Category: Health News
Children’s Feces Contain Ten Times More Microplastics than Those of Adults
Babies are proportionally more exposed to plastic than adults because of Baby bottles, toys, floor mats, and pacifiers. Even newborn babies’ first stools are contaminated! The impact of this …Evolution: New Study Explains How Humans Have Lost Their Tails
Unlike most mammals, humans, and the great apes do not have tails. Scientists have now identified the genetic mutation that caused this loss. They also found that it came …Oral Health: 5 Benefits Of Going To A Dental Clinic
Maintaining good oral hygiene is essential for everyone’s general health. Poor oral hygiene can lead to health issues, like gum diseases, cavities, bone loss, high blood pressure, fertility problems, …MIT Engineers Grow Functioning Replicas of the Pancreas Out of Both Healthy and Cancerous Pancreatic Tissue
Scientists and engineers from two institutes, namely Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, collaborated and developed a new way of growing organoids that can function …Assisted Living vs. Memory Care: 6 Key Differences
As our loved ones advance in age, it becomes tasking to care for them, especially when they have health issues, including cognitive impairments (conditions affecting brain functioning) such as …A New Method of Bioprinting Neurons Could Decrease the Need for Testing on Animals
A new method of bioprinting adult neuron cells has been developed by researchers. They used a new laser-assisted technology that improves cell viability and functionality. An Improvement on previous …Inhibiting the Effects of the TREX1 Enzyme Could Stop the Spread of Breast Cancer
The compression of certain cells can go so far as compromising nuclear envelope integrity by rupturing the nucleus, leading to DNA damage which then promotes the invasion of the …Two Amino Acids Administered Intranasally Could Cure Parkinson’s Disease
In their quest for a cure for Parkinson’s disease scientists have developed two peptides. These peptides when administered intranasally slowed the death of dopaminergic neurons thereby improving the symptoms …
Health Insurance: Why It Is Important to Be Insured All the Time
It is easy to ignore health insurance if you are young, however, health issues do not really depend on age alone. You can still be quite young and face …