Researchers find obesity linked to reduced blood flow to the brain
A new study from scientists at The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin reveals important findings, indicating that being overweight or obese...
Category: Health
‘Chameleon effect’ and smartphone use: Spontaneous mimicry in social situations
A team of researchers at the University of Pisa has found that the “chameleon effect” applies to people initiating use of their smartphone. In their paper...
How to craft the vaccine message for the undecided
More than 140 million Americans have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. Health care and government leaders hope that tens of millions more will do so.
Attitudes toward vaccination more favorable after J&J vaccine pause
While public awareness of the hold on the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine was very high, researchers of a national poll found no negative impact...
Mitochondrial DNA in cancer: Small genome, big impact
Mitochondria are in vogue, with devotees ranging from exercise physiologists and sports scientists to molecular biologists and clinicians all coalescing around these unusual organelles.
Parents, for your teenager’s sexual health, talk to them about taking risks
For the past year, the pandemic has shaped how young people have been forced to consider risk. Masks, social distancing, hand washing, staying home —these are...
COVID-19 pandemic may produce dramatic changes in life expectancy, birth rates and immigration
Pandemics have historically given rise to major social and demographic transformation. Labor shortages following the Black Plague, for example, resulted in the rise of the middle...
Concussions affect men and women differently: Female athletes need more attention in brain research
News emerged last week that AFLW player Jacinda Barclay, who died last year at age 29 following a short period of mental illness, had abnormalities in...
Malaria vaccine ‘first to meet WHO efficacy target’
A malaria vaccine candidate tested on children in West Africa has shown an efficacy of around 77 percent, say scientists, hailing it as a breakthrough in...
The tuberculosis health crisis in Latin American jails
High rates of tuberculosis (TB) in Latin American prisons are subverting efforts to control the disease in the wider population, and constitute a “health and human...
