Month: February 2017

LuLaRoe, the comfy-chic brand that sells its products through ambassadors, is reportedly facing backlash from thousands of dissatisfied customers who say some of the company’s clothing isn’t up to snuff. Brit + Co reported that a Facebook group of nearly 9,000 such customers have claimed the company’s leggings get rips and tears in them on the first wear. LuLaRoe has claimed there’s only a small number of defective items. 5 MILITARY-INSPIRED MOVES FOR A FULL-BODY

Everyone has bad days. But usually online, we only see people’s good ones. However, we all know that’s not reality — and that’s precisely the inspiring message from Carys Gray, a fitness blogger who’s being praised after sharing an honest makeup-free photo of herself during an eczema flareup. MODEL’S AMAZING JOURNEY FROM PREGNANT TO 6-PACK Slightly different #REALITYCHECK today! ?? We all have good days and we all have bad days? I have a skin

(Reuters Health) – Nursing home residents who have a range of activity options may be more likely to thrive than their peers who don’t have as many choices of things to do, a Swedish study suggests. “The key issue to support resident thriving seems to be that residents have a selection and variety in activities, and that the activities are meaningful to the residents,” said study author Sabine Bjork of the University of Umea. “If

WASHINGTON The White House and Congress lacked agreement on a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare on Tuesday amid signs of growing Republican division on the issue, as President Donald Trump prepared to address lawmakers about his 2017 agenda. Republicans, who control the White House and Congress, are in agreement in their opposition to former Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law but the details are proving knotty. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and

This couple’s baby isn’t even born yet, but it’s ready to rock ‘n’ roll — as was made abundantly clear in the family’s latest ultrasound. Makelle Ahlin and her husband, Jared, from Santaquin, Utah, were anxiously examining their baby’s features on the screen during an ultrasound last week when they saw something unusual: a hand that was flashing the “rock on” sign. “My husband saw it first. He told the ultrasound tech to ‘go back’

Facebook, texting and GPS are commonplace tech that most of us use. But these apps, which help to bring many of us closer together, can be incredibly alienating for the visually impaired and blind.

6. “Isolating myself, not living up to my potential at work due to lack of interest in anything, making self-deprecating jokes. I’ve said many times before, ‘I laugh, so that I don’t cry.’ Unfortunately, it’s all too true.” — Kelly K.

Most of the signs and symptoms of BPH are urinary related. The prostate gland, the size of a walnut, surrounds the urethra the tube in which urine is released through. As the prostate enlarges, this put pressure on the urethra reducing the flow of urine which can result in various symptoms such as:

1. I’m not smart enough: Most people believe formal education is the only education that will help them become more successful. The wealthy respect formal education, but they tap any form of education available to make their dreams a reality, whether that’s interviewing very successful people and learning from them, reading, listening to audio programs and attending seminars.

Finally, EMS found us. After three shocks with an automated external defibrillator, the victim was actually speaking while being loaded into the ambulance. Truly, a beautiful sight to witness. The next day he received a pacemaker, and I’m happy to report, has returned to running, biking, swimming and even skydiving. Isn’t that wonderful?

These are just a few. What would you have added to the countdown? Leave a comment below, OH and if you want to find out about being a Digital Nomad, the sister lifestyle of the “working-from-home” craze, download my ebook below. It’s free. Hallelujah.

It’s time to put a stop to this, and to declare a new way for ourselves as women. It is no longer acceptable to define our worth on the basis of size. It is no longer acceptable to perpetuate the idea, as individuals and as a collective, that we should spend our precious time, money, and energy trying to lose weight and perfect our bodies.

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We all do it. Some of us do it quite loudly. Others do it not once, but several times in a row. Sneezes are everywhere these days, during this, the height of cold and flu season. The chorus of achoos in offices, on buses …

(HealthDay)—For patients with type 2 diabetes, novel oral glucose lowering drugs (GLDs) are associated with reduced risks of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and hypoglycemia, compared with insulin use, …

We all do it. Some of us do it quite loudly. Others do it not once, but several times in a row. Sneezes are everywhere these days, during this, the height of cold and flu season. The chorus of achoos in offices, on buses …

Transgender and gender-fluid teens, particularly those born male, face up to three times more mental and physical abuse at school and at home than their gender-conforming peers, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley. The study is one of the largest national surveys to date of sexual and gender minority adolescents who have suffered multiple forms of victimization, including child abuse, physical and sexual assault and bullying, raising their risk of

