Cart is empty Nearly 36 million people in Europe may have had long-lasting health problems from coronavirus infections they got during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization’s regional director said Tuesday.
A new treatment for osteoarthritis in horses and potentially humans
For the first time, an intervention has emerged that seems competent in slowing down osteoarthritis (OA) progression. In a clinical study from SLU and University of Gothenburg, OA horses treated with a novel drug combination became completely free from lameness with a simultaneous impediment of the joint tissue degradation. It could be worth exploring this drug for human OA intervention as well. The findings are published in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open.
Structural aging of human neurons contrast with changes seen in schizophrenia
While the human mind develops during aging, the mechanism of development remains unknown but may be the result of brain alteration derived from life style and environment.
Hairy findings: chemicals study jolts French senators
Mercury, pesticides and rare earth metals form a toxic cocktail that a French laboratory announced Tuesday it has found in an unlikely place: on the heads of senators.
Do children inherit parents’ stressful experiences?
Most of us learned in high school that people get half their genes from their father and half from their mother. That’s true, but it turns out the way parents contribute to their offspring’s genetics is more complicated—and more intriguing.
Cooperation between muscle and liver circadian clocks is key to controlling glucose metabolism, finds study
Collaborative work by teams at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has shown that interplay between circadian clocks in liver and skeletal muscle controls glucose metabolism.
UK nurses strike threat ends after union ballot
The threat of further strikes by British nurses ended on Tuesday, after the Royal College of Nursing said a ballot on industrial action had failed to meet the legal threshold.
New study finds fewer heart attacks, strokes and death among patients with diabetes and history of metabolic surgery
Patients with diabetes and a history of metabolic surgery had significantly fewer heart attacks, strokes, hospitalizations and death compared to matched patients who did not have the surgery, according to a new study presented here today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting.
New study finds diabetes remains in remission years after gastric bypass surgery regardless of weight loss
More than half of patients with diabetes and a history of metabolic surgery (51%) experienced remission of their diabetes even if they did not achieve significant weight loss after surgery, according to a new study presented here today at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting.
IMPROVING LIBRARIES
GOVERNMENT’S move to employ librarians to rekindle a reading culture is welcome but that must come with the restocking of the libraries with latest books and materials that are still relevant in this modern age.
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