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The flagship health journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown quiet this year, and a report from MedPage Today indicates that a variety of actions by the Trump administration may be to blame for hamstringing the critical resource. Most strikingly, sources told MedPage that the journal’s scientific articles must now obtain clearance for publication from …

Phyllis Jones wakes up every morning to work up a sweat in countries all over the world, “and even sometimes on the moon,” she said, thanks to her favorite workout gadget, a virtual reality headset. Her focus on exercise is light-years away from where Jones, 66, of Aurora, Illinois, was just a few years ago. She had prediabetes, and her …

Exclusive: Despite tariff uncertainty, consumers ready to buy cars, survey finds  Axios Source link

A fear of needles is a common reason for avoiding vaccines, even among many adults. Now researchers have come up with a rather clever alternative: dental floss. Led by a team from Texas Tech University, the researchers first identified an often overlooked surface in the mouth as an entry point for vaccines: the junctional epithelium (JE), which sits where the …

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Gladstone Institutes have uncovered a potential new approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease using two existing FDA-approved cancer drugs. The drugs, letrozole and irinotecan, have been found to reduce tau protein clumps in mice, a key feature of Alzheimer’s, and improve cognitive functions like memory and learning. Repurposing Cancer Drugs …

Man Refuses to Call Nephew By His Legal Name Because He Finds It ‘Silly’  AOL.com Source link

Groundbreaking Study Finds Eggs Don’t Harm Heart Health  SciTechDaily Eating this breakfast staple every day could lower your cholesterol  BBC Science Focus Magazine The Never-Ending Debate: 2 Eggs A Day Could Lower Cholesterol, Latest Research Says  Study Finds Landmark study flips decades of cholesterol panic aimed at eggs  New Atlas Eggs Guilt-Free For ‘Bad’ Cholesterol, Experiment Shows  U.S. News & World Report Source link

Stanford-led study finds COVID vaccines saved far fewer lives than previously reported  Washington Times Covid vaccines ‘saved far fewer lives than first thought’  The Telegraph Study Suggests COVID Shots Saved Fewer Lives Compared With Prior Estimates  MedPage Today Globally, over 2.5 million COVID deaths prevented worldwide thanks to vaccines, data indicate  Medical Xpress ‘Aggressive mandate’ of Covid vaccines was ‘probably a bad idea’ as …

Robots with neurotic personalities, a la C-3PO of Star Wars fame, can come off as relatable to people, a new study finds. Gregory_DUBUS/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gregory_DUBUS/Getty Images While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — they haven’t really …

We’ve got fresh evidence for how weight can quickly be regained after weight-loss programs stop – but rather than looking at traditional dieting, here the researchers wanted to focus on anti-obesity medications (AOMs), as they continue to be used ever more widely. A team from Peking University in China reviewed 11 previous studies involving a total of 2,466 people. The …