A New Hampshire 4-year-old who loves to play is recovering from a rare, serious medical condition that struck her on the playground one day last summer. Last August, Lilly Borden was running around with her mom in the park when she suddenly collapsed. She was unable to move her limbs and then she stopped breathing. “One minute she was running and having fun and the next she’s dying in my arms,” her mother Victoria Barry told

Older people who suffer a hip fracture face a much higher risk of death soon after the injury, but the risk persists over the longer term, a large study indicates. Researchers found that the risk of death among people over 60 nearly tripled during the first year following a hip fracture. However, hip fractures were also still linked to a nearly twofold increased risk of dying eight years or more after the injury. The new

“This is the reality of being a mom,” she wrote. “I’ve been up since 3 am, every time I get Bowie to sleep try to lay him down, he wakes up. He is teething has no clue I have to work today, most days I can work 15 hour days, take care of both boys put some lipstick on deal with it.”

Li writes elliptically about her first forays into fiction, her fraught relationships with her family, her years spent in China, and the aspects of American culture that stood out to her upon immigrating. (The concreteness of “before and after” images in magazines seemed to her like a fairy tale ? aspirational and befuddling.) The stylistic choice is a good one; it matches her experience of depression, which also hit her in fits. It’s reminiscent of

Inflammation is the common denominator of many chronic age-related diseases such as arthritis, gout, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes. But according to a Yale School of Medicine study, even in the absence of a disease, inflammation …

This figures shows a minimally invasive sarcomere length profiler. A laser source continuously sweeps across wavelength and illuminates muscle through a 250-mm-diameter fiber optic probe. The same optical probe collects muscle resonant reflections that are combined with the reference arm and sent to a detector. Resonant reflection spectra are encodedinto interferograms and used to calculate sarcomere length with nanometer resolution and ~1 ms time resolution. Credit: Young et al./Biophysical Journal 2017 A minimally invasive, fiber-optic

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), a procedure to treat liver metastases in patients with colorectal cancer, was found to induce antitumor immune responses in human samples of primary colon tumor, and mice treated with a combination …

Taxing sugary beverages may help reduce calories, but the health benefits may be offset as consumers substitute other unhealthy foods, according to a joint study by researchers at RTI International, Duke University, and the …

Cell “stickiness” could indicate the likelihood that cancer will spread to other parts of the body. University of California researchers found tumour cells that stuck less to surrounding cells are more likely to migrate and invade other tissue. They hope it could one day help identify cancer patients who need aggressive treatment at an early stage. But they warn the laboratory research is at a very early stage and many years from being studied in

We all do it. Some of us do it quite loudly. Others do it not once, but several times in a row. Sneezes are everywhere these days, during this, the height of cold and flu season. The chorus of achoos in offices, on buses …

Libya, in the eyes of many, has become a failed state. Its economy is in tatters with multiple governments competing for control, militias competing for terrain and its shores ground zero for migrants and traffickers. While there have been growing calls for Canada to play an immediate role in addressing the dire state of affairs, Libyan-Canadian Ali Hamza has taken matters into his own hands. His ailing mother and five siblings are trapped in the Ganfouda neighbourhood of Benghazi

A Dalhousie professor wants to make it easier and faster for people in Atlantic Canada to get tested for HIV.  Safe injection sites could be coming to Nova Scotia Point-of-care STI testing fast and unavailable in Atlantic Canada Now, people can only get the tests done in larger urban centres like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, and they sometimes must wait a few weeks to get the results back.   But professor Jacqueline Gahagan, interim director

Nearly 12 per cent of adults in the UK elect themselves for expensive NHS tests  Researchers found that only 1 per cent of them actually have an allergy Instead, a questionnaire could identify allergy risk with 90 per cent accuracy By James Draper For Mailonline Published: 05:12 EST, 28 February 2017 | Updated: 05:25 EST, 28 February 2017 e-mail 8 View comments Millions of people are undergoing pointless allergy tests on the NHS, experts claim.

