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Nobody ever said feet were supposed to smell like Chanel No. 5. And even the most well groomed tootsies are going to be a little reekish after they’ve been stuffed in a pair of leather boots all day. But if you catch a whiff of something foul each time you unlace your kicks, then we need to warn you: What you’re smelling is the presence of an overgrowth of bacteria or fungus on your feet. Time to figure out what’s

This article was written by Philip Picardi and repurposed with permission from Refinery29. Perhaps the cruelest reality of holiday dressing is that you’re constantly finding yourself in a skirt—in the dead of winter. This is less than desirable for many reasons, especially when pesky red bumps and dry skin come into play. But you don’t want to hide behind tights for every party, either.  Nobody understands this conundrum better than makeup artists and self-tanners. We called

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Sirnaomics, Inc. (www.sirnaomics.com) and its affiliate Suzhou Sirnaomics Pharmaceutics, Co. Ltd., (www.suzhou.sirnaomics.com), together with its partner Guangzhou Xiangxue Pharmaceutical, Co. Ltd., (SZSE: 300147), have formally submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application to the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for STP705, an anti-fibrosis RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic for prevention and treatment of human skin hypertrophic scars. STP705 consists of two small interfering RNA (siRNA) sequences (targeting two genes critically involved in fibrogenesis) packaged in

People who suffer breathing and heart rate abnormalities, called obstructive sleep apnea, are likely to develop diabetes, and the risk increases if they have a hereditary proclivity. Sleep apnea is a disorder in which the airways become blocked and cause interruptions consecutive to inhaling for several seconds, usually the tongue prevents the passage of air and is needed to snore to wake up and breathe again; however, this does not mean that all the people

Anyone who has worn a cast knows that rebuilding muscle strength once the cast is removed can be difficult. Now researchers at the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University have found that the mind is critical in maintaining muscle strength following a prolonged period of immobilization and that mental imagery may be key in reducing the associated muscle loss. Strength is controlled by a number of factors—the most studied by far is

(Medical )—A University of Manchester scientist has discovered that very small changes in the level of acidity in blood may have a detrimental impact on the health of patients with kidney disease. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is common in the UK. It is estimated that about one in five men and one in four women between the ages of 65 and 74 has some degree of CKD. The leading single cause of CKD is diabetes

Think of someone you admire — a talented artist or scientist, entrepreneur or adventurer. Do you know what their great regret in life is? What advice would they share about parenting, or aging, or finding fulfillment? What book has had the greatest impact on their life? Chances are you don’t know. Which is why we’ve created Sophia, a project to collect life lessons from fascinating people. Here’s how it works. We’re conducting hundreds of long-form

TxCell SA (FR0010127662 – TXCL), a biotechnology company developing innovative, cost-effective, personalized T cell immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announces today a further enhancement to the development of its lead product Ovasave(R) for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The collaboration, option, development and license agreement between TxCell and Ferring International Center SA (Ferring) has been assigned to Trizell

The menstrual cycle appears to have an effect on nicotine cravings, according to a new study by Adrianna Mendrek of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal. “Our data reveal that incontrollable urges to smoke are stronger at the beginning of the follicular phase that begins after menstruation. Hormonal decreases of oestrogen and progesterone possibly deepen the withdrawal syndrome and increase activity of neural circuits associated with craving,”

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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug that may be help some of the millions of Americans resolving to lose weight this year. The daily injectable drug, liraglutide, is part of a new class of diabetes medicines that prompt the pancreas to make extra insulin after meals. Novo Nordisk first got approval to sell liraglutide five years ago as a diabetes therapy, brand name Victoza. The new, higher-dose prescription product, Saxenda, is specifically

Sometimes, it can feel like the only thing Pinterest is good for is helping you waste a colossal amount of time. But if you know what to pin, the social network can also help you drop a size. Here, 10 infographics that definitely deserve a spot on your “Skinny Jeans, Here I Come!” board. If you want extra info on any of them, just click the chart to go to a story with more details.

