Category: Lifestyle

Mark Kincaid greeted spectators coming to the high school football game as he collected donations for his son’s baseball team. His daughter, a cheerleader, was on the field while his wife and one of their three sons watched the game. As a woman dropped money into Mark’s bucket, his expression went blank. He stumbled backward. […]

British cigarette maker BAT said Wednesday that its US biotech division Kentucky BioProcessing will launch trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine, developed using tobacco plant technology. The group said the US Food and Drug Administration has approved its application for a vaccine candidate, paving the way for an initial phase one clinical trial in 180 […]

Physical activity (PA) might not protect against schizophrenia risk, according to a research letter published online Dec. 9 in JAMA Psychiatry. Sergi Papiol, Ph.D., from the University Hospital in Munich, Germany, and colleagues examined the association between PA and schizophrenia risk using data from the U.K. Biobank. The researchers observed no association between PA and […]

Unreported physical abuse in the first five years of life has long-term detrimental effects, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in Pediatrics. Jennifer E. Lansford, Ph.D., from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues recruited children at kindergarten entry and followed them into adulthood. The probability that the child was physically abused […]

There is significant state-level variation for outcomes among patients listed for heart transplantation in the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 9 in JAMA Network Open. Emmanuel Akintoye, M.D., from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, and colleagues evaluated state-level variation in outcomes of 15,036 adult patients listed […]

A new analysis of studies published by top nutrition journals in 2018 shows that 13.4 percent disclosed involvement from the food industry, and studies with industry involvement were more likely to report results favorable to industry interests. Gary Sacks of Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS […]

Fractured sleep, daytime sleepiness and other signs of disturbance in one’s circadian rhythm are common complaints of people with Alzheimer’s disease, and the problems only get worse as the disease progresses. But the reason for the link between Alzheimer’s and circadian dysfunction is not well understood. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. […]