Implementation of a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform will provide professors Nicolas Doucet and Steven LaPlante of Centre INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier with a powerful new tool for conducting an ambitious research program aimed at identifying new therapeutic molecules. This new platform, funded in part by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund and the Government of Quebec, will enable the two researchers to explore the role of atomic-scale molecular motions in

COLUMBIA, Mo. (Feb. 28, 2017) — Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common form of liver cancer, but treatment options are limited and many patients are diagnosed in late stages when the disease can’t be treated. Now, University of Missouri School of Medicine researchers have developed a new treatment that combines chemotherapy and immunotherapy to significantly slow tumor growth in mice. The researchers believe that with more research, the strategy could be translated to benefit patients

In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive fathers. Eva Ringler and her team were able to show that territorial males care for all clutches inside their territory, even if they had not fertilised a single clutch in the previous weeks. The current study showed, however, that they quickly stop their child-friendly behaviour when they succeed in taking over a new territory. In this case, the

After three rounds of competition — one of which involved a public vote — a software tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Basel to track Zika, Ebola and other viral disease outbreaks in real time has won the first-ever international Open Science Prize. Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist Dr. Trevor Bedford and physicist and computational biologist Dr. Richard Neher of the Biozentum Center for Molecular Life Studies in

WASHINGTON – Inherent features of registries that rely on voluntary participation and self-reported information make them fundamentally unsuitable for determining whether emissions from military burn pits in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations in Southwest Asia caused health problems in service members who were exposed to them, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. While the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit (AHOBP)

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – NeuroVision Imaging LLC (“NeuroVision”) today announced its participation in a new substudy with investigators at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (UC San Diego) and the University of Southern California (USC) to be part of the landmark Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s (or “A4”) clinical trial. The main A4 study is a public-private partnership, funded by the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, Eli Lilly

A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible key to developing a new class of materials and devices to collect, store and manage energy for a variety of applications, a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Yeshiva University has proposed. In a paper published last week in Nature Communications, “Dynamical Majorana edge modes in a broad class of

Athens, Ga. – Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created by ecologists at the University of Georgia and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Their findings, published today in the journal eLife, offer a list of 26 additional potential candidate species–including seven that occur in the continental United States–that the authors suggest should be the first priority for further research. “The biggest

Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered that genetic variation is the reason why some immune systems overreact to viruses. Previous research had already revealed that a gene called Ifitm3 influences how sensitive people are to the influenza virus, with a variant form of the gene making cells more susceptible to viral infection. The new research reveals that Ifitm3 also plays an important role in controlling the extent of the inflammatory response triggered by virus infection.

Older people who suffer a hip fracture face a much higher risk of death soon after the injury, but the risk persists over the longer term, a large study indicates. Researchers found that the risk of death among people over 60 nearly tripled during the first year following a hip fracture. However, hip fractures were also still linked to a nearly twofold increased risk of dying eight years or more after the injury. The new

Juicing may be a popular health fad, but evidence suggests it could actually be detrimental to a good diet. The same goes for coconut oil, which is loaded with saturated fat but has emerged as another dietary craze in the United States. And a gluten-free diet likely has little positive health benefit for people who do not have gluten sensitivity or celiac disease. These conclusions are part of a new review of the latest scientific

New research suggests that the battle against “superbugs” — multidrug-resistant bacteria — should begin in hospital sinks. In the study, scientists found that germs colonize in drainpipes and gradually make their way into sinks. The researchers warned that this is one way hospital patients could be exposed to superbugs. Previous research has shown that patients are dying from multidrug-resistant bacterial infections while in the hospital. More than 32 studies have described the spread of bacteria

In January, just before President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Americans reported feeling more stressed than they had in at least a decade, since the American Psychological Association first began taking the public’s temperature in 2006.   Results of a new poll of more than 1,000 adults show that anxiety levels remained stable for the usual top stress-inducing culprits: money, jobs and the economy.   But since last spring, psychologists say, their clients have been talking

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co said on Monday its lead experimental drug to treat low blood pressure met the main goal of a late-stage study on patients with distributive shock who had not adequately responded to existing treatments. Distributive shock is a state in which the heart is pumping well enough, but the blood is not distributed properly to the vital organs, leading to severe hypotention. The drug, LJPC-501, is La Jolla’s formulation of a natural

An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient’s own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a single treatment, its maker said Tuesday. In all, 82 percent of patients had their cancer shrink at least by half at some point in the study. Its sponsor, California-based Kite Pharma, is racing Novartis AG to become the

