Older adults with cognitive impairment are two to three times more likely to fall compared with those without cognitive impairment. What’s more, the increasing use of pain medications for chronic pain by older adults adds to their falls risk. Risks associated with falls include minor bruising to more serious hip fractures, broken bones and even …
Despite a name straight from a Tarantino movie, natural killer (NK) cells are your allies when it comes to fighting infections and cancer. If T cells are like a team of specialist doctors in an emergency room, NK cells are the paramedics: They arrive first on the scene and perform damage control until reinforcements arrive.
The decision of whether to have a child can be hard even under the best of circumstances. For those with a family history of debilitating disease, it’s often gut-wrenching. If only there were some way to answer the all-important question: Will my child be healthy?
Researchers world-wide are focused on clearing the toxic mutant Huntingtin protein that leads to neuronal cell death and systemic dysfunction in Huntington’s disease (HD), a devastating, incurable, progressive neurodegenerative genetic disorder. Scientists in the Buck Institute’s Ellerby lab have found that the targeting the protein called FK506-binding protein 51 or FKBP51 promotes the clearing of …
What is that on Ryan’s nose? Ringworm?
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist who was shot by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ education, has been unveiled as British Vogue’s latest cover star.
Tesla has ditched a feature on its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles because people rarely used it. But it seems that many folks didn’t even know it was there.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta breaks down the technology that allowed for rapid development of safe and effective mRNA COvid-19 vaccines could lead to breakthroughs for other diseases.
Xi Jinping wants China to learn how to make friends and influence people.
Former President Barack Obama explains why as the first Black President, he sometimes felt the need to hold back when addressing race and racism in America.