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When 40-year-old Lauren ‘Loz’ Antonenko found herself battling crippling fatigue and weight gain in spite of her diligent health and fitness regime, she knew something was wrong. ‘I’d had a pituitary tumour about ten years earlier,’ she told the Daily Mail. ‘But with treatment I eventually shrank it. Once these symptoms started up again, I went for a blood test …

By LUKE ANDREWS U.S. SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER Ahead of flu season, parents are being warned that healthy children could develop a life-threatening condition after being infected with the virus.  More than 6million children are infected with flu every year. Most recover without medical care, but among patients under five years old, between 6,000 and 25,000 are hospitalized annually while about 37 …

You’ve likely heard of ‘Ozempic face’, ‘Ozempic tongue’, ‘Ozempic feet’, and ‘Ozempic hands’. Here’s a new addition: Ozempic vulva.Making its turn around the social media frequently now, Ozempic vulva isn’t a medical diagnosis; rather, it’s a label coined by women noticing unexpected changes in their vulva or vaginal area after using Ozempic or similar GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.Ozempic is a widely …

An under-the-radar micronutrient is having a moment. Queuosine — just call it “Q” — is a molecule that humans can only get from foods and gut bacteria. It’s has been known to microbiologists for decades, who know it plays a role in protein synthesis — as well as cancer growth, brain health, and inflammation. Yet, it hasn’t been clear how …

This Little-Known Amino Acid Could Be the Secret to Rapid Weight Loss  SciTechDaily Source link

President Donald Trump has nicknamed himself “the fertilization president,” but six months after he formally pledged to expand access to in vitro fertilization, the White House has yet to issue a policy to that end. Since he campaigned on the issue last year, Trump’s push to support IVF has been complicated by backlash from conservatives and anti-abortion groups who see …

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the tabulation of the monthly figures was appointed by former President Joe Biden. Unlike Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president …

The “‘The Fighting Dragons of Ara” is a nebula in a huge molecular cloud. (Image credit: Image credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA. Image processing: R. Colombari and M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)) QUICK FACTS What it is: NGC 6188, also known as the Fighting Dragons of Ara or the Firebird Nebula Where it is: 4,000 light-years away, in the constellation Ara (“the …

How a Viral Coldplay Kiss-Cam Moment Spotlighted a Little-Known IT Company  The Wall Street Journal Astronomer launches ‘formal investigation’ after married CEO Andy Byron and HR boss caught on Coldplay ‘kiss cam’  Yahoo Home Recent photo shows Kristen Cabot wearing wedding ring cozied up to booze company CEO before ‘kiss cam’ fiasco  New York Post Scoop: Astronomer execs on leave after viral Coldplay …

Feeling a dull ache in the centre of her left shoulder, Emma Mapp thought she had simply tweaked a muscle while working out at the gym. But within a month that ‘niggle’ had worsened to the point where Emma couldn’t raise her left arm or turn her neck, and she struggled to wash and dress herself. ‘I limited my social …