As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job.
It turned out to be the start of a lifelong affiliation – first as a trainee, then…
Category: 8. Health
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Best way for employers to support employees with chronic mental illness is by offering flexibility
More than 20% of Americans will be diagnosed with mental illness in their lifetimes. They will, that is, experience conditions that influence the way they think, feel and act – and that may initially seem incompatible with the demands of…
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Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer (NK) cells act as key defenders within the immune system. They help control infections by targeting invading microbes, foreign materials, and damaged or infected cells early on, which limits their ability to spread. NK cells travel…
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Cannabis compounds show unexpected power against ovarian cancer
In the future, medications derived from cannabis may play a role in treating ovarian cancer. A research team examining two natural compounds found in cannabis discovered that both produced notable anti-cancer activity when tested on ovarian…
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Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon reveals 8 back pain myths to stop believing
Back pain affects many people, yet a surprising number of misunderstandings continue to circulate. Meghan Murphy, M.D., a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, reviews eight common beliefs and explains what research and…
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Indoor tanning triples melanoma risk and seeds broad DNA mutations
Indoor tanning drastically increases melanoma risk, and scientists have now mapped the sweeping DNA damage tanning beds inflict across nearly the entire skin surface — damage far beyond what sunlight causes.
- Researchers examined thousands of…
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Researchers identify viral suspects that could be fueling long COVID
For many people living with long COVID, ongoing issues such as breathlessness, fatigue and brain fog remain difficult to explain. A team of prominent microbiologists now believes they may have uncovered an important clue.
Their view is that, for…
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Are Hidden Infections Linked to Long COVID?
Long COVID continues to afflict many people, and confound doctors. We have learned more about various trajectories the illness can take, who is at risk, and ways to reduce the risk of the illness, such as by…
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Harvard gut discovery could change how we treat obesity and diabetes
A research project supported by FAPESP and carried out at Harvard University in the United States has identified a set of metabolites that move from the intestine to the liver and then on to the heart, which distributes them throughout the body….
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Genetics of 14 Psychiatric Disorders Helps Explain Diagnostic Overlap
A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same individual….
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