Guys mastered the art of the hand job back before they ever had their first girlfriend. So as it turns out, they critique women’s attempts pretty, well, hard. We asked nine guys what they really think of hand jobs—and what they had to say was surprising, funny, and an oddly helpful lesson in anatomy. For the sake of your worn-out wrist (and love of all things hilarious!), you have to read their responses. “A hand

It’s basically written in the mother-daughter code that you won’t always love your mom’s look. Maybe it’s her obsession with kitten sweatshirts, her dated ‘do, or her “pilgrim Addams family outfits,” like Kim Kardashian recently labeled Kris Jenner’s style. Or maybe it’s just her propensity for preppy sweater sets, pearls, and khakis. Whatever it is, you’re occasionally going to decide that her style needs a serious upgrade. Unfortunately, actually making over your mom is a

Children who have access to tablets or smartphones in their bedrooms get less sleep than children who do not have the devices with them at night, a US study said Monday. The findings in the January 5 edition of the journal Pediatrics show that having a so-called “small screen” within reach was slightly worse than a television set when it came to sleep deprivation in a group of 2,000 middle school kids. Overall, those with

China has abolished price controls on tobacco leaf, the last agricultural product to have limits, the country’s top economic planner said as authorities seek to give the market a greater economic role. But tobacco leaf prices are only a small factor in the cost of cigarettes—a state monopoly in China—so the move is unlikely to have a significant effect on smokers. China is the world’s biggest cigarette market and government efforts to curb smoking have

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Advocates of workplace wellness initiatives are hoping 2015 will be the year that standup desks, historically favored by great minds from Leonardo da Vinci to Virginia Woolf, will reconfigure the modern cubicle. Some 50 to 70 percent of people spend six or more hours each day sitting, according to a 2012 study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Fitness experts say office workers are particularly susceptible to what has

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A city in central India has elected the country’s first transgender mayor, nine months after a court ruled that transgender be recognized as a legal third gender, local media reported. Madhu Kinnar, 35, won the mayoral election in Raigarh in the mineral-rich state of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, beating her opponent from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by more than 4,500 votes, the Press Trust of India reported in

Archives of Public Health 2015, 73:1 doi:10.1186/2049-3258-73-1 Published: 5 January 2015

/ no comments President Obama in September set a formidable goal for American industry and agriculture — reduce greenhouse gases by a quarter in 10 years. But several states are ahead of the game.

i i U.S. soldiers at Long Binh base in South Vietnam line up to give urine samples at a heroin detection center before departing for the United States. About 20 percent of soldiers said they were addicts, but most didn’t continue drug use back home. AP hide caption itoggle caption AP U.S. soldiers at Long Binh base in South Vietnam line up to give urine samples at a heroin detection center before departing for the

The Food and Drug Administration approved 41 first-of-a-kind drugs in 2014, including a record number of medicines for rare diseases, pushing the agency’s annual tally of drug approvals to its highest level in 18 years. FDA drug approvals are considered a barometer of industry innovation and the federal government’s efficiency in reviewing new therapies. Last year’s total was the most since the all-time high of 53 drugs approved in 1996. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 2014 approval

Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to research by City College of New York physicists led by Dr. Vinod Menon. In a pioneering study, Professor Menon and his team were able to discover half-light, half-matter particles in atomically thin semiconductors (thickness ~ a millionth of a single sheet of paper) consisting of two-dimensional (2D) layer of molybdenum and

TOKYO (Reuters) – Fukushima rice passed Japan’s radiation checks for the first time since the 2011 nuclear disaster that prompted international alarm over the region’s produce, a prefectural official said. Fukushima official Tsuneaki Oonami said about 360,000 tonnes of rice, nearly all of last year’s harvest, had been checked and none had tested above the 100 becquerels per kilogram limit set by the government. “The fact that the amount of rice that does not pass

OMAHA, Neb. –  An American health care worker who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone arrived at a Nebraska hospital Sunday for observation. The patient landed in Omaha on Sunday afternoon. Paramedics wearing full-body protective gear drove the patient to the Nebraska Medical Center, which has a specialized biocontainment unit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dr. Phil Smith, who leads the unit, said the patient is neither ill nor contagious. He said

The menstrual cycle appears to have an effect on nicotine cravings, according to a new study by Adrianna Mendrek of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal. “Our data reveal that incontrollable urges to smoke are stronger at the beginning of the follicular phase that begins after menstruation. Hormonal decreases of oestrogen and progesterone possibly deepen the withdrawal syndrome and increase activity of neural circuits associated with craving,”

By Kevin Murphy (Reuters) – An American health care worker possibly exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone arrived at a hospital in Omaha on Sunday for evaluation and any necessary treatment, an official said. The patient was taken by ambulance from the Omaha airport to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where three other patients were treated last year, said Taylor Wilson, hospital spokesman. Wilson would not disclose the age or gender of

Ann Arbor, MI, January 5, 2015 — Night shift work has been consistently associated with higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer. In 2007 the World Health Organization classified night shift work as a probable carcinogen due to circadian disruption. In a study in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that women working rotating night shifts for five or more years appeared to have a modest increase in

IMAGE: A ‘mouse barn’ such as the one shown here at the University of Utah is the heart of a new, sensitive toxicity test that allows house-type mice to compete in… view more Credit: Douglas Cornwall, University of Utah SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 5, 2015 – When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup was more toxic than sucrose or

