science / science - 4 years ago
A three-fold jump since 1975 in the percentage of adults worldwide who are obese has been driven mainly by a shift in diet and lack of exercise, but genes do play a role as well, according a large-scale study published Thursday. For people genetical...
science / science - 4 years ago
Elizabeth Turtle was overjoyed when, on June 26, she received a call from NASA: her project to send a drone quadcopter to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was given the green light, which came with a budget of nearly a billion dollars. "It's not going...
science / science - 4 years ago
Glaxo (GSK) gets an EU approval for Dovato, its single-tablet two-drug HIV regimen. It commences phase III studies on its anti GM-CSF antibody, otilimab, for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
science / science - 4 years ago
After weeks of rehearsals, Tommy Abelson took to the stage for his big night, something no one ever thought would be possible because of his disabilities. Tommy attends a music therapy program at the Center for Discovery near Hurleyville, New York....
science / science - 4 years ago
People aren't aware of how debilitating it can actually be.
science / science - 4 years ago
The creation of a new ‘biomaterial’ that stops bacteria sticking to medical devices such as catheters could help in the fight against superbugs. Researchers at Nottingham University have developed a new family of biomaterials - materials such as pla...
science / science - 4 years ago
Pakistan is reportedly short of hundreds of thousands of doses of anti-rabies vaccine with growing numbers of stray dogs leaving dozens of people with potentially deadly bites each day. Health officials in the province of Sindh said doctors in the ci...
science / science - 4 years ago
The number of fresh outbreaks of African swine fever in China has dropped this year and pig production is slowly returning to normal, its vice agriculture minister said, amid suspicions that the full extent of the disease is not being reported. Afri...
science / science - 4 years ago
Sometimes by the time they get back (the) patients are dead," laments Dr Jefferson Sibley, the hospital's medical director. Battered by years of civil war and then in 2014-16 by the worst Ebola epidemic in history, Liberia's health sector is on its...
science / science - 4 years ago
The Ebola clinic stands in a hospital compound in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a day's drive from the regional capital Goma but close to home for Reuters TV cameraman Djaffar Al Katanty. "We were seeing people dying day after day. On this...
science / science - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Ucommune is preparing to raise as much as $200 million in a 2020 U.S. initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said, a capital infusion that would help the loss-making Chinese startup battle WeWork Cos. across the world...
science / science - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- A U.S. law prohibiting federal agencies from buying Huawei Technologies Co. equipment isn’t legislative punishment but serves to protect against China gaining a strategic foothold in those agencies’ networks, the government said.Justic...
science / science - 4 years ago
Chubb becomes first major U.S. insurance company to restrict coverage for coal, citing the threat of climate change.
science / science - 4 years ago
A woman writes a response to Apoorva Mandavilli, who wrote a piece about how Lyme disease is easily treatable in the New York Times based on her son's experience.
science / science - 4 years ago
Scientists warn that heat waves are becoming increasingly common due to human-caused climate change.