A new era “Kids who were in eighth grade at the start of the pandemic will be graduating from high school this year, and this unique cohort has ushered in the lowest rates of substance use we’ve seen in decades,” Miech noted. For alcohol, use in the past 12 months among eighth graders was at […]
December 17, 2024 | adolescent, alcohol, Drug use, Health, illicit drugs, marijuana, nicotine, Science, Teens | No comments
Ars has reached out to the lead author, Megan Liu, but has not received a response. Liu works for the environmental health advocacy group Toxic-Free Future, which led the study. The study highlighted that flame retardants used in plastic electronics may, in some instances, be recycled into household items. “Companies continue to use toxic flame […]
December 16, 2024 | black plastic, chemosphere, electronic plastic, EPA, flame retardants, Health, plastic, plastic recycling, Science, Toxicology, waste | No comments
Putting enzymes to the test Testing ALDH was the next step. We set up an inhibition assay in test tubes. In the assay, we measured how fast the enzyme ALDH breaks down acetaldehyde. Then, we added the suspected inhibitors—quercetin, as well as some other phenolics we wanted to test—to see whether they slowed the process. […]
December 16, 2024 | headaches, Health, red wine, sulfites, syndication, tannins | No comments
A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu after having contact with sick and dying birds suspected of carrying the virus, state health officials announced Friday. It is the first human H5N1 case detected in Louisiana. For now, the case is considered a “presumptive” positive until testing is confirmed by the Centers for […]
December 13, 2024 | bird flu, H5N1, Health, Science | No comments
For the new study, researchers at the Mayo Clinic analyzed health statistics collected by the World Health Organization. The resource included data from 183 countries, allowing the researchers to compare countries’ life expectancy and healthspans, which are calculated by years of life weighted by health status. Longer, but not better Overall, the researchers saw lifespan-healthspan […]
December 13, 2024 | disability, disease, Health, health care, life expectancy, lifespan, Science, us | No comments
For the new study, researchers at the Mayo Clinic analyzed health statistics collected by the World Health Organization. The resource included data from 183 countries, allowing the researchers to compare countries’ life expectancy and healthspans, which are calculated by years of life weighted by health status. Longer, but not better Overall, the researchers saw lifespan-healthspan […]
December 13, 2024 | disability, disease, Health, health care, life expectancy, lifespan, Science, us | No comments
Adam Steensberg, the chief executive of Danish biotech Zealand Pharma, which is developing an alternative weight loss product based on a different hormone, says “there is a duopoly already” in the GLP-1 market. Combining different drugs could be a way of expanding the effects of GLP-1s further still. Doctors such as Perkovic envisage a possible […]
December 12, 2024 | Features, GLP-1, Health, Ozempic, Science, syndication, wegovy, weight loss, weight loss drugs | No comments
Rankin pointed to an analysis that looked at 39 different viral outbreaks in birds from 1959 to 2015, where a low pathogenic avian influenza became a highly pathogenic one. Out of those, 37 were associated with commercial poultry operations. “So it’s a very clear relationship between the increasing pathogenicity of this virus and its relationship […]
December 10, 2024 | avian flu, dairy cattle, H5N1, Health, syndication | No comments
The CDC’s recent findings come from a long-running survey known as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, or NHANES, which employs health experts to collect information like weight and height measurements from a nationally representative sample of study participants. Obesity and severe obesity are determined based on body mass index, and results are reported […]
December 9, 2024 | Health, obesity, Ozempic, syndication, wegovy, weight loss drugs | No comments
So, the ultimate goal of the USDA is to eliminate cattle as a reservoir. When the Agency announced it was planning for this program, it noted that there were two candidate vaccines in trials. Until those are validated, it plans to use the standard playbook for handling emerging infections: contact tracing and isolation. And it […]
December 6, 2024 | Biology, bird flu, Flu virus, H5N1, Health, Infectious disease, medicine, Science | No comments