All posts by LadyLively

  • Dolphins Off Florida, Georgia Have High Levels of Mercury

    Dolphins living off the coasts of Georgia and Florida have elevated levels of mercury in their bodies, new research shows. That could have implications for people, said a team led by Colleen Bryan, a research biologist at...

    • Posted June 14, 2024
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  • Even Temporary Loneliness Can Harm Physical Health

    You don’t consider yourself a lonely person generally, but sometimes have days where feelings of loneliness set in. If you’re one of those people, even that transient loss of connection with others could be impacting your physical...

    • Posted June 14, 2024
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  • Just 1 in 20 Animal Studies Yield Treatments That Make it to Humans

    Animal studies are often considered a first step in finding new drugs and treatments for human diseases, but a new review has discovered that precious few actually produce real-world therapies. Only 5% of therapies tested in animals...

    • Posted June 14, 2024
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  • New Form of Psychotherapy Might Help Ease Chronic Pain

    A new form of psychotherapy appears to work even better at treating chronic pain in older adults than gold-standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a new study finds. U.S. veterans who received emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET)...

    • Posted June 14, 2024
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  • Animal Studies Suggest New Treatment Target for Spinal Cord Injury

    Spinal cord injuries can cause the body to go haywire, with misfiring nerves causing dangerous “fight-or-flight” responses. This makes typical and normally harmless problems like having a full bladder prompt life-threatening complications like heart attack, stroke and...

    • Posted June 14, 2024
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  • Swimming ‘Microbots’ Could Speed Meds to Lung Tumors, Early Study Suggests

    Scientists have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver chemotherapy directly to lung cancer cells. In early testing, these microbots  extended the average survival time of lab mice with melanoma that had spread to...

    • Posted June 14, 2024
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  • Diphtheria-Like Germ Can Be Passed Between People and Pets

    The first two cases of a diphtheria-like illness being transmitted in the United States between people and their pets have been reported in Utah and Colorado. The respiratory illnesses occurred in 2022 and 2023 and involved the...

    • Posted June 13, 2024
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  • Supreme Court Rejects Case That Would Have Curbed Access to Abortion Drug

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a case that aimed to curb access to the controversial abortion drug mifepristone, saying the plaintiffs who brought the case to the court had no legal standing to do...

    • Posted June 13, 2024
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  • As Women Gain More Equality, Men Eat More Meat

    In countries where gender equality is becoming more of a reality, men’s meat consumption tends to rise relative to women’s, a new study shows. The phenomenon was seen mainly in richer countries in North America and Europe,...

    • Posted June 13, 2024
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  • ‘Dual Mutant’ Seasonal Flu Virus Could Make Some Treatments Ineffective

    Two human cases of “dual mutant” strains of H1N1 flu have been reported by U.S. health officials. Unfortunately, the genetic changes appear to render the leading flu antiviral, Tamiflu, less effective, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease...

    • Posted June 13, 2024
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