A Canadian man’s wife said his vaping days are behind him after an e-cigarette exploded in his pocket on Friday, leaving him with second- and third-degree burns on his leg. Terrence Johnson and Rachel Rex were leaving a restaurant when a loose e-cigarette battery made contact with coins in his pocket, Global News reported. “We were outside of our favorite restaurant, Embarcadero, chatting with our favorite waiter after a great meal and there was an

With so many diet fads around these days, how do you know which ones are actually good for you? In a new review of studies covering about 40 years, researchers attempted to dispel the hype surrounding some popular diet trends and to outline what experts really know about a heart-healthy diet. They presented what might be considered the “best” dietary pattern for reducing the risk of heart disease, and explained why consumers should be wary of

A five-year-old girl died hours after being turned away from her doctor because she was a few minutes late for her appointment. Ellie-May Clark died of an asthma attack after Dr Joanne Rowe, 53, refused to see her – even though she knew the girl was at risk of a life-threatening seizure. The youngster had turned up just four minutes late for her appointment, according to her mother Shanice, but they were sent home and

There’s fit — and then there’s military fit. Prepare to get a military-grade workout with these five exercise moves, inspired by the troops. Just bring your body. No equipment needed. 1. Army CrawlA staple of military bootcamps and mud runs alike, this exercise trains core strength, muscular endurance, and total-body coordination at once, certified strength and conditioning specialist Mike Donavanik, C.S.C.S., C.P.T, told Fox News. Expect everything to burn. Instructions: Lie on the floor on

A Pennsylvania boy recently celebrated his third birthday with a group of local first responders who helped save his life in December. Luke McCabe wore Newtown Square firefighter gear and hung out with the paramedics who responded to his parents’ frantic 911 call, Fox 29 reported. Luke fell into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing for more than five minutes just hours after being released from the hospital for an undisclosed illness, according to Fox 29.

Are you faking it in the bedroom? If so, you are much more likely to cheat on your partner, a study claims. According to a new study, published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, women who regularly fake orgasms were less faithful. The survey studied 138 women and 121 men in heterosexual relationships and asked them about climaxing and cheating. MAKE UP OR BREAK UP? AN EXPERT’S ADVICE FOR ANY SCENARIO While the intensity and

The Barbie boob job was one of the top beauty trends of the ’00s. But it has rapidly fallen out of fashion, with many women now regretting their surgery. According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, breast implant procedures fell by 20 percent last year. IN LATEST BEAUTY TREND, WOMEN ARE TATTOOING FRECKLES … ON THEIR FACES Here, readers reveal how they boobed — with cautionary tales about implants either bursting or going

An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient’s own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a single treatment, its maker said Tuesday. In all, 82 percent of patients had their cancer shrink at least by half at some point in the study. Its sponsor, California-based Kite Pharma, is racing Novartis AG to become the

Many astronauts who come back from space experience poorer vision after flight, some even years after, and researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are working to see why. Brian Samuels, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, and his fellow collaborators from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University recently received a grant to study computational modeling as a method of determining why astronauts who are in space for extended periods

The study was carried out on male Chinchilla rabbits (3-3.5 kg) distributed into 4 groups, 4 per group: control (intact animals) and 3 experimental (rabbits with acute LV overload after 1, 3, and 5 days). The animals were kept and handled in accordance with the Order No. 755 of the Ministry of Health of the USSR (August 12, 1977), and the European Convention for protection of Vertebrates Used in Experiments or with Other Research Purposes

MADISON — The mystery of what controls the range of developmental clocks in mammals — from 22 months for an elephant to 12 days for a opossum — may lie in the strict time-keeping of pluripotent stem cells for each unique species. Developmental clocks are of high importance to regenerative medicine, since many cells types take long periods to grow to maturity, limiting their usefulness to human therapies. The regenerative biology team at the Morgridge

Scientists at Rutgers and other universities have created a new way to identify the state and fate of stem cells earlier than previously possible. Understanding a stem cell’s fate — the type of cell it will eventually become — and how far along it is in the process of development can help scientists better manipulate cells for stem cell therapy. The beauty of the method is its simplicity and versatility, said Prabhas V. Moghe, distinguished

Aurora, Colo. (Feb. 27, 2017) – New research from Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) focused on helmet safety and injury prevention among young skiers and snowboarders. The research found that children who wear a helmet while skiing or snowboarding sustain less severe head injuries and lower overall injury severity, compared to children who do not wear a helmet. The research was published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery in February 2017. The research was led

