Modern assisted reproductive technologies have helped millions of infertile couples to bypass their reproductive challenges, and these technologies can be regarded as one of the greatest achievements of medicine. Yet, they are far from perfect. Many couples still fail to achieve pregnancy or need several treatment cycles to attain parenthood. […]
World_of_Textiles/Shutterstock By Raegan Davies/Aug. 24, 2021 12:31 pm EDT We’ve all been there — after the third or fourth night of staying up late playing our favorite video game or binging a new show and feeling awful in the morning, we vow to ourselves we’re going to start actually getting some […]
Devoted dog owners want the best for their fur babies: a safe home, plenty of love, lots of play time. Increasingly, owners are going beyond the bags and cans of the pet food aisle and opting to give their pups a raw-food diet. Some are mixing their own menus of […]
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval in June of a drug purporting to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was widely celebrated, but it also touched off alarms. There were worries in the scientific community about the drug’s mixed results in studies — the FDA’s own expert advisory panel was […]
DR ELLIE CANNON: Why does my poor husband get hiccups every time he eats? My husband suffers from severe hiccups every time he eats. It’s been going on for quite a while, and mainly happens when he eats bread or potatoes. The hiccups last for several minutes, and it’s quite […]
A lack of confidence in our abilities on a given task or activity seems to stem from overestimating the abilities of others, according to a University of Alberta study. The finding could offer leaders insights into how to counter self-doubt in the face of a difficult task. Previous research has […]
Why can’t migraine patients get wonder jab given OK a year ago? Charity reveals desperate sufferers are paying up to £350 to get the drugs privately Groundbreaking CGRP inhibitors are not yet available to patients on the NHS NICE sanctioned them last March, ruling them effective and value for money […]
A year and a half into the pandemic, we still do not know exactly where the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, came from. The prevailing view so far has been that the virus “spilled over” from bats into humans. But there are increasing calls to investigate the possibility that it […]
The theory that COVID-19 might be the result of scientific experiments has thrown a spotlight on the work of the world’s most secure biolabs. While the evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China is strictly circumstantial, a number of experts want tougher controls on such facilities […]
More than 35% of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated for COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And for anyone who receives the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, two doses are required to complete the series and be fully vaccinated. The CDC released a study […]