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Category: 4. Health

  • Smart lactation pads can monitor safety of breast milk in real time

    Smart lactation pads can monitor safety of breast milk in real time

    Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a lactation pad equipped with sensing technology that allows parents of newborns to monitor breast milk in real time. Publishing in the Cell Press journal Device on May 7, their work shows that the device is capable of ensuring that breast milk contains safe levels of the painkiller acetaminophen, which is often prescribed after childbirth and can be transferred to breastfeeding infants.

    “Our device represents a major…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Climate change: Future of today’s young people

    Climate change: Future of today’s young people

    Research led by climate scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) reveals that millions of today’s young people will live through unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves, crop failures, river floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms under current climate policies. If global temperatures rise by 3.5°C by 2100, 92% of children born in 2020 will experience unprecedented heatwave exposure over their lifetime, affecting 111 million children. Meeting the Paris Agreement’s…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • A new class of molecules against cancer cells refractory to standard treatments

    A new class of molecules against cancer cells refractory to standard treatments

    Current anticancer treatments essentially target the primary tumour cells that proliferate quickly, but do not effectively eliminate specific cancer cells able to adapt to existing treatments and which exhibit high metastatic potential1. Yet metastases are responsible for 70% of cancer deaths.

    A French research team from Institut Curie, the CNRS and Inserm has just developed a new class of small molecules that bring about the destruction of cell membranes, and hence triggers cell death. Led…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Scientists map tongue’s sweet sensor, may lead to new ways to curb sugar cravings

    Scientists map tongue’s sweet sensor, may lead to new ways to curb sugar cravings

    Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 pounds of the sweet stuff every year, up from 18 pounds in 1800.

    With new research published May 7, in Cell, Columbia University scientists have taken a major step toward dealing with this public health crisis. For the first time, they have mapped the 3-D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, the molecular machine that allows us to taste sweet things. This could…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • A culturally adapted obesity prevention for Latino families

    A culturally adapted obesity prevention for Latino families

    A University of California, Riverside-led research team has adapted an intervention for childhood obesity prevention to better serve Latina mothers, non-maternal caregivers, and families of low-income backgrounds in Inland Southern California. The study, spearheaded by medical anthropologist Ann Cheney, could make significant contributions to public health by ensuring that early childhood obesity prevention strategies begin in infancy with infant feeding and are culturally and linguistically…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Researchers restore antibiotic effect in the event of resistance

    Researchers restore antibiotic effect in the event of resistance

    Bacterial resistance negates the effect of antibiotics in the treatment of infection. Using mouse models, researchers now show that if antibiotics are administered with an enzyme called endolysin, the combined effect protects against infection by resistant bacteria in all bodily organs — including the brain, which antibiotics alone have difficulty reaching. The results are reported in the journal Molecular Medicine.

    The World Health Organization has identified antibiotic resistant bacteria…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Aetna Withdraws From The ACA Exchanges

    Aetna Withdraws From The ACA Exchanges

    In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Aetna’s withdrawal from the ACA exchanges, the potential for digital health consolidation, high error rates from new AI models, a radioisotope deal and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.

    Health insurer Aetna is leaving the Affordable Care Act’s individual marketplaces starting in 2026. The move marks the second time Aetna withdrew from the space: It previously pulled out in…

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    News Source: www.forbes.com

  • Gut Microbes Can Modify Immune Cells & Boost Arthritis

    Gut Microbes Can Modify Immune Cells & Boost Arthritis

    Millions of people around the world have an autoimmune disorder known as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which can cause serious joint pain, swelling, and damage, among other symptoms. The disease is thought to arise when the immune system erroneously attacks the body’s tissues, but the triggers and mechanisms underlying the disease are not known. Some research has suggested that problems with the community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract – the gut…

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    News Source: www.labroots.com

  • PetMeds And Dutch Team Up For Veterinary Care And Prescriptions

    PetMeds And Dutch Team Up For Veterinary Care And Prescriptions

    PetMed Express Inc., the parent company of PetMeds and PetCareRx has entered a strategic partnership with virtual veterinary care provider Dutch to expand its provider ecosystem with affordable, accessible pet healthcare options. The new partnership will enable pet owners to leverage Dutch’s technology and veterinary team to secure prescriptions for PetMeds’ medications.

    Pet owners, through the partnership, can sign…

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    News Source: www.forbes.com

  • Contaminated milk from one plant in Illinois sickened thousands with Salmonella in 1985 − as outbreaks rise in the US, lessons from this one remain true

    Contaminated milk from one plant in Illinois sickened thousands with Salmonella in 1985 − as outbreaks rise in the US, lessons from this one remain true

    In 1985, contaminated milk in Illinois led to a Salmonella outbreak that infected hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and caused at least 12 deaths. At the time, it was the largest single outbreak of foodborne illness in the U.S. and remains the worst outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning in American history.

    Many questions circulated during the outbreak. How could this contamination occur in a modern dairy farm? Was it caused by a flaw in engineering or…

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    News Source: theconversation.com