Helping caregivers help people with dementia eat at home
For many people with dementia and the caregivers helping them live at home, mealtime is no picnic. The home environment can pose challenges for both the patient and those providing care — confusion and functional problems linked to dementia and a lack of caregiver support for friends and family members thrust into the role, to […]
Live Worm Removed From Woman’s Brain
A live, wriggling parasitic roundworm, 80 mm long, was extracted from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in Australia. The worm was a third-stage larval form of Ophidascaris robertsi and was surgically removed from the patient’s right frontal lobe, reported Sanjaya Senanayake, MBBS, of the Canberra Hospital in Australia, and co-authors in Emerging Infectious Diseases. […]
Pete Davidson Enters Rehab For Mental Health Struggles
Pete Davidson has entered treatment for his mental health. The “Saturday Night Live” alum is receiving inpatient care at a Pennsylvania rehab facility for issues around his post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, Page Six reported on Wednesday. A source close to the star confirmed the news to People, telling the magazine Davidson was […]
What does it take to thrive in cities, if you’re a bird? Identifying traits that help wildlife adapt to urban living can help cities bolster biodiversity through better urban planning
As cities gobble up natural spaces, some birds have learned to live alongside skyscrapers, traffic and noise — and large numbers of humans. A UCLA-led team of biologists wondered if those city-dwelling birds share common characteristics around the world that help them survive. In a paper published in Current Biology, they reveal the answer: Urban […]
PCOS Pain Caused Kelly Ripa to Pass Out During Sex
In an upcoming memoir, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, daytime talk-show host Kelly Ripa shares a story that has many people talking. The story, outlined in Haute Living, is in a chapter entitled “Don’t Let Your Husband Pick Your Death Clothes.” As Ripa related, in 1997 as a new mother she passed out during sex […]
News Anchor Has Stroke On Live TV
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News Anchor Has ‘Beginnings Of A Stroke’ During Broadcast
An Oklahoma news anchor has revealed she suffered the early symptoms of a stroke live on air Saturday morning when she began stumbling over her words and said she wasn’t feeling right. “I’m sorry, something is going on with me this morning, and I apologize to everybody,” Julie Chin of Tulsa’s KJRH said at the […]
Is Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Contagious? Period, Symptoms & Causes
Leprosy Risk Factors People at highest risk are those who live in the areas where leprosy is endemic (parts of India, China, Japan, Nepal, Egypt, and other areas) and especially those people in constant physical contact with infected people. In addition, there is some evidence that genetic defects in the immune system may cause certain […]
Women already live longer. They can live better with an improved diet: Eating more bright-colored fruits and vegetables can help prevent women’s health issues
Women tend to live longer than men but typically have higher rates of illness. Now, new research from University of Georgia suggests these higher rates of illness can be improved by a better diet, one that is high in pigmented carotenoids such as yams, kale, spinach, watermelon, bell peppers, tomatoes, oranges and carrots. These bright-colored […]
Citizen scientist leads discovery of 34 ultracool dwarf binaries
How often do stars live alone? For brown dwarfs — objects that straddle the boundary between the most massive planets and the smallest stars — astronomers need to uncover more examples of their companions to find out. Ace citizen scientist Frank Kiwy has done just that by using the Astro Data Lab science platform at […]