Brain’s memory center stays active during ‘infantile amnesia’
One trait shared by all humans is that they don’t remember specific life episodes that occurred before the age of 3 or 4. Many scientists have...
Category: Health
COVID-19 has slowed medical innovations, study shows
In a new study for the journal Surgical Innovation, Associate Professor Toby Gordon of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School addresses the ways in which the...
Alarmist reporting on COVID-19 heightens anxieties and drives vaccine hesitancy
From an ethics perspective, it has been a bad couple of weeks for media coverage of COVID-19.
Drug could be promising new option against eczema
A pill called upadacitinib, already approved for treating rheumatoid arthritis, might also ease another common immunological condition—eczema.
In utero exposure to tiny air pollution particles is linked to asthma in preschoolers
Women who were highly exposed to ultra-fine particles in air pollution during their pregnancy were more likely to have children who developed asthma, according to a...
Too much TV may dull the aging brain
Mom always said too much TV would rot your brain, and as with so many other things it appears she was right.
Faulty gene could raise vulnerability to asbestos-linked cancer
Mutations in a certain gene may increase a person’s risk for an aggressive asbestos-related cancer called malignant mesothelioma, a new study claims.
Why do we get shots in the arm? It’s all about the muscle
Millions have rolled up their sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine, but why haven’t they rolled up their pants legs instead? Why do we get most shots...
Research finds decline in drug overdose mortality rates in eastern Kentucky counties
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UK CERH) and the Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis at the National Opinion...
Intensive blood pressure lowering cuts major adverse cardiovascular events, mortality
Intensive blood pressure treatment targeting systolic blood pressure
