The FINANCIAL -- Pregnant women may be especially vulnerable to developing more severe cases of COVID-19 following SARS-CoV-2 infection, but little is known about their anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response or how it may affect their offspring.
Read More »British Reporter — Most men know about the general rules for healthy living: eat healthy, exercise, get lots of sleep and water, etc. But when you go a step further and look at health on a micronutrient level, it can be overwhelming.
MoreThe FINANCIAL — Experts across the University weigh in on which lessons the pandemic drove home and what immediate measures are needed to prevent future loss. According to University of Pennsylvania, with states dropping mask mandates, businesses opening up, and the U.S.
MoreBritish Reporter — A new class of illusion–“Scintillating Starburst”–underscores the highly constructive nature of visual perception. “Scintillating Starburst” Offers Insights into Visual Processing, New York University notes.
MoreBritish Reporter — Post-Brexit free trade deals could lead to unhealthier eating in the UK and more diet-related deaths. But harms could be offset with targeted farming subsidies, now possible because of Brexit, and by making concerns for healthy eating central to
MoreThis year’s Harvard Nutrition and Obesity Symposium took a hard look at the relationship between the individual’s dietary health and the planet’s environmental well-being. Presented by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard in partnership with the Harvard Medical School Division of
MoreBritish Reporter — We probably cannot slow the rate at which we get older, because of biological constraints, an unprecedented study of lifespan statistics in human and non-human primates has confirmed.
MoreBritish Reporter — New software will help reduce adverse drug reactions thanks to a joint investment of £2 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Legal & General.Nearly half of older people in the UK take five or more medicines. This
MoreBritish Reporter — A new study has found the mental health of home-carers deteriorated more during lockdown than non-carers. The research led by the University of Glasgow’s MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit with colleagues at the University of Essex – found
MoreThe FINANCIAL — In cultures that place a high value on conventional gender norms, particularly those that prize men as the breadwinners in a family, their unemployment plays an outsized role in whether a romantic relationship ultimately succeeds or fails.
MoreBritish Reporter — Globally, the majority of mental health care continues to be provided in psychiatric hospitals, and human rights abuses and coercive practices remain all too common. But providing community-based mental health care that is both respectful of human rights and
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