This is a video of a ball being bounced on one of the world’s bounciest surfaces. It makes it sound like some super secret scientific material, but *spoiler alert* it’s just a balloon stretched over a cup. Although they could’ve saved themselves the work of buying a balloon and cup and just used my rock…
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID The experimental drug TEMPOL may be a promising oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19, suggests a study of cell cultures by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.…
Credit: Pexels.com A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song. This phenomenon, called the “speech-to-song illusion,” can offer a window into how the mind operates and give insight into conditions that affect people’s ability to communicate, like aphasia and aging people’s…
Chile on Thursday became the latest country to limit use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, linked to rare blood clots, when a 31-year-old man developed thrombosis after being immunized. Pending further investigation and as a “preventative and proactive measure,” the shot will in future be administered only to people 45 and over, the health ministry…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Forty years on since the first AIDS cases were reported, the United Nations said Thursday it was cautiously optimistic that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—the virus that causes the disease—could be beaten by 2030. The UNAIDS agency said at least 40 countries were on track to achieve a 90-percent drop in…
In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021 file photo, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses are prepared for members of the community 12 years and up, at a clinic held by Community of Hope, outside the Washington School for Girls in southeast Washington. The World Health Organization’s top vaccines expert says that immunizing children against the coronavirus “is…
Moderate physical activity after a sports-related concussion is associated with improved anxiety symptoms in adolescent athletes, according to a new research study. In the study, teens recovering from a sports-related concussion who spent more time doing moderate physical activity had anxiety symptom scores reduced by 75%, whereas teens who spent less time in moderate physical…
In 2008, the Department of Labor (DOL) paid for Tony Adams, a 48-year-old coal miner, to have a chest x-ray. His doctor found stage I black lung disease. Yet Adams’ claim for medical benefits was denied. This was because the insurance group that represented his employer hired a different ― more credentialed ― doctor as…
Almost 14% of transected invasive melanoma biopsies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham were up-staged on final surgical pathology, in a review of cases at the university. Had their true Breslow depths been known before definitive surgery, sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsies and wider surgical margins would likely have been recommended. The findings led…
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure appears during a Senate Committee on Finance hearing for her nomination to be Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, United States Department of Health and Human Services, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. The new head of the federal agency that oversees health benefits for nearly 150 million Americans…
