Day January 6, 2017

Electronic cigarettes have been found to damage men’s sperm through toxic chemicals in the flavourings. The latest study to raise health concerns about the fashionable devices found cinnamon-flavoured e-cigarettes in particular make sperm slower swimmers. Bubblegum flavouring, another of the…

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An international research team, led by the University of Bristol, has provided the first clues to understand how the mcr-1 gene protects bacteria from colistin – a ‘last resort’ antibiotic used to treat life-threatening bacterial infections that do not respond…

By Kate Bass, BSc Recommendations for introducing peanut-containing foods to infants, compiled by an expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, were published this week. The guidelines…

In a new study of indoor tanning and skin cancer risk, the use of indoor tanning among non-heterosexual black male teens was found to be nearly equal to that of heterosexual white females. The study led by San Diego State…

A University of Alberta engineering researcher has developed a new way to treat common surgical masks so they are capable of trapping and killing airborne viruses. His research findings appear in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports, published by Nature Publishing…

A new study indicates that many nursing home residents receiving dialysis do not have advance directives that sufficiently address end-of-life treatment decisions. Those with advance directives that put limitations on treatments and designated surrogate decision makers had fewer hospitalizations, intensive…

Gastric bypass surgery helps severely obese teenagers lose weight and keep it off, according to the first long-term follow-up studies of teenagers who had undergone the procedure 5-12 years earlier. However, the two studies, published in The Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology,…

Scars are often the unwanted and permanent result of wound healing, but University of California, Irvine and University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a natural regeneration process that stimulates scar-free skin repair. Their study results, which appear in Science, point…

The results of their study were scheduled for advance online publication today (Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017) in Neuropsychopharmacology, the official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. “Negative emotional experience leaves a trace in the brain, which makes us more…

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Electron microscopic image of a single human lymphocyte. Credit: Dr. Triche National Cancer Institute Scientists have revealed how cancer cells are able to break free of the physical restraints imposed by their surroundings in order to grow and spread around…

SHANGHAI China plans cuts in major sources of air pollution including sulphur dioxide and will promote more public transport in large cities, the government said late on Thursday, as the country’s north grapples with a lingering smog crisis. The world’s…

A third of hospital trusts in England issued alerts warning they needed urgent action to cope with the pressure of patient numbers last month. In the most serious cases – seven of the 50 trusts that issued alerts – the…

Delays in discharging people from hospital are rising more rapidly in mental health trusts than other parts of the NHS in England, a study shows. NHS England data found a 56% rise in the number of bed days lost to…

Biologists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a new mechanism that likely underlies how we feel force or touch. Their study suggests that “rafts” of fatty lipids on the cell surface act as compartments…

Credit: Wiley Since the first reports on a dramatic increase in microplastic contamination in the sea twenty years ago, research efforts have intensified worldwide. A review in the journal Angewandte Chemie has critically evaluated these studies and concludes that the…

In the past year, people have asked me no fewer than 537 times if I went veggie for my health. “Hell no,” I always said. Until last year, my nickname was “the carnivore.” I polished off T-bones like a champ,…

Few areas of the female anatomy are as elusive—and as highly sought after—as the G-spot. Experts are still hella divided on whether or not the erogenous zone even exists, even though oodles of women would swear on their Lululemons that…

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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA said on Thursday they would appeal the U.S. District Court ruling which banned the two companies from selling their cholesterol drug, Praluent, on grounds of patent infringement. A federal judge had earlier blocked Sanofi…

HONG KONG Hong Kong has confirmed its third case of human bird flu in three weeks, a 62-year-old man who was in critical condition, after a second patient was confirmed to have contracted the same H7N9 strain of the disease…

(Reuters Health) – Parents should feed babies creamy peanut butter or puréed food with nut powder when infants are 4 to 6 months old to help lower the risk of life-threatening allergies, new U.S. guidelines urge. For most babies —…

The heads of three Commons committees have urged the prime minister to find a “political consensus” on funding social care in England before 2020. They say a cross-party review is the best method of finding a “sustainable way” to fund…

Sheryl Newman-Overton went to her gynecologist with bloating complaints The Florida woman was told everything seemed normal following her checkup Five months later, she was told she had Stage IV ovarian cancer The 54-year-old is now encouraging women to learn…

It was an eating plan created specifically to prevent and lower high blood pressure. But according to a panel of health experts, it has become so much more.  The DASH diet is overwhelmingly America’s favorite eating regime, taking the number…

Freely giving researchers the tools and knowledge to tackle rare and orphaned diseases is the mission of UNC Catalyst, a new endeavor the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched with a $2 million grant from the Eshelman…

Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke — even before conception — appears to have a lingering impact that can later impair the brain development of a fetus, researchers at Duke Health report. Using rats in experiments carefully designed to mimic the…

Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and causes long-term adverse consequences in children. However, concerns remain about the safety of iron supplements, particularly for children in malaria-endemic countries lacking adequate access to health services. Researchers…

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