Heart disease remains the largest killer in Australia and around the world. A new study has shown that a protein therapy- recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-AB (rhPDGF-AB) – could improve outcomes following heart attack. After a heart attack, scar tissue forms and this negatively affects heart function. Now, researchers from The Westmead Institute for Medical…
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Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient disease, is the leading infectious cause of death globally, yet the world’s only licensed TB vaccine, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), was developed a century ago. Given to infants via a needle placed just under the skin, BCG protects babies from a form of the disease called disseminated TB but is far less…
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A new machine learning platform can identify patients with colorectal cancer and helps predict their disease severity and survival, according to a study involving samples from thousands of subjects. The noninvasive method adds to recent advances in technologies that analyze circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and could help spot colorectal cancers in at-risk patients at earlier…
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Settling a decades-long debate about whether small Tyrannosaurus rex specimens represent a separate genus or rather just “kids” of their kind, a new examination of thinly sliced bones from two specimens at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Illinois suggests the latter. The specimens were juveniles that had not yet experienced a major growth…
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The Trump administration is expected to announce later this week that it will ban mint-, fruit- and dessert-flavored e-cigarette cartridges popular with teenagers, but allow menthol and tobacco flavors to remain on the market. Flavored liquid nicotine used in open tank systems can continue to be sold, administration officials said, an important concession to vape…
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When Douglas Parr proposed to Nadine Christensen a year ago, the two knew almost immediately that they would get married in their home in Brisbane, Australia and that they would get married on New Year’s Eve 2019. The end of the year and the start of the new one marks the end of what has…
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For all of my adult life, I’ve reveled in rare rib-eye steaks and oozing Camembert. I won’t let go of my drumstick until I’ve gnawed off every bit of cartilage and golden skin, and it’s best to not even talk about bacon so crisp that it won’t bend for that first porky bite. Yet over…
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Kiss your lover at midnight. Fling open all your windows and doors. But whatever you do to celebrate the arrival of 2020, don’t eat lobster. These are some of the superstitions and traditions that, according to some cultures, will help you avoid setbacks and barrel into the new year with good fortune and cheer. There’s…
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Giving antibiotics to infants may increase their risk for developing allergies, a new study suggests. Researchers used records of 798,426 children in the Military Health System database from 2001 to 2013, tracking their antibiotic prescriptions in infancy and allergy diagnoses in childhood. About 17 percent of them were treated with one or more courses of…
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In the fall, when I was supposed to be thinking about the best restaurants I’d reviewed over the year, I found myself thinking often and happily about a four-year-old restaurant that I’d never reviewed at all: the Four Horsemen, in Brooklyn. It had opened in the summer of 2015, and while I’d enjoyed it, gone…
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