Supportive strategies help ‘picky eaters’ deal with food aversions
In a large national survey, adults who struggled with picky eating habits as children overwhelmingly said they benefitted more from positive and encouraging strategies their parents used than forceful or coercive approaches. The research, led by a team at Duke Health, was conducted among a generation of people who struggled with food avoidance before it […]
Scientists identify mechanism that may influence infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants: Enzyme process alters spike protein function
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have found that a process in cells may limit infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, and that mutations in the alpha and delta variants overcome this effect, potentially boosting the virus’s ability to spread. The findings were published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was […]
New Fauci Documentary: ‘You Don’t Get Intimidated’
It’s hard to imagine Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, running a private practice that caters to wealthy Manhattanites, but that’s the direction he once considered. When he was called into the Public Health Service during the Vietnam War, Fauci figured he’d do his time and then “go […]
One-Word Change in Prostate Cancer Guideline Has Some Urologists in Arms
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is under fire for removing active surveillance’s (AS) “preferred” status in its low-risk prostate cancer guidelines. AS has been listed as preferred since 2019, and the change puts it on par with radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy in this patient population. Edward “Ted” Schaeffer, MD, PhD, chairman of the […]
Scientists capture the fleeting transition of water into a highly reactive state: It’s the first direct observation of a hydroxyl-hydronium complex – important for a wide range of chemical and biological processes from the tails of comets to cancer treatment
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have uncovered a key step in the ionization of liquid water using the lab’s high-speed “electron camera,” MeV-UED. This reaction is of fundamental significance to a wide range of fields, including nuclear engineering, space travel, cancer treatment and environmental remediation. Their results were published in […]
Q&A: Loice Swisher, MD, on National Physician Suicide Awareness Day
Each year since 2018, doctors around the country recognize National Physician Suicide Awareness Day on September 17. One of the co-founders of this awareness campaign, Loice Swisher, MD, of Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, shared her own experience of suicidal thoughts after her daughter was left “neurologically devastated” following surgery on a malignant […]
Monoclonal antibody may prevent malaria
One dose of a new monoclonal antibody discovered and developed at the National Institutes of Health safely prevented malaria for up to nine months in people who were exposed to the malaria parasite. The small, carefully monitored clinical trial is the first to demonstrate that a monoclonal antibody can prevent malaria in people. The trial […]
Global BECCS potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation
A new collaborative research led by researchers from the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Ritsumeikan University, and Kyoto University found that although unlimited irrigation could increase global BECCS potential (via the increase of bioenergy production) by 60-71% by the end of this century, sustainably constrained irrigation would increase it […]
‘Multi-kingdom dialogue’ between internal, external microbiota: Implications for Functions Ranging from Tissue Repair to Antimicrobial Responses
National Institutes of Health scientists and their collaborators have identified an internal communication network in mammals that may regulate tissue repair and inflammation, providing new insights on how diseases such as obesity and inflammatory skin disorders develop. The new research is published in Cell. The billions of organisms living on body surfaces such as the […]