blog_wild-horse-proposal_071919_main.jpg In a historic milestone for America’s iconic wild horses and burros, ASPCA Senior Vice President of Government Relations Nancy Perry, testified this week before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining about the path forward to humane and sustainable management of these beloved animals. In her remarks, Perry established […]
Teen forgot her family after she collapsed and started foaming at the mouth
When Aoife Hartnett, now 14, collapsed whilst bouncing on the trampoline with her friends one afternoon after school aged 11, they simply thought she was ‘playing dead’ – until she started foaming at the mouth. She was placed in an induced coma at hospital and diagnosed with Hashimoto Encephalopathy, a type of encephalitis, which is […]
New blood test for human tuberculosis may also identify people at most risk
A new study conducted by researchers in Leicester and Nottingham has shown the potential for a new blood test to not only diagnose human tuberculosis (TB) but also identify those at most risk of developing the disease, according to findings published in medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Despite recent reductions, England still has one of […]
Want to lose weight? Exercise at the SAME TIME every day
Exercising at the SAME TIME every day is key to losing weight: Scientists discover people are more likely to work out if it becomes a ‘habit’ ‘Consistent exercisers’ worked out for 4.8 days a week and 285 minutes Compared to 4.4 days and 285 minutes among the ‘inconsistent exercisers’ Once a habit, the ‘attention, effort […]
Brain imaging may help identify teens at risk of increasing alcohol use
Teenagers with large amounts of grey matter in the brain at age 14 are more likely to increase their alcohol use over the next five years, according to a whole brain imaging study reported today in eLife. The findings may help scientists understand what makes some teens more vulnerable to developing alcohol use disorders. They […]
Chrissy Teigen Claps Back at Mom-Shamers After Luna's First Dentist Visit
No surprise! Chrissy Teigen clapped back after Instagram trolls criticized her 3-year-old daughter Luna’s first dentist visit. “So proud of my toons at her first dentist appointment!!” the Lip Sync Battle cohost, 33, captioned a social media upload of her mom, Vilailuck Teigen, holding the toddler in her lap at the dentist. Luna pretended to […]
Vet, 41, battles fatigue after a cat scratch at work NINE YEARS ago
Vet, 41, battles extreme fatigue every day after a cat scratch at work nine years ago left her so ill doctors thought she had a brain tumour Victoria Altoft thought nothing when she suffered a deep scratch in 2010 Developed muscle pain, night sweats and aching joints weeks later Tests showed she was infected with […]
Looking down at phones ‘is causing bony spikes to grow on our skulls’
Mobile phones are changing the human skeleton: People spend so much time hunched over screens that ‘bony spikes’ are developing on the backs of our skulls Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia did the study People are increasingly growing lumps of bone at the bases of their skulls The bone forms […]
A precise look at Alzheimer’s proteins
A substance known as amyloid beta protein gets a lot of attention from scientists. Beta amyloid, as it’s also called, is a normal brain protein found in everyone, but for an unknown reason it gunks up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, forming deposits that are the classic hallmark of the disease. A […]
Reese Witherspoon, Daughter Ava Are Basically Twins at ‘Big Little Lies’ Premiere
Seeing double! Reese Witherspoon had the perfect date accompany her to the Big Little Lies season 2 premiere on Wednesday, May 29 — her doppelgänger daughter Ava Phillippe. The Legally Blonde actress, 43, posed with the 19-year-old on the blue carpet at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City with Witherspoon sporting a […]