By Zenger News Desk CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Cleaner air may reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s and other dementias, reveals a study. Cars and factories produce a fine particulate matter: PM2.5 that USC-led studies have linked to memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease. Smaller than the width of human hair, these tiny particles pose a big problem. […]

By Zenger News Desk WASHINGTON — A new study attempts to determine the size and scope of bullying that kids with food allergies experience. The findings of the study were published in the ‘Journal of Pediatric Psychology.’ Living with a food allergy can greatly impact a child’s everyday life — from limiting participation in social activities to being […]

By Zenger News Desk LONDON — An anti-viral gene that impacts the risk of both Alzheimer’s disease and severe Covid-19 has been identified by the research team of University College London in a recent study. The researchers estimate that one genetic variant of the OAS1 gene increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by about 3-6 percent in the population […]

By Martin M Barillas Scientists from the University of Buffalo have developed a new treatment for inflammatory pain with minimal adverse side effects that may be an alternative to addictive opioids. Writing in Nature Communications, they described how their research into the origins of pain focused on sensory neurons called nociceptors, which activate in response […]

By Abigail Klein Leichman Replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners is not a good idea, it turns out. While it’s known that added sugar is not good for our bodies, now we also know that six FDA-approved artificial sweeteners — aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k — could cause long-term health problems as well. […]

By Abigail Klein Leichman The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 loses considerable effectiveness six months after the second dose, according to new Israeli research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study echoes findings published by Pfizer and Kaiser Permanente in Lancet this week, showing the vaccine’s effectiveness drops from 88 percent to 47 […]

By Brian Blum People living with cystic fibrosis received encouraging news in late 2019: A new Trikafta treatment combining three drugs — elexacaftor, tezacaftor and ivacaftor — reduces symptoms for this ultimately deadly disease that affects some 90,000 people worldwide. The new medication, although not a cure, works wonders for the 80 percent of cystic […]

By Vandita Agrawal El cambio climático, la inversión en infraestructura para contrarrestar la enorme Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta por parte de China, así como la diplomacia mundial de las vacunas, serán el centro de las conversaciones cuando el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joseph R. Biden Jr., reciba hoy a los primeros ministros […]

By Martin M Barillas Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the psychoactive substance that creates the “high” experienced by cannabis users — caused birth defects in laboratory mice in a recent study, piquing concerns over its possible effects on pregnant women and their babies. Cannabis is the most common illicit drug consumed by pregnant women in countries where […]