Research Marja Bosaeus, Aysha Hussain, Therese Karlsson, Louise Andersson, Lena Hulthén, Cecilia Svelander, Ann-Sofie Sandberg, Ingrid Larsson, Lars Ellegård and Agneta Holmäng Nutrition Journal 2015, 14:1 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-14-1 Published: 2 January 2015 Abstract (provisional) Background Fish and meat intake may affect gestational weight gain, body composition and serum fatty acids. We aimed to determine whether a longitudinal dietary intervention during pregnancy could increase fish intake, affect serum phospholipid fatty acids, gestational weight gain and body composition changes

Joe Cocker, the Sheffield singer who died on December 22, will always be remembered as one of the most searing, unforgettable voices of the past forty years. Ten of his best songs can be found here. “Mad dog” Cocker embodied the quintessential hard-living rock star lifestyle: he drank and smoked hard and “dived in head first” with drugs for decades. Public grief about sudden or early celebrity deaths can see public hunger for information about

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Early use of available heart failure drugs slows the progressive decline in heart function before symptoms are apparent in boys and young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to a new study published online by The Lancet Neurology. Dr. Subha Raman, a cardiologist and professor at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, led a team of DMD experts at multiple sites in a clinical trial that tested the combination of

December 29, 2014 – Recovery of blinking function is a critical but easily overlooked outcome after facial transplantation, according to a report in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). In their study, ASPS member surgeon Eduardo DeJesus Rodriguez, MD, DDS, and colleagues highlight the need for careful surgical planning and technique to achieve optimal voluntary and reflex blinking–essential to protect long-term

IMAGE: NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of Tropical Storm Jangmi over the central and southern Philippines on Dec. 29 at 5:05 UTC. view more Credit: Image Credit: NASA/NRL NASA’s Aqua satellite saw Tropical Storm Jangmi as it moved through the central and southern Philippines on Dec. 29. Jangmi is known locally in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Seniang. Many warnings remain in effect as Jangmi continues moving west toward the South China Sea. On Dec.

IMAGE: NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of Kate on Dec. 29 at 8:15 UTC and showed bands of thunderstorms were spiraling into the center of the storm, despite having weakened… view more Credit: Image Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kate peaked in strength on Dec. 28, and NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the storm on Dec. 29 as it began weakening over the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean. On Dec. 28 at 2100 UTC

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and metabolic syndrome are major public health problems in the USA and worldwide. There is promising evidence of Yoga, a popular mind-body practice, on improving cardio-metabolic health. This review helps strengthen the evidence base for yoga as a potentially effective therapy for such conditions. The results support earlier reviews on the positive benefits of yoga for CVD prevention. The review demonstrates the potential of yoga to have an impact on concrete, physiological

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2015, 12:1 doi:10.1186/1743-0003-12-1 Published: 5 January 2015

The ball has dropped. Confetti is everywhere. And depending on how you spent last night, you may be dealing with a pretty brutal hangover right now. You know what that means: New Year’s Eve is over, and now it’s time to focus on your resolutions. Here at Women’s Health, we try to make decisions that will keep us happy and fit all year long—but that doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement. Check out some of the

Work hard, get sweaty, and get done in 15 minutes. Sound like the perfect workout plan for you? We thought so. If you’re ready to kick off 2015 with fresh strengthening moves that tone your muscles in a hurry, look no further. Simply check out these 15 workouts that you can crank out in 900 seconds (a.k.a. 15 minutes), and click the graphics for full how-tos for each move. So what are you waiting for? It’s

It’s 8 p.m. You feel hungry, but you might just be bored. You’re not really sure, so you reach for the fridge door just to check out your options—and then she stares you down. You know who she is. The hot, perfectly fit supermodel you taped up there to motivate you to skip the after-dinner snacks in the name of slimming down. You step away from the refrigerator, only to open the door a few

Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) Dr. David CollingridgeTHOUGHT LEADERS SERIES…insight from the world’s leading experts Please can you give an overview of the Medical Innovation Bill tabled by Lord Saatchi? The intention of the Medical Innovation Bill is to encourage and support doctors to explore new medicines for their patients when they believe existing options are no longer achieving good outcomes. The Bill’s supporters believe it will stimulate responsible innovation in treatment

Face transplantation can dramatically enhance a patient’s quality of life after severe facial trauma, but lack of attention to eyelid function and vision can leave patients with impaired vision, corneal exposure, eyelid retraction that occurs when the upper or lower eyelid pulls away from the eyeball, and other eyelid-related complications. A new retrospective study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center makes the case for careful blink assessment in planning facial transplant procedures, as

