Day January 31, 2017

Jerri Kurdila and Eric Amshoff had both worked at Duke Energy in Monroe, Ohio, for years. She as a gas coordinator and he as a field technician for the power company. “I knew he worked down the hall, enough to say hi,” Ms. Kurdila…

Tom Brady wasn’t built for football. Stocky and a little slow at the 2000 scouting combine, the quarterback was picked up in the sixth round of the draft and promptly relegated to the Patriots bench. Seventeen years later and about…

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Children’s BMI can predict future weight Children suffer increasingly from obesity both in Sweden and globally. A European research team – including a researcher from Halmstad University – has mapped younger children’s health in eight countries. The results show that…

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A new study has estimated the financial impact of poor mental health on the West Midlands region to be over £12 billion per year, including nearly £2 billion a year as a direct cost to the NHS – equivalent to…

Sponsored Content by Bruker BioSpin – NMR, EPR and Imaging NMR and metabolic phenotyping: an interview with Dr Hartmut Schäfer Please can you give an overview of the Phenome Center Birmingham? The Phenome Center Birmingham is a large, state-of-the-art, £8M…

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The British Heart Foundation discovers how the daily grind is driving us chocolate crazy for its DECHOX fundraiser this March New statistics released as part of the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) DECHOX campaign show the true extent of “cake culture”…

Q. I am trying to lose weight and have lost a stone so far. But I need to lose another seven. I’m 42, 5ft 7in and weigh 18st 1lb. It’s a slow process but I’m told that doing it slowly…

The list is long. From the common cold and influenza to HIV and measles, and from Zika to some cancers, all are caused by viruses — tiny packages of either DNA or RNA that wear a protein coat. They shouldn’t…

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is giving researchers a first look at the early stages of brain development in patients with Fragile X syndrome, a disorder that causes mild to severe intellectual disability…

Despite decades of malaria research, the disease still afflicts hundreds of millions and kills around half a million people each year – most of them children in tropical regions. Part of the problem is that the malaria parasite is a…

A 39-year-old man with cystic fibrosis (CF) made history by becoming the first person to receive human adult stem cells in a new research study that researchers hope will someday lead to the development of a therapy to reduce the…

Using immature stem cells to create a miniature model of the gut in the laboratory, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh have determined how infection-causing enteroviruses enter the intestine. Enteroviruses cause…

Previous studies have shown that adults and young people who are physically active have a lower risk of developing depression. But the same effect has not been studied in children – until now. Results from a new study are showing…

To generate swarms of new viral particles, a virus hijacks a cell into producing masses of self-assembling cages that are then loaded with the genetic blueprint for the next infection. But the picture of how that DNA is loaded into…

The sports world has not always been considered the most inviting place for those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Yet, college athletes can make powerful allies for the LGBT community, given their visibility and status on campus,…

TOKYO Japan must make public places in Tokyo smoke-free by the time it hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics or risk falling afoul of International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules that call for a healthy games, activists said on Tuesday. Japan’s health…

In most species, males evolve flashy, eye-catching traits to beat male competition and grab the attention of female mates, while females are drab and less conspicuous.   But in some species females including lizards, crustaceans and primates, have evolved eye-catching features…

Gut bacteria — a few years ago most people would have associated these words with a stomach bug. But we now know the bacteria lying deep in the labyrinth of the gut (and known collectively as the microbiome) could hold…

I used to smoke 30 a day (though I haven’t touched a cigarette for 14 years). This led to COPD and it’s getting worse. I’m on several inhalers and pills to remove phlegm, and eight cylinders of oxygen a fortnight.…

Acne is pegged as a teenage issue that you grow out of.  But for millions of people, that is not the case. More than 18 million Britons and 60 million Americans suffer the debilitating skin condition at some stage in…

ZURICH Novartis has broaded the indications for its Votubia drug, the company said on Tuesday, when the European Union approved its use to treat refractory partial-onset seizures in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex. Votubia is the first adjunctive treatment approved…

A chunk of the microbial mat from Hot Lake that is under study by PNNL researchers. The lake is near Oroville, Wash., close to the Canadian border. Credit: PNNL Constant jostling for precious commodities—money, oil, high-speed Internet access, our morning…

Mathias Wilhelm, Professor Bernhard Kuster and Daniel Paul Zolg (from left to right). Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) report on the synthesis of a library of more than 330,000 reference peptides…

Stand tall with feet close together, knees soft, and gaze at eye level. Grab one handle in each hand, and hold them together, just above waist height. Keeping the elbows tight to the ribs, move your hands in a figure-eight…

The rapid weight loss you’ll experience at the start of this diet might be helpful in the motivation department, but you’re not dropping fat from the get-go, says Clark. “Carbs are stored with water, so when people ditch carbs they…

A fan tried to propose to his girlfriend last night…and then this happened: pic.twitter.com/tCgr0A3ItE — Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) January 22, 2017 While this disastrous proposal was most likely staged, it wouldn’t be the first “I do” moment to go wrong. These…

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said on Monday a U.S. court rejected four of the Israel-based drugmaker’s claims of patent infringement on its top-selling multiple sclerosis treatment. The rejection comes four months after U.S. patent officials invalidated three patents on its…

Competing interests This study was supported by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) (#1021347). Woolworths Limited provided sponsorship in the form of food vouchers for participants. Village cinemas donated cinema vouchers and Carman’s…

Throughout our lives, our genes are affected by the way we live. Diet, exercise, age and diseases create imprints that are stored in something called methylome. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden…

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) assessed the benefit of newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Without treatment most young children with SCID die within 1 to 2 years, as their immune response fails.…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a wearable, wireless sensor that can monitor a person’s skin hydration for use in applications that need to detect dehydration before it poses a health problem. The device is lightweight, flexible and…

“Smoking causes wrinkles that age you prematurely. What are cigarettes costing you?” “150 minutes of exercise a week reduces the risk of cancer.” “2,000 calories a day is all most adults should eat.” We hear so many well-meaning and well-researched…

The wear and tear of life takes a cumulative toll on our bodies. Our organs gradually stiffen through fibrosis, which is a process that deposits tough collagen in our body tissue. Fibrosis happens little by little, each time we experience…

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What if doctors could look into a crystal ball and predict which of their patients might be at risk of getting sick enough to go to the emergency room? What if they could use that prediction to help patients get…