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A new study from Aarhus University shows that when female athletes lower their energy intake and increase their training, their health and the ability of their muscles to respond to training are negatively impacted. The research is published in The Journal of Physiology.

We must change the way we talk about obesity to improve public understanding of the disease, according to a new study.

While formula-feeding babies is a safe and convenient option, research studies have shown that natural breastfeeding is linked to numerous health benefits for both mother and child. For mothers, breastfeeding can improve recovery after giving birth and lower the risks of cancer. For babies, the nutrients strengthen their immune system and help lower their risk of developing obesity and diabetes.

What happens in our nose when neurons come in contact with a smell? As the recent COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, from a medical and scientific point of view our sense of smell is as important as it is little known. Now, for the first time, a SISSA study led by Professor Anna Menini has been able to measure the electrical signals produced by cells in the human olfactory epithelium obtained from nasal biopsies.

A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and BC Children’s Hospital shows the sugar sialic acid, which makes up part of the protective intestinal mucus layer, fuels disease-causing bacteria in the gut.

GOVERNMENT should urgently address issues that have caused Zambia’s peacefulness to being deteriorating as has been revealed by the 17th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), Stardy Mwale has advised.

Mr Mwale, the former Ministry of Defence Permanent Secretary is urging Government to address any challenges that have affected Zambia’s ranking on the Global Peace Index, which has sown that the peacefulness of the country has been deteriorating from 2022.

Tobacco smoking and human papillomavirus (HPV) are both well-known risk factors for head and neck cancer, but there is ample evidence to show they can interact to further increase the risk of contracting the disease, according to a study by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the University of Chile. An article on the study is published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

A recent study published in Science Advances by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital has discovered six distinct neuronal lineages in the pons region of the brainstem and revealed new insights into their differential vulnerability to the partial loss of Atoh1, a gene crucial for the development of pontine neurons. The study was led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi, also a distinguished service professor at Baylor College of Medicine and founding director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Delivery-related mortality decreased from 2008 to 2021, while the prevalence of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) increased, according to a study published online June 22 in JAMA Network Open.

I was a teenager during Australia’s 1990s “recession we had to have,” and remember clearly a friend asking his dad for some money to go to the movies.