December 29, 2014 – For women who have undergone mastectomy, breast reconstruction using the patient’s own tissues–rather than implants–provides higher satisfaction scores, reports a study in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). But the findings may at least partly reflect differences in the characteristics of women choosing different options for breast reconstruction, according to the study by plastic surgeon Dr. Yassir

SAN ANTONIO (Dec. 29, 2014) — A study released Dec. 23 describes a never-before-seen mechanism by which a bacterial toxin leads to severe inflammation in asthma and other acute and chronic pulmonary diseases. Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio said the discovery could result in development of therapeutic strategies that improve health in individuals who suffer from airway diseases. The offending party is the Mycoplasma pneumoniae Community Acquired Respiratory

In 1982, the gene TRK was shown to cause a small percentage of colon cancers. In 2013 and 2014, next-generation sequencing of tumor samples found fusions of the TRK family of genes in at least 11 tumor types, including lung, breast, melanoma and more. Now, a recent article in the journal Cancer Discovery describes clinical trials at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and elsewhere that match drugs to this long-overlooked oncogene, offering targeted treatment

December 29, 2014 – Performed as part of body contouring procedures in patients with massive weight loss, a procedure called medial thigh lift carries a substantial risk of complications, reports a study in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). “Wound complications in medial thighplasty are common, but most are minor and can be managed without reoperation,” according to the new research

OMAHA, Neb. – An American health care worker who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone arrived at a Nebraska hospital Sunday for observation. The patient landed in Omaha on Sunday afternoon. Paramedics wearing full-body protective gear drove the patient to the Nebraska Medical Center, which has a specialized biocontainment unit. Dr. Phil Smith, who leads the unit, said the patient is neither ill nor contagious. He said the patient

Get ready for the swarm at your favorite gym or fitness studio. It’s a given that January will bring in a new crop of health club neophytes as well as bring back seasoned gym-goers who may have taken a holiday hiatus. If you’re feeling cramped, don’t worry. By the end of the month, many newbies will have given up from not seeing results fast enough, loss of motivation or overdoing it and injuring themselves. However,

Malaria Journal 2015, 14:1 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-14-1 Published: 5 January 2015

Nutrition Journal 2015, 14:3 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-14-3 Published: 5 January 2015

i i Kwesi Bido walks through part of the electronic waste dump at Agbogbloshie, in Accra, Ghana. Some of the digital waste comes from developed countries, where it was supposed to be recycled — but instead was illegally shipped here to be dumped. Courtesy Yepoka Yeebo hide caption itoggle caption Courtesy Yepoka Yeebo Kwesi Bido walks through part of the electronic waste dump at Agbogbloshie, in Accra, Ghana. Some of the digital waste comes from

A new study is raising alarm about the ease teens with histories of mental illness or suicidal acts have to guns in their homes. The study found that 41 percent of teens in a home with a firearm had easy access to the weapon and that the percentage was the same among teens who suffer from mental health problems or who tried to kill themselves or thought about it. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dr. Joseph Simonetti, of

A British nurse with Ebola was fighting for her life Sunday as two health workers, who also spent time in Sierra Leone, were placed under observation in the US and Germany. On Saturday, the London hospital where nurse Pauline Cafferkey is being treated, said her health had taken a turn for the worse. “The condition of Pauline Cafferkey has gradually deteriorated over the past two days and is now critical,” the Royal Free Hospital said.

I went sky diving I went rocky mountain climbing I went two point seven seconds On a bull named Fu Man Chu And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter And gave forgiveness I’d been denying And he said some day I hope you get the chance To live like you were dying -Tim McGraw It was December 2, the day after I had gastric sleeve weight loss surgery. A young doctor stopped in my

HEIDELBERG, 30 December 2014 – The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease occurring in West Africa may have originated from contact between humans and virus-infected bats, suggests a study led by researchers from the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin, Germany. The report, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, identifies insectivorous free-tailed bats as plausible reservoirs and expands the range of possible Ebola virus sources to this type of bats. The results also reveal that larger wildlife are

HEIDELBERG, 30 December 2014 – Researchers in the United States have identified a molecular network that comprises many of the genes previously shown to contribute to autism spectrum disorders. The findings provide a map of some of the crucial protein interactions that contribute to autism and will help uncover novel candidate genes for the disease. The results are published in Molecular Systems Biology. “The study of autism disorders is extremely challenging due to the large

