From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy at birth decreased in 39 U.S. states and increased in 11 states, according to the August 21 National Vital Statistics Report. Elizabeth Arias, Ph.D., of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues present complete life tables for each of the 50 states and the District […]
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown for the first time how and why the destruction of microbes in a newborn’s gut by antibiotics can lead to lifelong respiratory allergies. In a study published today in Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyA research team from the School of […]
Image credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have discovered a drug already used in cancer patients that, when used in current gene therapy protocols, can improve the function of blood stem cells by three-fold. Every day, a trillion blood cells are produced in the human body. Blood stem cells are the only cell types in our […]
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Getting regular, sufficient, and good-quality sleep is crucial for human health and well-being, especially for children. With summer temperatures rising and nights offering little relief from the heat, this can be a major challenge. “Summer heat can make it difficult to get regular sleep, which can lead to loss of […]
Image credit: CC0 Public Domain According to a new study, Americans have the lowest life expectancy compared to other English-speaking countries. The Pennsylvania State University researchers who conducted the study compared death rates from 1990 to 2019 in six English-speaking countries and found that people in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand […]
Image credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by Pennsylvania State University shows that early exposure to “forever chemicals” in the environment causes lasting damage to the gut microbiome of mice and contributes to the development of metabolic diseases later in life. The results were published in the journal on August 14 Environmental health […]
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain U.S. military veterans face unique stressors such as combat deployments and suffer from a variety of health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can negatively impact numerous areas of functioning. For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented its Whole Health initiative, a […]
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Despite being home to some of the world’s most dangerous animals, Australia has had the highest life expectancy in the English-speaking world over the past three decades. As for other high-income English-speaking countries, the Irish have seen the largest gains in life expectancy, while Americans have ranked last since the […]
Image credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1874, a surgeon in South Australia telegraphed wound care instructions for a patient 2,000 kilometers away. A few years later, in 1879, a letter was sent to The Lancet A medical journal suggested that doctors should use the telephone to avoid unnecessary patient visits. With the spread of the […]
Age-related deficits in memory updating are mitigated by blocking HDAC3 immediately after updating. Source: Frontiers of molecular neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2024.1429880 Everyone has moments of forgetfulness from time to time, especially as we get older. But older adults not only have difficulty remembering new information. They also have more difficulty changing those memories when new […]
