More than half a billion people worldwide live with undetected, untreated hypertension, even as the disease burden shifts from rich nations to poor countries with limited resources to detect and manage the condition. In what researchers describe as a “massive public health failure,” nearly half of the 1.28 billion people…
Bus Stop by Bus Stop, Denver-Area Officials Microtarget Vaccine Hesitancy
AURORA, Colo. — John Letson had seen too many apocalyptic movies to feel comfortable getting a covid-19 vaccine initially. “I was completely against it,” the 40-year-old movie buff said, referencing “I Am Legend” and “Children of Men,” in which humanity is in jeopardy, as examples of what could go wrong….
Bus Stop by Bus Stop, Denver-Area Officials Microtarget Vaccine Hesitancy
AURORA, Colo. — John Letson had seen too many apocalyptic movies to feel comfortable getting a covid-19 vaccine initially. “I was completely against it,” the 40-year-old movie buff said, referencing “I Am Legend” and “Children of Men,” in which humanity is in jeopardy, as examples of what could go wrong….
By age 10, retinoblastoma patients’ learning and life skills rebound
Retinoblastoma starts in the retina, the thin membrane at the back of the eye. Most patients are infants or toddlers when their cancer is found. Without treatment, the cancer spreads. Thanks to chemotherapy, surgery and other treatments, 96% of patients survive. St. Jude researchers studied how survivors fared years later…
Why we remember more by reading—especially print—than from audio or video
During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead to digital texts or multimedia coursework. As a professor of linguistics, I have been studying how electronic communication compares to traditional print when it comes to learning. Is comprehension the same whether a person reads a…
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade. “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra, 39, said of the bounty she’d just picked up at a food pantry, pulling out a ready-made salad and a container of…
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade. “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra, 39, said of the bounty she’d just picked up at a food pantry, pulling out a ready-made salad and a container of…
Mapping functional connectivity in 3-D artificial brain model by analyzing neural signals
The human brain is less accessible than other organs because it is covered by a thick, hard skull. As a result, researchers have been limited to low-resolution imaging or analysis of brain signals measured outside the skull. This has proved to be a major hindrance in brain research, including research…
Ouch! Needle-Phobic People Scarred by So Many Images of Covid Shots
Each night it’s the same. Story after story on the TV news is about the covid vaccination effort, and they are all illustrated with footage of needles sinking into exposed upper arms. Could those visuals, ostensibly making this all seem routine, backfire? More than causing squeamish people to look away…
Huntington’s disease driven by slowed protein-building machinery in cells
In 1993, scientists discovered that a single mutated gene, HTT, caused Huntington’s disease, raising high hopes for a quick cure. Yet today, there’s still no approved treatment. One difficulty has been a limited understanding of how the mutant huntingtin protein sets off brain cell death, says neuroscientist Srinivasa Subramaniam, Ph.D.,…
Expert: 40% of people won't be able to conceive on their own by 2050
More than 40% of people will need technological help conceiving children by 2050, expert predicts: Provocative book claims ‘everywhere chemicals’ have driven sperm counts down by more than 50% in the past 40 years Dr Shanna Swan is a foremost expert on fertility at the Icahn School of Medicine at…