Is Your Name Among Wyoming’s Favorites for New Babies? – Wyoming Department of Health
Is Your Name Among Wyoming’s Favorites for New Babies? April 12, 2023 Noah was the king of the hill among male names for Wyoming’s newest residents with Charlotte leading the pack for female babies in 2022, according to Vital Statistics Services (VSS), part of the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). For newborn Wyoming boys, Noah […]
Molecular basis for alkaline taste: Working with fruit flies, research informs how other species might detect and avoid high-pH or alkaline foods
The sense of taste is among the first to come into contact with food before we ingest it, but whether animals can taste basic or alkaline food and how they do it remained unclear until now. A research group led by Yali Zhang, PhD, Principal Investigator at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, recently addressed this […]
Baseball: The Safest Sport for High School Athletes?
LAS VEGAS — Annual surveys of high school athletic trainers show that, among nine major sports, boys’ football has the highest injury rate and baseball the lowest, researchers reported here. But when ranked by severity, boys’ wrestling was the most dangerous, with 9.6% of injuries sustained in the sport needing surgery, according to a study […]
Opioids Most Common Substance in Young Children’s Fatal Poisonings
Opioids were the most common substance contributing to fatal poisonings among children age 5 years and younger in recent years, researchers reported. Examination of 731 poisoning-related fatalities from 2005 to 2018 in young kids reported to the National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System (NFR-CRS), showed that opioids were involved in 346 of the fatal cases (47.3%). […]
The Syria-Turkey Earthquake Has Worsened An Invisible Crisis For Women
Shaza Hamo considers herself among the lucky ones. The 36-year-old activist and mother of five survived the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 50,000 people in Syria and Turkey earlier this month. Hamo lost her home, her money and all of her belongings. Still, she called and checked on the women in her community, often […]
Severe Mpox in Advanced HIV Patients Tied to Complications, Death
SEATTLE — Among people living with HIV, a severe form of mpox in the context of immunosuppression appeared to lead to complications and even death, according to a global case series. In a cohort of 382 patients, severe complications most commonly occurred in those with a CD4 cell count <100 cells/mm3 compared with those with […]
CDC: ‘Alarming’ Rise in Violence, Hopelessness Among Teen Girls
The CDC is reporting alarming increases in the rates of sadness, hopelessness, violence, and suicidal ideation among teen girls. Nearly three in five (57%) said they felt “persistently sad or hopeless” in 2021, a rate that doubled boys and represented a large jump from the 36% reporting that in 2011, according to findings from the […]
SPAN Study Finds a Winner for Treating Stroke in Rodents
DALLAS — Uric acid was shown to be the most successful neuroprotectant among rodents in a study from the Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN), a nationwide trial platform that applies clinical research practices to preclinical studies in hopes of better informing human studies. Of the six interventions studied in the randomized rodent trial, uric acid […]
Mocktails or cocktails? Having a sense of purpose in life can keep binge drinking at bay: A new study reveals that having a sense of purpose in daily life can influence college students’ decisions on day-to-day alcohol consumption
Heavy alcohol use is common among college students — and as a consequence, it puts young adults at risk for a wide range of health issues, from cardiovascular disease to cancer. Day in and day out, college students are bombarded with cues to drink, whether that’s seeing a group of friends toast at a party […]
Impact of ‘hyper-palatable’ foods across four diets
If losing weight was among your 2023 resolutions, findings by researchers from the University of Kansas and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may provide clearer guidance about the food you put on your plate. Using previous study data, researchers sought to determine what characteristics of meals were important for determining how many calories were […]