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Intermittent fasting is one of the most popular diets around right now, and its benefits and downsides are both well-documented. As The Healthy explains succinctly, intermittent fasting involves restricting when you eat and when you don’t, and many plans purport they can lead to weight loss as well as protection from several different diseases. The […]
Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as voluntary shelter-in-place, quarantines, and other steps taken to control the SARS-CoV-2 virus can reduce the peak number of infections, daily infection rates, cumulative infections, and overall deaths, a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE has found. “High compliance with voluntary quarantine—where the entire household stays home if there is […]
Are obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses and more the result of a “mismatch” between the meals we eat and the foods our bodies are prepared for? The “mismatch hypothesis” argues that each of our bodies has evolved and adapted to digest the foods that our ancestors ate, and that human bodies will struggle and largely fail […]
Halloween is right around the corner and people are definitely getting creative when it comes to ways of making trick-or-treating as safe as possible. Of course, leave it to the King of Halloween Candy, Reese’s, to take that creativity to a whole new level. The brand announced that it would be unleashing a robotic trick-or-treat […]
She’s a doting grandmother! Yolanda Hadid shared a sweet photo on Instagram on Sunday, October 18, of her daughter Gigi Hadid‘s almost 1-month-old baby with Zayn Malik. Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik: A Timeline of Their Relationship “My heart is expending [sic] with so much love and joy for this little baby girl she is […]
New lease on life! Mena Suvari is pregnant with her and husband Michael Hope’s first child. Celebrities Announcing Pregnancies During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Pics “It’s still this process for me of believing it and accepting that something this beautiful could happen for me,” the actress, 41, told People on Friday, October 16. “It’s been a very emotional […]
As people grow older, certain genetic mutations in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)—which give rise to blood and immune cells—can eventually cause cancer or predispose people to cardiovascular disease. Now, two teams of scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have each discovered a […]
The idea of using herd immunity to manage the COVID-19 pandemic — by allowing low-risk people to acquire the infection naturally as they resume their normal lives — is a “dangerous” and “flawed” approach, according to a new letter signed by 80 international researchers. The letter, published Wednesday (Oct. 14) in the journal The Lancet, […]
The 124th American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Annual Meeting and OTO Experience The annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is being held virtually this year from Sep. 13 to Oct. 25 and has attracted participants from around the world, including otolaryngologists, medical experts, allied health professionals, and […]
Western Australia has experienced historically low levels of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza this winter due to the public health measures implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Researchers from the Wesfarmers Center of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, based at Telethon Kids Institute, Perth Children’s Hospital and PathWest found a staggering 98.0 percent drop […]