Credit: CC0 Public Domain French President Emmanuel Macron will present a bill on assisted dying to go before parliament in May, he said in an interview published by French media on Sunday. The move could make France the next European country to legalize euthanasia for the terminally ill, following a long consultation with a committee …
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Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels New research indicates that individuals with persistent and worsening metabolic syndrome—which encompasses conditions such as high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, excess abdominal fat, and abnormal cholesterol—face an elevated risk of developing various types of cancer. The findings are published in a paper titled “The association of metabolic syndrome scores …
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Surviving childhood cancer does not always mean a clean bill of health, as the treatments that eradicate those cancers can put adult survivors at risk of new cancers and other serious health problems. Despite the existence of surveillance guidelines that recommend screening for adult cancers and other “late effects” of cancer …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or more languages—the same language regions light up when they listen to any of the languages that they …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As blood centers and hospitals face critically low levels of blood supplies, many people with heart disease may wonder if they can help by donating. For the most part, they can do so safely, experts say. Typically, someone in the US needs blood about every two seconds for reasons that may …
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Features isolated by HILIC LC-MS and showing linear and/or cyclical trends across each sleep deprivation experiment. Heatmaps display significant (FDR-adjusted P value of
Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.12.006 How does your immune system decide between fighting invading pathogens now or preparing to fight them in the future? Turns out, it can change his mind, Every person has 10 million to 100 million unique T cells that have a critical job in the immune system: patrolling the …
The hormonal gel is applied to the shoulders, and Treviño made it part of his morning routine. Credit: Karin Higgins/UC Davis Matthew Treviño and Emily Fletcher are self-described DINKWADs—double income, no kids, with a dog. The Sacramento couple, who met and work at UC Davis, are as committed to each other as they are to …
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Opill, the first-ever over-the-counter birth control pill, will be available in major retailers. Credit: Perrigo The first over-the-counter (OTC) birth control pill, Opill, will be available at pharmacies, convenience stores, grocery stores and on the Opill.com website later this month or early April. The birth control pill is used to prevent pregnancy and will be …
Credit: Maksim Goncharenok from Pexels A German man who deliberately got vaccinated for COVID-19 a whopping 217 times did not report any side effects from his many jabs, according to researchers studying possibly the “most vaccinated person in history”. The immune system of the 62-year-old man from the central German city of Magdeburg—who has not …
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