Exercise and muscle regulation: Implications for diabetes and obesity
How do our muscles respond at the molecular level to exercise? Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) have unraveled the cellular basis and signaling pathways responsible for the positive impact of physical activity on our overall health. Regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell, play a critical […]
Recreational Cannabis Use a Negative for Adolescent Mental Health
Cannabis use that doesn’t rise to the level of diagnosable substance abuse disorder was nonetheless associated with negative affects on mental health, national data showed. In the 2015 to 2019 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, 2.5% of participants ages 12-17 reported repeated past-year cannabis use to a degree that led to clinically significant […]
CDC Raises Travel Alert As Monkeypox Cases Grow
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its travel alert to level two on Monday, asking travelers to “practice enhanced precautions” as monkeypox cases have grown to over 1,000 worldwide. The travel alert encourages people traveling to “avoid close contact” with sick people and animals with skin lesions. Advertisement The CDC cautions that the […]
Initial COVID-19 infection on the single-cell level, revealed
What is going on at the single-cell level in the first days of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lungs? Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC), in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, have clarified what immune cells are present in the lungs in the first days of SARS-CoV-2 […]
‘The Level of Death and Despair’: What We Heard This Week
“It’s almost impossible to describe to those who don’t work in our environment the level of death and despair that nurses and other frontline healthcare workers have been witness to over the past 18 months.” — Beth Wathen, MSN, RN, president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, on how the COVID pandemic has affected […]