Day February 21, 2015

1 The Center of Research Laboratory, The International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, School of medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China 2 Eye and ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200031, China 3 State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology,…

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2015, 12:19 doi:10.1186/s12984-015-0013-9 Edward D Lemaire and Natalie Baddour contributed equally to this work. Published: 20 February 2015

If you’ve ever freaked out about how much hair you’ve been shedding recently, you’re fears aren’t unfounded. According to the American Hair Loss Association, women actually make up 40 percent of those experiencing hair loss. But before you jump to…

Coming down from the height of the Fifty Shades of Grey craze, you might think we’d be sick of parodies of the box office hit—but you’d be very, very wrong. The newest comes courtesy of Ellen Degeneres, who gave the…

I had a strange realization the other day at a friend’s wedding: The groom had just called his bride a “glorious human” in a speech in front of the crowd, which was quite possibly the best compliment ever. And suddenly…

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Physiotherapy Associates, a leading provider of outpatient physical rehabilitation, today announced a partnership with Performance Health to deliver the TheraBandâ„¢ Active Care System. Performance Health manufactures TheraBand, Biofreeze® and other market leading rehabilitation and wellness brands. “We know that our…

Palbociclib, an investigational oral medication that works by blocking molecules responsible for cancer cell growth, is well tolerated and extends progression-free survival (PFS) in newly diagnosed, advanced breast cancer patients, including those whose disease has stopped responding to traditional endocrine…

A 3-D printed heart has given new hope to a 26-year-old woman who was born with a “backwards” heart. Kami Sutton, of Marysville, Washington, has already undergone 19 surgeries to help connect her heart to the rest of her body.…

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government is close to finalizing instructions to prevent medical devices responsible for transmitting “superbugs” from spreading the potentially fatal pathogens between patients, the scientist leading the effort said. The new protocol…

The release yesterday of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report does not officially give us new dietary guidelines for Americans just yet. Famously, there is a political element to this process. The scientists making up the advisory committee do…

I’ve had this reminder in my calendar since doing Marie Forleo’s B School a few years ago. It pops up on Saturday mornings and reminds me to let go of what’s no longer feeling juicy. I see this reminder often,…

After a new bill passed in both the state Senate and House of Delegates this month, Virginia is set to become the 48th state that legally protects mothers’ rights to breastfeed in public, wherever and whenever they choose. Current law…

Big projects. Looming deadlines. Colleagues springing last-minute changes on you. Budgets to manage. Pressure to make cut-backs. Peoples’ jobs on the line. Peoples’ health, well-being or livelihood resting squarely on your shoulders. Whether you make sandwiches for a living, perform…

This article was written by Kristen Chase and repurposed with permission from Lifetime Moms. I can’t say I’ve ever really had a type when it comes to dating, other than “asshole.” Okay, but seriously, I’m not really one to discriminate with…

The big finale of awards season has arrived! This Sunday, the 87th Academy Awards will air on ABC at 7 p.m. EST. We know there’s no way you’ll let yourself get stuck in a gym and miss it—but that doesn’t mean…

The Lifestyle After I gave birth to my son in April 2013, I weighed 155 pounds, and I just didn’t feel like myself. I decided I needed to get back to my pre-baby weight and began slowly working out at…

Ifetayo Harvey’s father was sentenced to 15 years in prison for cocaine trafficking when she was just 4 years old. Even though he only served half of his sentence, he was subsequently deported to his home country of Jamaica, leaving…

Regretting that tattoo you got a few years ago? Alec Falkenham, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, is working on a fix. Falkenham has developed a topical cream that, as BuzzFeed explains it, clings to macrophages, or the white…

You obsess over missed texts. You compulsively clean. But are you OCD? The odds would suggest no. Obsessive-compulsive disorder affects only about 1.6 percent of American adults, according to the National Institutes of Health. And while people do suffer from…

It’s probably your dream to have a personal trainer at your beck and call. Imagine always having someone around who will coax you out of bed for a winter workout on even the coldest of days or who can correct your plank…

Want to test-drive a bigger cup size—for a day? Now you can. Breast augmentations continue to be the most popular cosmetic surgical procedure (in fact, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that close to 300,000 women in the United…

Liberia said Friday it was lifting nationwide curfews and re-opening borders shut last year at the height of the Ebola crisis, after the retreat of an epidemic that has killed thousands. The move comes with Liberia and its neighbours Guinea…

Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) refers to a broad spectrum of liver injuries, including alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and alcoholic cirrhosis. ALD is among the most common liver diseases in the United States; however, it varies significantly by ethnicity. A…

A variety of socio-demographic, personal, and environmental factors have been linked to negative alcohol-use consequences during adolescence and young adulthood. Media exposure to alcohol is one of these factors. A recent study of the content of leading YouTube videos involving…

Adolescent binge drinking has been linked to a host of problems, including worse school performance, risky sexual behaviors, illicit drugs, and a greater risk of suicide. Binge drinking may also be linked to problematic eating behavior, yet little research exists.…

Although several studies have shown an association between intelligence and various health-related outcomes, the research on cognitive abilities and alcohol-related problems has been inconsistent. A new study of the association between IQ-test results and drinking, measured as both total intake…