A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.S. has found a link between the onset of chronic back pain and changes to the nucleus accumbens in the brain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of volunteers with…
After the announcement of Austria: the Federal government is Corona-rejected donations
The Coronavirus pandemic, the world will continue to be in respiratory: Significantly more than two million people worldwide are already infected with the Virus 143.142 of them in Germany. All the News about the Coronavirus-crisis you will find in the Ticker from FOCUS Online. The Federal government has no plans…
Spatial distancing rules for health workers may be insufficient: study
Current advice for COVID-19 health workers is based on the assumption that droplets bearing the virus travel no further than 2 meters and do not remain in the air. The body of published evidence suggests otherwise. Healthcare workers are advised to stay 1.5 m away from other COVID-19 patients—an adaptation…
Vitamin D: Are you getting enough of the sunshine vitamin? Symptoms of a deficiency
Vitamin D helps keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy by regulating the among of calcium and phosphate in the body. A lack of vitamin D can lead to bone deformities in children, such as rickets, and bone pain in adults. The UK is currently under lockdown to stop the spread…
Has technology altered your daily routine? Here’s how it could be harming you
Just like how kids are discouraged from prolonged use of electronic gadgets, adults have to discipline themselves, too. It is said that excess of anything is bad. And the lockdown has been teaching us that it is important to stick to a schedule. If you are not following one and…
Aspirin May Reduce Digestive Tract Cancer Risk — But It’s Not for Everyone
A new study found further evidence for the link between taking aspirin regularly and a reduced risk of colon cancer and other digestive tract cancers. Experts, however, caution that those potential benefits need to be weighed against the potential increased risk of bleeding. Experts say people should use medical guidelines…
Infected girls with 172 people contact – and no one
In the case of a nine-year-old French child who, in spite of a long period of time remained Coronavirus undetected infection infected no one, has the science: A recent in the US medical journal “Clinical Infectious Diseases” published study found that Coronavirus were Tests in all 172 of the contact…
4 Hacks that Make Jar Tomato Sauce Actually Taste Good
Nothing beats the taste of a homemade pasta sauce that’s simmered for hours. But sometimes you have a lone jar of “heat and eat marinara” and just want dinner now. However, you don’t have to sacrifice flavor. That’s when you get creative. I keep an emergency jar of marinara for…
Turning on the ‘off switch’ in cancer cells
A team of scientists led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified the binding site where drug compounds could activate a key braking mechanism against the runaway growth of many types of cancer. The discovery marks a critical step toward developing a…
New machine learning algorithm reduces need for brain-computer interfaces to undergo recalibration
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments. Brain-computer interfaces…