The New York lifeguard lost his sight after infection of a rare amoebic infection caused by a widespread error that many people made while swimming. For all people wearing contact lenses, this is a key warning – they always remove lenses before entering the water to avoid serious risk. Maureen Cronin, a 53-year-old rescuer and […]
Imagine you have just finished training. Your legs are like jelly, your lungs are burning and you just want to fall on the couch. But instead you get up and go for an energetic walk. Although this may seem contrary to intuition, performing slight activity after intensive training – known as “Active recovery” – suggested […]
Can you tell us about your origin and the current role? My name is Phillip Mitchell, I am currently the scientific director at the Charles River Laboratories. I have experience in biochemistry and doctorate. In molecular biology. My career lasts over 30 years in the field of discovering medicines, including a role in the academic […]
Do you consider sugar substitutes to be a safer alternative to sugar? Think again. Recent studies have shown that a common artificial sweetener used in dietary carbonated drinks and other zero confectionery food products can actually increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In the last test Metabolism published in the Cellism journal, scientists […]
The immune systems of patients with cancer are highly disturbed, and people who have a larger number of immune cells in the blood, have a better survival rate, finds a new study using a pioneering technique developed by scientists from UCL and Francis Crick Institute. Tool described in Nature GeneticsIt is called immune lymphocyte estimation […]
The mysterious symptoms of a 77-year-old man, fever and frequent falls due to the fatigue of doctors were surprised for several days until they diagnosed him with a potentially deadly disease of legionaries associated with his holidays in Lake Iowa. According to thing Published in CMAJ, an unidentified patient was admitted to the Winnipeg hospital […]
Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the beginning of type 2 diabetes (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high incidence and mortality around the world. In the affected people, insulin is not able to facilitate glucose capture by tissues and organs, which leads to an increase in blood glucose (chronic hyperglycemia). Because the skeletal muscle is […]
You may never realize how often water affects our lives until you have disorders such as a 25-year-old young mother from Great Britain, who describes simple daily activities, such as washing hands, drinking water or bathing as ” Dresminally painful. “ The extremely rare condition called the watercraft makes Kendall Bryce from Durham in Great […]
You may never realize how often water affects our lives until you have disorders such as a 25-year-old young mother from Great Britain, who describes simple daily activities, such as washing hands, drinking water or bathing as ” Dresminally painful. “ The extremely rare condition called the watercraft makes Kendall Bryce from Durham in Great […]
Swimming in some lakes with fixed water can lead to bacteria infection that can cause pneumonia, and people who are involved in swimming in open waters should be aware of this risk, say the authors of the article of the practice published in (). “”, Writes Dr. Ashley Bryson, a resident of internal medicine at […]