Health

What time actually means “dinnertime” to you? It’s different for all of us and may even differ from day to day. A myriad of factors impact when we eat, from our work schedules to our social calendars and those of our family members. Whether we’re eating out, cooking at home, or ordering takeout also can affect our plans. There’s also …

JOHANNESBURG — JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s health minister on Tuesday called lenacapavir, the first twice-yearly HIV prevention jab in the world, a “groundbreaking” tool to fight the disease, but warned initial donated supply would be limited to nearly half a million people in the African country with the highest prevalence rate. This comes just weeks after the U.S. announced …

Changes in eyesight are one of the most familiar effects of getting older. Sit in a dim restaurant with someone over 60, and you might hear, “Hold on — let me pull out my cell phone. I need more light to read the menu!” But what if declining vision with age could actually be reversed? Researchers at UC Irvine have …

Raise your hand if you’ve ever caught your dog doing something they absolutely shouldn’t, and couldn’t help but laugh anyway. That mix of frustration, disbelief, and just a little bit of amusement? That’s exactly what unfolded in a viral video when one clever rescue Golden Retriever pushed her mom’s patience and ended up leaving thousands of viewers in stitches. Watch …

Michael, a 39-year-old from Los Angeles, began taking supplements after the anti-hair-loss pill finasteride left his semen watery. “ I always enjoyed blasting my girl in the face, for lack of a better term. So I started to look for a solution to fix that,” he says. Michael’s girlfriend, Lana, has enjoyed participating in his experiments. “ It’s just very interesting,” she …

State and county level vaccination data can mask school by school disparities in uptake. And cases keep going up, while reports on the ground suggest that there are more cases that go unreported. Michigan reports its First outbreak of avian flu since January, in turkeys. Over the last 30 days, 38 flocks have been affected, involving millions of birds. Live H5N1 virus can survive in …

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease occur when neurons gradually deteriorate and die. This progressive loss of brain cells leads to severe symptoms including memory decline, cognitive impairment, and difficulty with movement. Over time, these conditions can greatly diminish quality of life and often leave patients dependent on continuous care. Current medications can help ease symptoms but …

Scientists at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have created a pioneering brain imaging method that captures how the brain’s smallest blood vessels pulse in time with each heartbeat. These subtle movements may offer vital insights into aging and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Published in Nature …

For Stephen Greene, an attorney and father of two, the first symptoms of a brain tumor were subtle — and not obviously linked. He first noticed a tingling on the right side of his tongue and a slight loss of hearing in his right ear during the spring of 2024, when he was 44 years old. “I thought maybe I had …

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that can predict what a knee X-ray will look like in the future could transform how millions of patients with osteoarthritis are treated, researchers have said. Researchers at the University of Surrey said the developed technology used machine learning to visualise what the knee will look like in a year’s time and score its disease …