vida para terminar con su sufrimiento. El tabú y los diversos mitos que acompañan a
A lo largo de la pandemia originada por el SARS-CoV-2 se han sucedido varios hitos importantes. Cuando empezó todo, desde Europa asistíamos a la epidemia de un nuevo coronavirus en China como meros espectadores. Nos autoconvencíamos de que el problema iba a ser como el causado por el SARS-CoV de 2003 o el MERS, que