Early tastings shorten breastfeeding
The earlier infants begin to taste small samples of solid food, the earlier they eat more food and stop breastfeeding. This is shown in a new study from Uppsala University and Sophiahemmet University, in which the mothers of 1,251 infants from all over Sweden participated. Almost half of the infants received tastings at the age […]
How High Is Breakthrough Infection Risk for People With Arthritis, HIV?
Among immunocompromised individuals vaccinated against COVID-19, solid organ transplant recipients as well as those with HIV and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were significantly more likely to experience breakthrough infections versus people without immune dysfunction, a retrospective study found. In a national database analysis involving over 650,000 people who received at least one vaccine dose, the highest […]
Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress: New observations of the atomic structure of iron reveal it undergoes
Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas: the Earth’s inner core. The metal at the inner core is under pressure about 360 million times higher than we experience in our everyday lives and temperatures approximately as hot as the Sun’s surface. Earth’s […]