Month: September 2024

Researchers have long flagged antimicrobial resistance as a public health concern, but this study is the first to analyze such trends around the world and over time. View original article Contributor: Lizette Ortega

Blood pressure monitor? Fitness tracker? Here’s what you need. View original article Contributor: Hallie Levine

Scientists have taken the most detailed picture yet of the dynamic brain changes that unfold over the course of a human pregnancy and early infancy. View original article Contributor: Carolyn Y. Johnson

Proposed age bans and other limits on Instagram and TikTok use could harm some kids’ mental health, advocates say. View original article Contributor: Daniel Chang, McKenzie Beard

Kendric Cromer, 12, is among the first patients to be treated with gene therapy just approved by the F.D.A. that many other patients face obstacles to receiving. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata and Kenny Holston

Surveillance is the ability to identify potential threats as quickly as possible and share the resulting data widely. It is one of the tools in our defence against infections like mpox. We are currently seeing mpox clade I spreading in some African countries. In this blog post, we will explore the methods used by our … Read more

Figuring out what to say about someone’s weight gain or loss is really easy if you follow one of the golden rules of modern communication: Never comment on another person’s body.  Not everyone, however, gets the memo. Cherie Miller, an eating disorder and body image therapist in Southlake, Texas, hears often from clients on the … Read more

More than five percent of women who get their tubes tied later become pregnant, a new analysis suggests — and researchers say the failure of tubal sterilization procedures, which are widely considered permanent, “may be considerably more common than many expect.” View original article Contributor: Erin Blakemore