A seven-year study led by University of Manchester researchers has concluded that fluoridation of the water supply may provide a small benefit to children's dental health.Credit: National Institute for Health ResearchThe benefits are smaller than presented in previous research studies-- carried out 50 years back-- when fluoride toothpaste was less extensively available in the...
Morning light assists keep our biological rhythms on the right track. Daylight saving time throws that off.Daylight saving time has finished, and many Americans have turned their clocks back an hour.On November 6, every state in the United States other than Hawaii and the majority of Arizona changed from daylight saving time, or DST,...
Public opinion is shifting to wanting a much more proactive approach to animal well-being rather than a reactive approach to animal cruelty.University of Adelaide specialists asked the Australian public about their perception of the penalties for animal cruelty.The court of public opinionRochelle Morton, a Ph.D. student from the University of Adelaide's School of Animal...
Credit: Public DomainTUESDAY, Nov. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News)-- More and more anxious patients are coming intoxicated for dental appointments, frequently causing dentists to postpone treatment until the patient sobers up, new survey data indicate.As more states are legalizing cannabis, more than half of dentists (52%) report seeing patients intoxicated with weed or other drugs,...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainA group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, collaborating with an associate from Myunggok Medical Research Center, has found that test mice deliberately overfed to make them obese put up a more robust immune reaction against the herpes simplex virus two than did mice fed usually.In their...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA hallmark of the autism spectrum disease, ASD, is the reluctance to develop eye contact with others in normal conditions. Although eye contact is a critically essential part of daily communications, researchers have been restricted in studying the neurological basis of live social contact with eye contact in ASD due to...
Normal usage of drugs to reduced cholesterol and control kind 2 diabetes may decrease the threat of the degenerative eye illness associated with aging, referred to as AMD, discovers a pooled information analysis of the available proof released online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.The outcomes show that these common drugs are connected to...
Polymyxin “last-resort” antibiotics kill bacteria by crystallizing their cell membranes. Credit: TED HOROWITZ/THE IMAGE BANK/GETTY IMAGESTo eliminate drug-resistant bacteria, "last-resort" antibiotics borrow a method from Medusa's playbook: petrification.New high-resolution microscope pictures show that a class of antibiotics called polymyxins crystallizes bacteria's cell membranes. The honeycomb-shaped crystals that form transform the microorganisms' normally supple skins...
Credit: UnsplashA group of scientists from Helmholtz Munich has identified a new use for vitamin K, typically recognized for its part in blood clotting. In its fully reduced configuration, the researchers discovered that vitamin K operates as an anti-oxidant by efficiently inhibiting ferroptotic cell death. Ferroptosis is a natural kind of cell death in...
Credit: Unsplash / Mark PatonDigital health tools may help identify early indications of hearing loss and avoid additional damage, a new study highlights. Virtual care, combined with newly available over-the-counter hearing aids, could help people residing in rural areas and far from experts to maintain their hearing on point."We can really meet people where...
