Martin MiddlewoodBiology A new study shows an animal's lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it's 38 years theconversation.com - Benjamin Mayne Humans have a “natural” lifespan of around 38 years, according to a new method we have developed for estimating the lifespans of different species by …
Martin MiddlewoodSocial Work The Disappearing Y Chromosome The Atlantic - Sarah ZhangIt’s surprisingly common for men to start losing entire chromosomes from blood cells as they age. In the 1960s, doctors counting the number of chromosomes in human white blood cells noticed a strange Frequently—and
Martin MiddlewoodMicrobiology Why overuse of antibiotics is a massive, ‘staggering’ problem in health care pbs.org A new report out from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control highlights that we are still losing the battle against so-called superbugs, bacteria that …
Martin MiddlewoodFDA Former FDA Adviser Who Voted to Approve LASIK Now Thinks the Eye Surgery Should Be Banned People - By Benjamin VanHooseOne former FDA adviser who voted to approve laser eye surgery now views the procedure differently. The minimally invasive surgery, commonly known as LASIK, aims to correct vision in just minutes, using
Martin Middlewood Why Can’t Veterans Get Medical Marijiuana for PTSD When People (and Even Dogs) Can in 33 States? ecowatch.com - Healthline For 21 years, Doug Distaso served his country in the United States Air Force. He commanded joint aviation, maintenance, and support personnel globally …
Martin MiddlewoodMachine Learning AI Can Tell If You're Going to Die Soon. We Just Don't Know How It Knows. Popular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertAlbert Einstein’s famous expression “spooky action at a distance” refers to quantum entanglement, a phenomenon seen on the most micro of scales. But machine learning seems to grow more mysterious and every
Martin Middlewood Breakthrough as scientists create a new cowpox-style virus that can kill EVERY type of cancer dailymail.co.uk - By Zoe Zaczek For Daily Mail Australia Scientists have created a new cowpox-style virus in a bid to cure cancer. The treatment, called CF33, can kill every type of cancer in a petrie dish …
Martin MiddlewoodInnovation Scientists Just Discovered That Eating Chocolate Has an Amazing Effect on Happiness. But There Is a (Literally) Small Catch Inc Magazine - Jeff HadenGreat news: A little dark chocolate can make you happier. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), the key word is 'little.' A number of studies show the benefits of dark chocolate.
Martin MiddlewoodScience A Second Woman Has Gotten Parasitic Eye Worms, and Surely We're All Next Gizmodo - Ed Cara A species of worm that can infect human eyes has done it again, and this time it chose a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska. The woman is thought to be …
Martin Middlewood Measles wipes out immune system's memory, study finds The Guardian - Hannah Devlin Science correspondentMeasles causes long-term damage to the immune system, leaving children who have had it vulnerable to other infections long after the initial illness has passed, research has revealed. Two studies of unvaccinated
Martin Middlewood Scientists find how deadly malaria parasite jumped from gorillas to humans Reuters - by Kate Kelland and Stuart McDillLONDON (Reuters) - Scientists who resurrected a 50,000-year-old gene sequence have analyzed it to figure out how the world's deadliest malaria parasite jumped from gorillas to humans - giving insight the
Martin Middlewood An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’ The New York Times - Henry MarshTHE FIRST CELL And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last By Azra Raza Throughout my career as a neurosurgeon, I have worked closely with oncologists. Many of my patients have cancer of the brain
Martin Middlewood A Month Before Stroke, Your Body Will Warn You With These 10 Signals starplasticsurgerypics.com A stroke occurs when blood flow to an area of the brain is suddenly cut off. The brain cells get deprived of oxygen and begin to die quickly. Having …
Martin Middlewood 10-year-old Texas girl contracts brain-eating amoeba while swimming CNN - By Amir Vera, CNN(CNN) — A weekend swim left a young girl fighting for her life when she contracted a brain-eating amoeba with a 97% fatality rate. Lily Mae Avant, 10, swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney in Bosque
Martin Middlewood The Patient Who Finally Knows Why Her UTIs Won’t Go Away The Atlantic - Sarah ZhangUrinary-tract infections were once easy to cure. Then they started becoming resistant to antibiotics. Nanell Mann began getting urinary tract infections in 1971, when she got a hysterectomy following birth
Martin MiddlewoodMedicine Postnatal overnutrition linked to aging bcm.edu - Homa Shalchi 713-798-4710Houston, TX - Aug 26, 2019 Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found a new answer to an old question: how can overnutrition during infancy lead to long-lasting …
Martin MiddlewoodDiabetes The world’s most popular artificial sweetener may not be safe for consumption Ladders - Sheila McClear The hugely popular sweetener aspartame – also known as Nutrasweet – has been taken to task by researchers for not being sufficiently proven to be …
Martin MiddlewoodAnimals Petting an animal for just ten minutes can lower stress levels, study finds Salon - Nicole KarlisWhen one is stressed, reaching out to or calling a pet for comfort feels, at least to pet owners, like a natural instinct. While giving your pet pats is an innately good feeling that seems to make us happy.