IMAGE: Left: The crystal structure of a porous iron carboxylate MOF (iron octahedra, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen atoms are in green, red, black and white, respectively); Center: Binding of a NO… view more Credit: Serre/Institut Lavoisier WASHINGTON D.C., December 30, 2014 – A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles’ Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to stably gift-wrap a chemical gas known as nitric oxide within metal-organic frameworks. Such

IMAGE: MU researchers have developed a credible tool to assess whether medical students have learned and are applying specific behaviors that characterize patient-centered care. view more Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health System COLUMBIA, Mo. — When health care providers take patients’ perspectives into consideration, patients are more likely to be actively engaged in their treatment and more satisfied with their care. This is called patient-centered care, and it has been the central focus of the curriculum at

(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – December 29, 2014) An international research team has shown how changes in a flu virus that has plagued Chinese poultry farms for decades helped create the novel avian H7N9 influenza A virus that has sickened more than 375 people since 2013. The research appears in the current online early edition of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The results underscore the need for continued surveillance of flu viruses

IMAGE: This is Clay Voorhees of Michigan State University. view more Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. — Companies rarely acknowledge customers who fill out those ubiquitous satisfaction surveys. But a sincere, well-timed “thank you” can reap huge rewards, finds first-of-its-kind research led by a Michigan State University marketing scholar. According to the study, which focused on an upscale sit-down restaurant, satisfied customers who received an acknowledgement of their comments from the company president increased

Chicken meat is an extremely popular and affordable source of animal protein, and each Australian now consumes approximately 43 kilograms of it every year. But chicken is also uniquely prone to making people ill, due to contamination with bacteria. Most people would know chicken meat can cause Salmonella infections, but there is a lesser known yet more common bacteria that also loves chicken meat and can make you ill. Campylobacter actually causes very similar clinical

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An American health care worker who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone has arrived at a Nebraska hospital for observation. The patient landed in Omaha Sunday afternoon. Paramedics wearing full-body protective gear drove the patient to the Nebraska Medical Center, which has a specialized biocontainment unit. Dr. Phil Smith, who leads the unit, says the patient is neither ill nor contagious, and that “all appropriate

IMAGE: Schematic illustration of the single-particle spectra modified by spin-orbit coupling. The Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling can lead to a degenerate ring in momentum space for the lower branch of the single-particle… view more Credit: ©Science China Press Ultracold atomic gases have been widely considered as ideal platforms for quantum simulation. Thanks to the clean environment and the highly tunable parameters in these systems, many interesting physical models can be simulated using cold atomic gases, and various

A new study by researchers in Canada supports the hypothesis that lung cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma, may spread through the airways. The putative occurrence of intrapulmonary aerogenous metastasis of lung cancer has staging, management, and prognostic implications. Lung cancer is the most common and most lethal cancer worldwide. Its prognosis remains poor: The 5-year survival rate is 6-18%. Adenocarcinoma has surpassed squamous cell carcinoma as the leading histologic type, accounting for 30% of all cases of

In a world-first achievement published in Nature, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the National Institute of Material Science and the University of Tokyo, have developed a new hydrogel whose properties are dominated by electrostatic repulsion, rather than attractive interactions. According to Yasuhiro Ishida, head of the Emergent Bioinspired Soft Matter Research Team, the work began from a surreptitious discovery, that when titanate nano-sheets are suspended

OTJIWARONGO, Namibia (30 Dec. 2014) – Findings from a recently published research study confirm what many scientists have long suspected. A high incidence of neurological disorders among captive felids in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including demyelination of the spinal cord, correlates to copper and Vitamin A deficiencies, which is attributable to meat diets not properly supplemented nor based on mixed, whole carcass prey. The study was conducted by the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (CVRL)

A drug combination of artemisinin-naphthoquine should be considered for the treatment of children with uncomplicated malaria in settings where multiple parasite species cause malaria according to Tim Davis from University of Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia and colleagues in new research published in this week’s PLOS Medicine. Malaria is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease that kills approximately 600,000 people every year. Several different parasite species cause malaria and in some settings, such as Papua New Guinea, two

Neonatal HBV vaccination reduces the risk of liver cancer and other liver diseases in young adults in China, according to a study published by Chunfeng Qu, Taoyang Chen, Yawei Zhang and colleagues from the Cancer Institute Hospital at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, China, and Yale School of Public Health and School of Medicine, USA in this week’s PLOS Medicine. The researchers report long-term outcomes from the Qidong Hepatitis B

Not to brag (okay, kind of), but I used to have a sick wardrobe. Before I married my husband Chris, I had a new outfit for every occasion—weddings, parties, date nights. I even bought hot new underwear on the regular. Sometimes, I’d really splash out: I once blew half a paycheck on a new dress so that I could look cute for a special date he had planned. (I still wear the dress, so I