Constantly Feeling Unmotivated? You Could Have This Condition
MementoJpeg via Getty Images I’ve been having a lot of those mornings recently. You know the kind; you wake up bleary-eyed, stare at the ceiling, and wonder exactly how you’re meant to motivate yourself to do a single thing that day. I’m not alone. Nearly a third of UK employees say they don’t feel motivated […]
Exercise-mimicking drug sheds weight, boosts muscle activity in mice
A brand-new kind of drug, tested in mice, shows promising new results that could lead to the development of a new weight-loss drug that mimics exercise. The new compound, developed and tested by a University of Florida professor of pharmacy and his colleagues, leads obese mice to lose weight by convincing the body’s muscles that […]
Opinion | ‘Oh, Wow, There He Goes’: What We Heard This Week
“We love the fact you just kind of look up in the sky and go, ‘Oh, wow, there he goes.’” — Corinn Darby, wife of John Darby, MD, whose ashes were launched into low-earth orbit. “The uncertainty is really unfortunate.” — Joshua Sharfstein, MD, former principal deputy commissioner of the FDA, on the future of […]
GOP State Lawmaker Has Ideas On Women’s Reproductive Issues Because He Knows Cows
A Republican state lawmaker in Idaho is in a world of trouble since he claimed to be some kind of expert on women’s reproductive issues because he has worked with cows. “I’ve milked a few cows, spent most of my time walking behind lines of cows, so if you want some ideas on repro and […]
A better model for type 2 diabetes: The Nile rat
Researchers have assembled the first reference genome for the Nile rat — a kind of genetic template of this species that may be used for laboratory and clinical studies. The hope, according to UC Santa Barbara researcher Huishi Toh, is that it will be useful for those who investigate Type 2 diabetes and neurological disorders […]
How To Do A Self-Exam When You Have Lumpy Breasts
The kind of breasts you have is determined by genetics. Having lumpy or smooth breasts is just like having large or small ones; it’s out of your control and often not a cause for concern. While having breasts that are unique to you is perfectly normal, cancer checks can be harder for people with lumpy […]
Opinion | ‘An Unreasonable Amount of Work That’s Expected to Be Done’: What We Heard This Week
“There’s kind of an unreasonable amount of work that’s expected to be done.” — Justin Porter, MD, of the University of Chicago, on his simulation study that found primary care doctors would need nearly 27 hours a day to do all the work they’re expected to do. “They think about lack of sexual activity on […]
Specific brain responses to traumatic stress linked to PTSD risk
Results from the largest prospective study of its kind indicate that in the initial days and weeks after experiencing trauma, individuals facing potentially threatening situations who had less activity in their hippocampus — a brain structure critical for forming memories of situations that are dangerous and that are safe — developed more severe posttraumatic stress […]
How blood vessels remember a stroke
Networks adapt over time and in this way form a kind of memory. This is the key finding of a new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and the Technical University of Munich. They show that the structure of blood vascular network is dynamic and can adapt […]
7 Ways Your Commute Is Wrecking Your Health And Relationships
Dealing with honking cars, train delays and frustrated fellow passengers can be its own kind of hellish Olympic sport. And a lot of us do it every day as we commute to work. The percentage of Americans with a commute greater than 90 minutes a day nearly doubled between 2010 and 2019. And as people […]