A high-fat diet may fuel anxiety
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
New research shows when animals are fed a diet high in saturated fat for nine weeks, their gut bacteria change in ways that influence brain chemicals and fuel anxiety.
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R&B and Jazz Singer Angela Bofill Has Died
Black Health Matters
JUNE 17, 2024
We were saddened to learn of Angela Bofill’s death. The 70-year-old singer’s melodious voice was a constant presence on urban radio from her debut in 1978 through the 90s. According to Variety, she recorded ten studio albums and sang backup for Diana Ross and Kirk Whalum. People reported she died at her daughter’s home in Vallejo, California.
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Extended maternal care central factor to human other animal, longevity
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
The relationship between mother and child may offer clues to the mystery of why humans live longer than expected for their size -- and shed new light on what it means to be human -- according to a new study.
Dr. Ted Love On His Fight to Keep Sickle Cell Disease From Being Overlooked
Black Health Matters
JUNE 17, 2024
Growing up in the Jim Crow South of Alabama, Black folks surrounded him, but Dr. Ted Love had never met anyone with Sickle Cell Disease. He met his first SCD patients in medical school at a hospital in New Haven. “These patients would come in and get terrible care. Even though this was one of the most world-renowned hospitals. I was shocked that there was so much bias against them.
Bedtime battles: 1 in 4 parents say their child can't go to sleep because they're worried or anxious
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
One in four parents describe getting their young child to bed as difficult -- and these parents are less likely to have a bedtime routine, more likely to leave on a video or TV show, and more likely to stay with their child until they're asleep.
Women With SCD Sterilized By Coercion
Black Health Matters
JUNE 17, 2024
In certain parts of the country, women with SCD disease are being preyed upon and enduring a modern version of what can only be described as eugenics. Stat has spent a year investigating the reproductive autonomy of people with sickle cell, and this first story looks at what can only be described as women with SCD talked into sterilization. For the article, they interviewed 50 women.
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Are trans men being forgotten in conversations about HIV prevention?
Better Health For All
JUNE 17, 2024
A note on terminology: For purposes of brevity, this blog uses the terms ‘trans men’ or ‘transmasculine’ but can be taken as referring also to non-binary people and anyone assigned female at birth but who identifies differently. Discussions around HIV treatment and prevention in the trans community have historically been focussed on the staggeringly high rates of HIV in trans women, particularly those who have sex with men.
Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
Researchers hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their own, sustainable fashion and other textiles from a range of natural ingredients -- maybe even the chitin in crab shells or agar-agar from algae.
Pair of merging quasars at cosmic dawn
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JUNE 17, 2024
Astronomers have discovered a double-record-breaking pair of quasars. Not only are they the most distant pair of merging quasars ever found, but also the only pair confirmed in the bygone era of the Universe's earliest formation.
Ancient polar sea reptile fossil is oldest ever found in Southern Hemisphere
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere -- a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand's South Island. 246 million years ago, at the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, New Zealand was located on the southern polar coast of a vast super-ocean called Panthalassa. 'The nothosaur found in New Zealand is over 40 million years older than the previously oldest known sauropterygian fossils from the Southern Hemisphere.
A new way to measure aging and disease risk with the protein aggregation clock
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
Could measuring protein clumps in our cells be a new way to find out our risk of getting age-related diseases? Researchers propose the concept of a 'protein aggregation clock' to measure aging and health.
Direct evidence found for dairy consumption in the Pyrenees in the earliest stages of the Neolithic
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JUNE 17, 2024
A study on the remains of the Chaves and Puyascada caves, both located in the province of Huesca, Spain, yields the first direct proof of the consumption and processing of dairy products in the Pyrenees already at the start of the Neolithic period, approximately 7,500 years ago, as well as the consumption of pig. The results lead to doubts about the belief that these products were first used much later in the Pyrenean mountain range.
Investigating the origins of the crab nebula
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JUNE 17, 2024
A team of scientists used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.
Modified gravity theory: A million light years and still going
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
In a breakthrough discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of cosmology, scientists have unearthed new evidence that could reshape our perception of the cosmos. New research shows that rotation curves of galaxies stay flat indefinitely far out, corroborating predictions of modified gravity theory as an alternative to dark matter.
An earthquake changed the course of the Ganges: Could it happen again?
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JUNE 17, 2024
A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change course, according to a new study. The previously undocumented quake rerouted the main channel of the Ganges River in what is now densely populated Bangladesh, which remains vulnerable to big quakes.
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