Martin MiddlewoodThe Brain Boosting a single brain molecule reduced anxiety in lab monkeys TNW - Tristan GreeneScientists may have found a potential cure for anxiety after isolating and boosting a molecule in the brains of rhesus monkeys. Andrew Fox, a researcher at UC Davis, and co-author Tade Souaiaia from SUNY
Martin Middlewood Activated charcoal shown to make herpes medication more effective newatlas.com - Ben Coxworth Applied topically or taken orally, acyclovir is one of the most commonly-used herpes-treatment drugs. It can also damage the kidneys over time, …
Martin MiddlewoodGeek Scientists Have Created a Vaccine for Cat Allergies, but You Can't Have It Yet Gizmodo - Ed Cara People unjustly kept away from feline companionship due to an allergy are rejoicing this week, after news resurfaced of a potential vaccine that …
Martin Middlewood Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts The Atlantic - Meghan O'RourkeIn the fall of 1997, after I graduated from college, I began experiencing what I called “electric shocks”—tiny stabbing sensations that flickered over my legs and arms every morning. They were so extreme
Martin Middlewood Researchers Have Finally Found an Effective Treatment for Ebola smithsonianmag.com - Lila Thulin As the second-largest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus reached its one-year mark in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a group of public health …
Martin MiddlewoodPollution Air Pollution Gets Into Your Brain, and Scientists Want to Know What It's Doing to You Gizmodo - Jackie Rocheleau Outdoor air pollution causes millions of deaths each year—4.2 million premature deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. Over …
Martin MiddlewoodThe Brain New Study Finds Frightening Connection Between Weight Gain and Brain Health Fatherly - Lauren Vinopal A new study pinpoints a frightening connection between obesity and a thinner cerebral cortex. It is pretty easy t0 gain weight as you grow older. …
Martin Middlewood Another Tick-Borne Disease To Worry About NPR - Susan BrinkWhen a tick bores into your skin, anchoring itself for what can be a leisurely meal while often spreading germs, it isn't just Lyme disease that you have to worry about. Various kinds of ticks have been
Martin Middlewood How to not get a horrible brain parasite on your trip to Hawaii Popular Science - Rachel FeltmanIt's one souvenir you really don't want to bring home You may have read a thing or two lately about the oh-so-grossly-named rat lungworm. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently confirmed
Martin Middlewood Trump administration bans CDC from saying 'diversity,' transgender,' 'fetus,' and more Mashable - Proma KhoslaUPDATE: May 26, 2019, 9:14 a.m. EDT This entire report is based on a 2017 story from The Washington Post that turned out to be not entirely accurate. As CNN confirmed in Jan. 2018, the words weren't banned,
Martin MiddlewoodNews The Philippines Is Fighting One Of The World's Worst Measles Outbreaks NPR - Jason BeaubienThe measles outbreak got so bad in Manila, Philippines, that San Lazaro Hospital had to set up tents in the parking lot, the courtyard and even the landing at the top of the stairs outside the pediatric
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