Category: 5. Health

Mariah Bianchi describes how her own case of whooping cough caused the death of her newborn son, at … [+] a news conference by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Copyright 2010 AP. All rights reserved. Pertussis (whooping cough) has surged this year,… Continue Reading

How do we distinguish threat from safety? It’s a question important not just in our daily lives, but for human disorders linked with fear of others, such as social anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A microscope image, from the laboratory of Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD, at… Continue Reading

A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trial of an mpox vaccine in adolescents found it was safe and generated an antibody response equivalent to that seen in adults, according to a planned interim analysis of study data. Adolescents are among the population groups affected by… Continue Reading

A new study by Simon Fraser University researchers has found that folate may weaken the link between blood-lead levels in pregnant women and autistic-like behaviours in their children. Researchers from SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences, led by PhD candidate Joshua Alampi, published the study in… Continue Reading

High potency cannabis use leaves a distinct mark on DNA, according to new research by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and the University of Exeter. Published in Molecular Psychiatry, this is the first study to suggest that the use of high… Continue Reading

Each year, about 2.5 million people suffer from traumatic brain injuries (TBI), which often increases their risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life. Researchers led by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine used mouse models and human post-mortem… Continue Reading

Researchers at University of Tsukuba investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the behavioral transition from the sexually receptive estrus stage to the non-receptive phase, as part of the hormone-dependent behavioral changes during the estrous cycle in female mice. Their study uncovered a… Continue Reading

An international team of researchers has identified new drug targets for therapies that could benefit patients with different forms of retinitis pigmentosa and other inherited retinal diseases. Using advanced proteomics techniques, they unveiled shared critical pathways in retinitis pigmentosa… Continue Reading

mRNA-based therapeutics and vaccines are the new hope in the fight against incurable diseases. A commonly used strategy in the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) medicine is based on the destruction of disease-causing mRNA. Achieving the opposite and stabilizing health-promoting mRNA is still a… Continue Reading

At some point, many of us have experienced the post-lunch sleepy hour, struggling to stay alert mid-afternoon, and reaching for the water bottle to rehydrate a tired body. But what about those people who suffer from “excessive daytime somnolence,” aka sleepiness that lasts throughout the… Continue Reading