Health

NCI axes funding for pediatric brain cancer trial consortium, shifts focus to broader oncology group  Fierce Biotech A major childhood brain cancer network is ending  statnews.com Pratiti Bandopadhayay: Urgent Need to Sustain Funding for Pediatric Brain Tumor Trials  Oncodaily HHS winds down pediatric brain tumor pact after 26 years, prioritizing other childhood cancer work  Endpoints News Parvati Tiwari: Advocates Express Alarm Over NCI’s Decision …

Not pulling the rom-com-inspired strings here, but it should not even be up for debate why paying attention to heart health is so important. This one organ of the human body is glorified for all things emotional (isn’t it romantic!), and not nearly enough for all the functional purposes it serves. The heart is responsible for pumping blood, oxygen, and …

6 things people over 60 do differently, and it’s why they’re happier  VegOut If you still do these 5 things in your 60s, you are truly winning at life  Eluxe Magazine 6 signs you’re thriving after 65, even if you don’t realize it  VegOut If you’re doing these 7 things after 65, you’re winning at retirement  VegOut 9 subtle habits of people in their …

‘We are sweating’: Missouri kindergarten vaccination rates fall below immunity threshold  Missouri Independent Vaccine skepticism crisis spills over as students return to school  USA Today Data shows vax rates dropped in Lancaster County; outbreak risk increases  LancasterOnline Class preparation must include vaccines, Ohio’s health director says  Toledo Blade Ohio doctors concerned by declining vaccination rates in children  FOX 8 News Source link

2 People, 1 Cat Exposed to Rabid Bat in South Utica  WKTV Source link

By many measures, the coronavirus is a thing of the past. Masks have been stored away. Social distancing is just a vague memory. Interest in vaccines is waning. COVID, for many, feels like an inevitable annoyance, like the flu. Then, each summer, we get a rude reminder. The season of travel and fun continues to bring a spike in COVID-19 …

Researchers developing vaccines to treat cancer have been granted access to one of the UK’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers. The team at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine will be allowed to use the device, know as Dawn, for 10,000 hours as part of a government scheme. They will be analysing tens of thousands of data …

A groundbreaking biosensor powered by protein design and smartphone cameras could transform how we measure the body’s stress hormone, cortisol, bringing lab-level precision to point-of-care testing. Credit: Shutterstock A protein-based biosensor measures cortisol with high accuracy. Smartphone compatibility makes stress testing more accessible. Cortisol plays a key role in regulating essential body functions such as blood pressure and metabolism, and …

The patient: A 52-year-old woman in The Hague, Netherlands The symptoms: The woman visited an outpatient psychiatric clinic and told the doctors that when she looked at people’s faces, she saw them transform into the faces of dragons. She also saw dragon-like faces appear in front of her spontaneously, even when no people were present. These hallucinations were disturbing and …

An aging population, still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, is seeking more treatment for dizziness and imbalance in Minnesota. Clinics specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of dizziness have opened or expanded across the Twin Cities, and their appointments are filling up. Associated Hearing Care hired a specialist and installed a rotating diagnostic chair last year at its St. Paul …