DURHAM, N.C. — It appears vampires had it right all along. Researchers recently highlighted the remarkable potential of a new treatment in the battle against aging: the blood of young creatures. According to researchers from Duke University, joining the circulatory systems of a young and an old mouse can delay aging at the cellular level […]
At a briefing on global health issues today, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said there are concerning trends ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter, including rising deaths in parts of the Middle East and Asia and increased hospitalizations in multiple regions. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, included the caveat that data […]
Midland Health offers a free support group for all community members interested in learning about diabetic and cardiovascular health. COACH (Community Outreach and Cardiovascular Health) is a group of people diagnosed with heart disease who share everyday experiences or concerns and provide each other with encouragement, comfort and advice. CODE (Community Outreach for Diabetes Education) […]
Heading into the fall and winter, health officials and the public alike are better equipped to combat COVID-19 than at any point since the pandemic began in 2019, thanks mainly to a stronger wall of immunity in the population built up with vaccines and natural infections. But questions remain about how protected the public will […]
<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/new-study-reversing-ag.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/new-study-reversing-ag.jpg" data-sub-html="UA in vitro treatment reverses age-associated defects in HSCs. a, HSCs isolated from old mouse (100 weeks) BM were cultured for 3 days in the presence of 20 μM UA. After culture, 2,000 cells were transplanted in lethally irradiated primary recipient mice together with BM derived from competitor mice. At the endpoint, BM […]
6 September 2023, 17:03 | Updated: 6 September 2023, 17:44 How did Cate Blanchett prepare to play fictional conductor Lydia Tár? By Maddy Shaw Roberts Cate Blanchett’s stirring words about her favourite classical music feature in a limited-edition Gramophone Magazine special, in collaboration with Classic FM. Loading audio… Cate Blanchett, who scooped a Best Actress […]
The author of “Blood Pudding,” Gerald Yukevich (Ivan Cox), will be signing books at Edgartown Books on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2 to 4 pm. “Blood Pudding” is a historical novel about the gritty but loving Malinowski family, who are immigrants from Poland. The story involves Tad struggling under the dictatorship of his father and with […]
FIVE people have died after developing a ‘flesh-eating’ bug after swimming off the east coast of America. One person in Connecticut, another in New York and three people in North Carolina, died between July and August this year after being infected with Vibrio vulnificus. 1 Vibrio vulnificus can be found in seawater and brackish water, and has thrived because of […]
Dive Brief: Guardant Health has stopped a trial of a minimum residual disease (MRD) test early after seeing the results of an interim analysis. The study, called COBRA, was evaluating the ability of Guardant’s MRD blood test to improve outcomes in patients with stage II colon cancer after surgery. Patients underwent circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid […]