Home »
With the COVID-19 pandemic stretching health systems worldwide, Pacific countries have capitalized on their relative isolation to avoid the worst. Border closures and other measures have slowed and stopped the spread of the virus to the point some nations have recorded no cases at all. Even where the virus has not spread, however, establishing screening, quarantine and mass vaccination programs […]
Read more
In trying to think of an introduction for this article it occurred to me that had I been inside an MRI, the screen would have showed several brain regions lighting up like Times Square as my mind was attempting to solve the problem. First, the prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia and thalamus would recognize that the blank page meant that there […]
Read more
Alex Kich/Shutterstock By Raegan Davies/Sept. 7, 2021 3:29 pm EDT Something different comes to mind for everybody who hears the word “hormones” — maybe you think of your middle school health class or birth control prescription. However, there are so many other things in our everyday lives — from our environment to our diet — that can affect our hormones. Simply […]
Read more
VH-studio/Shutterstock By Preston Smith/Sept. 7, 2021 11:59 am EDT If you’re going to put extra effort into one space in your house, let it be your pantry. Every member of the family utilizes this space, and the pantry can serve a number of purposes, both practical and educational. In fact, many households organize their pantries in kid-friendly ways to help foster […]
Read more
When novelist Susan Orlean tweeted that she needed help with a familiar family struggle a couple of weeks ago, an army of people immediately started peppering her with advice. “Retreat! Retreat!” wrote one person. “Find a book and hide your face in it until it is safe to come out.” Saorise Ronan, left, won an oscar nomination for playing a […]
Read more
He might be a crazy optimist, but even Ted Lasso concedes that hope can feel terrible. “It’s the hope that kills you,” laments the American who finds himself coaching a British soccer team in his eponymous show. He echoed the words of John Cleese, whose character in the 1986 film Clockwise, cried: “I can take the despair. It’s the hope […]
Read more
As more restaurants, bars and concert venues — not to mention employers — begin requiring proof of vaccination against COVID-19, Coloradans have a few ways they can prove they’ve gotten their shots. They can either show their official COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card — the one with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logo on it — in person or […]
Read more
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has discovered how an important class of anti-cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors works, a finding that could help improve treatment and prolong survival for patients with breast cancer and other malignancies. PARP (poly[ADP-ribose] polymerase) inhibitors such as olaparib (Lynparza), rucaparib (Rubraca) and niraparib (Zejula) are used to treat patients with cancers of […]
Read more
Since the pandemic began, parents and researchers have been trying to understand how it affects children’s mental health. For 18 months, children have dealt with the disruption of their daily lives, fear of COVID-19 contagion, and sometimes death in the family. The emergence and spread of the coronavirus delta variant has renewed the uncertainty about young people’s safety as schools […]
Read more
With schools across the United States opening or set to open any day, the country is undergoing a fourth wave of the COVID-19 due to the much more contagious Delta variant that is ripping through the unvaccinated population. All children under the age of 12 are part of that population as vaccines have yet to be approved for America’s youngest […]
Read more