Who Is a Candidate for the Shingles Vaccine?
Healthy adults aged 50 years and older are candidates for Shingrix. Learn about who should and shouldn’t get the shingles vaccine Healthy adults aged 50 years and older are candidates for the shingles vaccine Shingrix. There is no age limit, and you can get the Shingrix vaccine even if you have already had shingles, have […]
Preterm Birth, Autism Link Cemented
Forty-plus years of Swedish birth and health data demonstrated a strong relationship between premature delivery and autism risk, according to a new analysis. Among more than 4 million singleton births from 1973 to 2013, the risk for diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was 2.1% for children born prior to 37 weeks’ gestation compared with […]
If You’re Buying Balsamic Vinegar, Here’s How To Tell If It’s Really From Modena
Vinegar has been making a lot of noise over the past couple of years for a number of reasons, ranging from the apparent novelty of drinking vinegar to its health benefits, which include weight management, blood sugar control and gut health. If you even say “apple” near Siri or Alexa, it seems, you’re inundated with […]
Slow Going With CAR T-Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors
Almost 4 years after the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies received FDA approval, the transformative impact of the treatment on refractory hematologic malignancies has yet to translate into the field of solid tumors. The increased molecular complexity of solid tumors and lack of good antigen targets have coalesced into a formidable roadblock for […]
New study confirms relationship between toxic pollution, climate risks to human health
For more than 30 years, scientists on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have focused on human-induced climate change. Their fifth assessment report led to the Paris Agreement in 2015 and, shortly after, a special report on the danger of global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The Nobel Prize-winning team stressed […]
Scientists create tool to explore billions of social media messages, potentially predict political and financial turmoil
For thousands of years, people looked into the night sky with their naked eyes — and told stories about the few visible stars. Then we invented telescopes. In 1840, the philosopher Thomas Carlyle claimed that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Then we started posting on Twitter. Now scientists […]
Physicians: Stop Dreading Call
Even though I completed residency almost 15 years ago, it is easy to remember the dread I experienced before taking hospital call. The sinking feeling in my stomach as the call date loomed near, the hypervigilance and terror every time my beeper went off in the middle of the night, the fear of imagined catastrophes […]
Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness
Hundreds of millions of years ago, in the middle of what would eventually become Canada’s Yukon Territory, an ocean swirled with armored trilobites, clam-like brachiopods and soft, squishy creatures akin to slugs and squid. A trove of fossils and rock layers formed on that ancient ocean floor have now been unearthed by an international team […]
Your Skin Will Probably Change During Perimenopause. Here’s What To Do About It
A couple of years ago, while on a bike-packing trip through Armenia and Georgia, my friend Amy and I walked through the streets of Tbilisi. We were both 49 years old at the time, and I told her about how, over the last year, I felt as if I had become more emotional and more […]
Your Skin Will Probably Change During Perimenopause. Here’s What To Do About It
A couple of years ago, while on a bike-packing trip through Armenia and Georgia, my friend Amy and I walked through the streets of Tbilisi. We were both 49 years old at the time, and I told her about how, over the last year, I felt as if I had become more emotional and more […]