This year’s flu season is turning out to be brutal. As a new variant known as subclade K spreads rapidly, a study out today offers clues as to how to avoid the annual sickness.
Category: 8. Health
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Controlled hotel study finds zero flu transmission between sick students and healthy adults
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People as young as 50 can need a hip replacement. Here's everything you need to know about this common surgery
Around 117,000 people living in England and Wales had a hip replacement in 2024. Although hip replacements are often thought of as a surgery that mainly older people need, reports from previous years show that around 43% of these operations are…
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Twin study ties childbearing timing to biological aging
A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women’s lifespan and biological aging. In the study, mothers of large families, women who had no children, or women who had their first…
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Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images
What makes a conspiracy theorist? Is it poor education, an overactive imagination, a tinfoil hat? According to one recent study, it isn’t any…
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Believing that first impressions are fixed may ease social anxiety, study finds
A new study from Bar-Ilan University reveals that people with social anxiety, a common condition marked by fear or discomfort in social situations, may actually feel and perform better when they believe that others’ opinions of them are fixed…
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Climate Change Is Disrupting Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle
How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact on…
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Opinion: Modern diets clash with Stone Age physiology, fueling lifestyle diseases and discomfort
The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn’t built for modern diets, which are taking their toll on our bodies. Expert in evolutionary medicine Nicole Bender has some tips on how we can deal with…
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Stem cell engineering progress paves way for next-generation living drugs
For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell—known as helper T cells—from stem cells in a controlled laboratory setting.
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Colonoscopy bowel prep temporarily weakens gut defenses against infection, study finds
New preclinical research suggests that bowel preparation procedures for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, culminating in unappreciated effects in patients with compromised gastrointestinal health.
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Common blood protein protects patients from lethal 'black fungus' infection, new study finds
Albumin is the most common protein in the blood, a vital molecule produced by the liver that helps maintain fluid balance and transports proteins and hormones. It also plays a key role in fighting off a lethal disease called mucormycosis or…
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