Category: Health

This representative photo shows a woman experiencing stomach pain. — Unsplash/File A common stomach ache that you can self-treat with over-the-counter medications could potentially be something much bigger that you’re suppressing. Instead of stomach pain or stomach pain, it could be a stomach ulcer that you are experiencing. Although they have similar symptoms, stomach ulcers...

Modern diets and fungi are among the suspects behind rising numbers among under-40s – expected to double by 2030, experts say Colon cancer cases are expected to double in just a few years as the number of diagnoses rises sharply among young people. Modern diets and fungi are among the suspects behind the rise in...

We all know that the difficulty walking many of us with multiple sclerosis (MS) can be caused by lesions that damage the nerves along the spinal cord. What if an electronic bridge could be built to carry nerve impulses over these damaged areas? This concept is being explored as a way to help people who...

Cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise in Cornwall and across England, so the current number of diagnosed cases of infectious syphilis is believed to be the highest since the Second World War. Figures from the UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) show that in 2022 there were a total of 392,453 new...

A group of heart failure patients have seen their condition spontaneously reversed in an ‘unprecedented case’. Each of the three men suffered from heart failure due to cardiac amyloidosis, a build-up of toxic proteins in the heart that makes it difficult for the organ to function properly. The chronic disease worsens over time, is sometimes...

Comparative approaches to estimating heritability components of Neanderthal introgression. We group simulations by associations between minor allele frequency (MAF) and local linkage disequilibrium at SNPs on effect size (MAF-LD linkage): MAJOR, COMMON, RARE, HIGH, LOW. In each group, we performed 12 simulations with different polygenicity and heritability (see Methods). We also combine the results of...

“Vaginal seeding,” the controversial practice of exposing babies born by C-section to their parents’ vaginal fluids after birth, may benefit the newborns’ gut microbiomes, a new study suggests. Babies born by C-section do not have the same gut microbes as those born vaginally, possibly because they are not exposed to their parents’ microbes. vaginal microbiome...

There have been some locally acquired cases of malaria in Florida and Texas — the first outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in the U.S. in 20 years, health officials warned in a warning. The risk of contracting malaria in the U.S. remains extremely low, it said. All five patients – four in Floridaone in Texas...

“Sitting on the floor corrects some of the pain-inducing compensatory positions our bodies adopt after prolonged sitting on a chair, couch, or in your car,” Kelly adds. “Our bodies are designed to sit in ground-based positions, so when you spend some time on the floor each day, you help ‘rewire’ your hip joints. Simply put,...

The next time you whisper sweet nothings into someone’s ear, you might want to aim for their left side. Neuroscientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), the University Hospital of Lausanne and University of Lausanne in Switzerland have discovered a strange bias in our perception of pleasant voices. According to brain...