The nanometric-size islands of magnetic metal sporadically spread between vacuum gaps display unique conductive properties under a magnetic field. In a recent study published in EPJ Plus, Anatoliy Chornous from Sumy State University in Ukraine and colleagues found that the vacuum gaps impede the direct magnetic alignment between the adjacent islands — which depends on the external magnetic field — while allowing electron tunneling between them. Such externally controlled conducting behaviour opens the door for

Fusion research has been dominated by the search for a suitable way of ensuring confinement as part of the research into using fusion to generate energy. In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using

In the modern society, energy generation heavily relies on fossil fuels, which, however, lead to environmental pollution and depletion of non-renewable resources. Photosynthetic organisms such as plants and green algae can transform atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbon storage molecules, especially oils such as triacylglycerols (TAGs), which can be used as biofuels. In this context, microalgae provide advantages of high oil content and growth in extreme environments, including high salinity, temperature, or pH. Nannochloropsis (Figure 1)

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday it would boost employee drug testing and inspections amid rising cases of opioid theft and missing prescriptions, acknowledging gaps that had allowed thousands of doctors, nurses and other staff to go unchecked for signs of illicit drug use. Testifying at a House hearing, Carolyn Clancy, a deputy VA undersecretary for health, said the department was moving aggressively to stem VA drug crimes. She said the VA

There’s no better time than the winter for a warm tropical getaway, and there’s no better destination than the Caribbean islands. Home to some of the most unique and inspiring scenery this side of paradise, the Caribbean is the perfect sensory feast for anyone who needs to hit refresh during the cold winter months.  

Waking up is especially rough for me in winter, as the sun doesn’t rise in Seattle, where I live, until close to 8 a.m. And even then, sunlight isn’t often streaming in the windows. Since I strive to be out of bed by 7 a.m., that means long months of waking up in the dark. But you don’t have to live in the Pacific Northwest to benefit from the Philips Wake-up Light, which gradually increases

“Our first child was conceived using fertility treatments. After his birth, we were pretty much convinced we could not get pregnant without a lot of help. I had an IUD put in as a precaution, but I didn’t like the way it felt, so, I had it removed. I tried to go back on oral contraceptives, but after a series of terrible migraines, I stopped taking birth control. We used condoms intermittently, but one of

A dynamic warmup, specifically, as we’ve read enough research to know that it’s critical for pumping up your muscle activation and slashing your risk of injuries. We each have our own favorites. “I begin every gym workout with at least five—and up to 20—minutes on the rowing machine,” says Marissa Gainsburg, WH associate fitness editor. “It gets all my major muscles going—arms, core, glutes, legs—elevates my heart rate, and in the extended position, doubles as

39,000 people in the UK have pacemakers implanted every year People with pacemakers are advised to stay away from electromagnetic fields  Interference with the devices can cause bradycardia, or a slow heart rate  By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For The Daily Mail Published: 17:54 EST, 27 February 2017 | Updated: 18:23 EST, 27 February 2017 e-mail 2 View comments Thousands of people fitted with pacemakers could be at risk from household devices such as hairdryers,

There is now a less invasive operation for a common knee injury, an anterior cruciate ligament tear — it also halves the recovery time.  Margo Kerr, 54, a loss adjuster from Lanark, had the procedure, as she tells ANGELA EPSTEIN. THE PATIENT Last March I was on a skiing holiday in France when I tumbled over and twisted my left leg. I felt a strange sensation at the front of my knee as if something

Pancakes contain no flour or dairy, which can make PMS symptoms worse The pancakes contain ingredients that have mood and energy-boosting effects The recipe only contains five ingredients and makes six small pancakes  By Imogen Blake For Mailonline Published: 09:38 EST, 27 February 2017 | Updated: 10:04 EST, 27 February 2017 e-mail 81 View comments Pancakes aren’t exactly renowned as a health food – but one recipe claims to help reduce the crippling symptoms of

Martin Kemp (pictured with wife Shirlie Holliman) revealed for the first time today, he suffers from tinnitus When Martin Kemp lies in bed at night, he is never alone. Instead, the former Spandau Ballet star has a constant – and highly irritating – companion, and there’s nothing he can do to escape it. For as Martin reveals for the first time today, he suffers from tinnitus – a relentless ringing or buzzing sound in his head.