When people get into their 40s and beyond, their close-up vision starts to worsen. For many people, cranking up the font size on a phone or maxing out the brightness on a computer is the only way to … [+6190 chars]
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. People with mental illnesses are potentially at higher risk of breakthrough infection with SARS-C… [+2630 chars]
In January, as the Charles River was starting to freeze over, Keith Murray and the other members of MITs mens heavyweight crew team took to erging on the indoor rowing machine. For 80 minutes at a ti… [+4989 chars]
A new study examining the associations between racial and ethnic discrimination and COVID-19 vaccine refusal has found that one in ten people from ethnic minority groups who refused a vaccine experie… [+2475 chars]
05 May 2022 --- Children who followed vegetarian diets had similar growth and nutrition measures compared to those who eat meat, according to a Canadian study. However, vegetarian infants have two-… [+4699 chars]
University of South Australia scientists have uncovered another reason why society should be paying more attention to mental health: it is closely aligned to blood pressure and heart rate variations.… [+2900 chars]
Guideline drinking limits should be set lower for fat people as alcohol causes them greater harm, experts say. Overweight boozers who follow the UK's recommendations of no more than 14 units a week … [+4630 chars]
The virus that causes COVID-19 can develop partial resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir during infection of cultured cells in the laboratory by more than one mechanism. The results of the lab… [+2960 chars]
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are widely used to treat a variety of cancers; however, one serious side effect is the onset of type 1 diabetes. Now, researchers from Osaka University have discovered th… [+3142 chars]
A Monash University led study has found a promising new treatment for patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, the second most common form of dementia in the under 60s -- resulting … [+2397 chars]
May 04, 2022 9:00 AM Author: University of Utah Health Communications Teenagers often have strong emotional reactions accompanied by feelings of being frustrated, overwhelmed, moody, tired, and … [+4973 chars]
Credit: Sarah Silbiger/UPI/Shutterstock Roughly two in every three children aged between one and four years old in the United States have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to a nationwide ana… [+4363 chars]