SEATTLE – At what age do you feel 65? A 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people experience the health problems of a 65-year-old, according to a new scientific study. Researchers found 76-year-olds in Japan and 46-year-olds in Papua New Guinea have the same level of age-related health problems…
IMAGE: Bacillus bacteria, marked with green fluorescence, changed its growth pattern around other members of the THOR community, spreading around and over other bacteria. view more Credit: Gabriel Lozano and Jo Handelsman MADISON, Wis. — “Microbial communities run the world,” says Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “People…
IMAGE: This is Meghna Tare, UTA chief sustainability officer. view more Credit: UT Arlington What began as a brainstorming session last year about how to unify sustainability efforts across North Texas is now the North Texas Regional Center of Expertise, or RCE, thanks to efforts led by Meghna Tare, University of Texas at Arlington chief sustainability…
NHS-approved PARP inhibitor therapy found to boost the body’s immune response Drugs could be used to increase number of patients who respond to immunotherapies Treatment developed for ovarian and breast cancers could also work in some lung cancers Precision cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a previously unknown ability to boost the immune system, and…
IMAGE: Predictions of antimicrobial abundance in all countries and territories in the world. Map coloured according to predicted abundance of antimicrobial from light blue (low abundance) to dark blue (high abundance). view more A comprehensive analysis of sewage collected in 74 cities in 60 countries has yielded the first, comparable global data, which show the levels…
IMAGE: Claire Tugault-Lafleur, a postdoctoral fellow in UBC’s food, nutrition and health program, was lead author of the study. view more Credit: UBC Faculty of Land & Food Systems Two surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13-per-cent decrease in the amount of fruit and vegetables being consumed by Canadians, new University of British Columbia research…
NEW YORK, NY (March 8, 2019)–TB Alliance’s new drug application (NDA) for the novel tuberculosis (TB) drug candidate pretomanid has been accepted for review by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The application is for the use of pretomanid as part of a new regimen, in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid, for the…
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Public officials and health experts had given several warnings: Do not allow a student in school if they had not been vaccinated against measles. Still, during New York City’s largest measles outbreak in a decade, a school in Brooklyn…
Facebook announced Thursday its first policy to combat misinformation about vaccines, following in the footsteps of Pinterest and YouTube. The social network is adopting an approach similar to the one it uses to tackle fake news: The company will not remove incorrect content, but it will aim to reduce the reach of that content by…
Fashion week Some of our favorite images from the fall 2019 season in Paris. The marathon fashion season that kicked off in New York in early February has finally come to a close in Paris, wrapping up with the last of the women’s ready-to-wear shows. As the fashion throngs wing their way home, we look…