Credit: Gustavo Fring from Pexels School uniform policies could be restricting young people from being active, particularly primary school-aged girls, new research suggests. The University of Cambridge study used data about the physical activity participation of more than a million 5–17-year-olds internationally. It found that in countries where a majority …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Processing times for complaints against drug companies suspected of having breached their industry code of practice have more than tripled in a nearly two-decade period, an investigation by The BMJ has found. Data analysis by Shai Mulinari at Lund University and Piotr Ozieranski at the University …

Construction and application of causality-enriched epigenetic clocks. Credit: Nature Aging (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43587-023-00557-0 What causes us to age? New “clocks” developed by researchers may help point to the answers. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, unveil a new form …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children in detention and after they return to the community require better quality health care due to their ongoing, complex health needs, a new report has found. Researchers from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), the Justice Health Group at Curtin University and the FXB (François-Xavier Bagnoud) …

Understanding the exposure risk of aerosolized Coccidioides in a Valley fever endemic metropolis. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51407-x A new study of Valley fever spores collected from air filters around the Phoenix metro area is helping a research team led by scientists from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), …

LH3 (procollagen-lysine, 2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase 3) deposition increases in the medial aortic layer with age and Sox9 (SRY-box transcription factor 9) expression. A, Immunohistochemistry of Sox9, p16 (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A), and LH3 staining in the aortic medial layer. Positive staining is shown in brown. Red arrows highlight the positive staining …

Mouse model of colostrum deprivation. Colostrum-deprived pups were cross-fostered at birth by dams that were no longer providing colostrum ((postnatal day (PND) = 9); no colostrum dam, orange). Control groups were cross-fostered at birth by dams that just delivered (Day 0) (Ctrl dam, black). Credit: Allergy (2024). DOI: 10.1111/all.16054 The first form …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Vitamin patches are trending on social media and advertised in posts and podcasts. With patches marketed for sleep, detox, immunity and hangovers, they are being talked up as near magical fix-all stickers. Manufacturers claim they are easy-to-use, convenient and ethical when compared with other types of …

Schematic diagram highlighting proposed mechanism of action of CAR peptide. Systemically administered CAR peptide associates with the HSPG SDC4, which is restricted to epidermis and blood vessels in mouse skin wounds. CAR induces SDC4-dependent activation of the small GTPase ARF6, via the guanine nucleotide exchange factor CYTH2, to promote SDC4-, …

UW researchers created a sleeve for a pacemaker using piezoelectric materials, which generate electricity when mechanical pressure is applied. Credit: iMatter Lab & Bioengineering Department/University of Washington Heartbeats could one day help power something beyond hearts. A pacemaker is a device that helps regulate abnormal heart rates using electrical pulses. …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Twelve years—that’s how much time the average American spends on their smartphone in a lifetime. It’s the result of four hours and 37 minutes a day, every day, in screen time use. That’s one full day of time spent onscreen each week, six days every month …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Philadelphia police officers Kenneth Harper and Jennifer Torres were in their patrol car sitting at a red light when a call came in over the 911 radio dispatch. “This job says ‘female complaint in reference to dispute with daughter, suffers from bipolar, infant on location,'” Harper …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sitting in his Capitol Hill apartment, Russ Welti knew the answer to his problem. Still, he felt stuck, as a familiar sensation weighed on him. Even in adolescence, he had faced depression. Now at 63, he was retired and taking care of aging parents, facing mobility …

Australian researchers may have found a breakthrough treatment for lupus. In a study published in Nature Communications on Feb. 6, scientists at Monash University revealed that they were able to “fix” defective cells that can cause lupus, an autoimmune disease. They accomplished this by infusing human cells — called regulatory …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine your healthy child gets sick—so sick that you take them to the emergency department. You are shocked to find out that their liver is failing, and they will need a transplant to survive. Studies show that their chances of survival are higher the faster they …

People are curious about heart health — and for good reason. Heart disease remains the leading killer of men and women in the U.S. — each year, around 695,000 people die from cardiovascular conditions, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For American Heart Month, Dr. Martha Gulati, …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A research paper published in Nature Cancer details new insights into the role of efferocytosis—the burying of dead cells—in pancreatic cancer that spreads to the liver. Liver metastasis occurs in 40–50% of people with pancreatic ductal adenosarcoma (PDAC), and there are currently no effective therapies to …

This image provided by the Alaska Department of Health shows several Alaskapox lesions. “A” is a lesion about 10 days after symptom onset, and “B” is the same lesion two days later. “C” is a lesion about 5 days after symptom onset, about 1.2 cm across. “D” is a lesion …

Credit: Wikimedia Commons The Society of Neurolnterventional Surgery (SNIS) is acknowledging middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) as a beneficial adjunctive treatment for chronic subdural hematoma in light of new research. The minimally invasive MMAE procedure significantly reduced the failure rates of traditional surgical and non-surgical management strategies without an increased …