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Tess Holliday has earned lots of fans as a model and body positive activist who speaks her mind when it comes to beauty standards and body peace. But she’s also a mom, and she’s just as unfiltered when she comments on the joy and chaos of motherhood. Her latest so-relatable share is her new Instagram post. Holliday wrote that she […]
In exfoliation glaucoma, a protein dandruff clogs the outflow pathway for the fluid in our eyes. Scientists have evidence that variants of the same gene that enables us to make connective tissue by crosslinking proteins is associated with this unusual glaucoma. Now they are looking in human eye tissue at a long piece of RNA […]
(HealthDay)—A Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 90 people in 26 states has been linked to a variety of raw turkey products, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Illnesses in this outbreak began between Nov. 20, 2017, and June 29, 2018. To date, 40 people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. […]
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Wednesday it would not hike drug prices in the United States this year, following a similar decision by rival Pfizer amid pressure from the White House. “We don’t plan to take any further price increases in the United States for 2018,” Novartis chief executive Vas Narasimhan told journalists on an […]
In adults over 70, exposure to general anesthesia and surgery is associated with a subtle decline in memory and thinking skills, according to new Mayo Clinic research. The study analyzed nearly 2,000 participants in the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging and found that exposure to anesthesia after age 70 was linked to long-term changes in […]
A new system for monitoring fetal movements in the womb, developed by Imperial researchers, could make keeping an eye on high-risk pregnancies easier. Monitoring the movements of babies in the womb is crucial to providing medical help when it’s needed. At the moment we rely on mothers-to-be noticing if their child has stopped moving around […]
WEDNESDAY, July 18, 2018 (American Heart Association) — A new study involving mice raises another concern about the danger of e-cigarettes in humans after experiments showed that short-term exposure to the device’s vapors appeared to increase the risk of clot formation. A higher risk of clots forming can lead to a greater chance of a […]
For decades, boxing coaches and analysts have concerned themselves with “the tale of the tape,” using a competitor’s measurements—height, weight and reach—to determine their advantage in an upcoming bout. Now, new research out of UC Berkeley suggests that the relative length of an athlete’s arms to their height might be even more important than previously […]
There is a highly sophisticated way to treat some breast and ovarian cancers—a class of drugs called PARP inhibitors, designed to exploit the very defects that make tumors with certain mutations especially deadly. Yet this targeted approach to cancer therapy sometimes fails, and scientists have anxiously sought to understand why. Now, research at The Rockefeller […]
Gyms are places people go to get healthier. But nearly half the gyms in the U.S. contain a potentially addictive carcinogen—tanning beds, report UConn researchers in the July 18 issue of JAMA Dermatology. Exercise reduces the risk of every cancer except one—melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. People who exercise heavily are at greater […]