Essential items to stock in your medicine cabinet for cold and flu season - NPR
Cold and flu season is here. Before someone in your household gets hit, make sure you have these essential meds and comfort items in your medicine cabinet.
Divergent genomic evolution in astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas - Nature
Longitudinal genomic analyses in patients with astrocytoma or oligodendrioglioma suggest that these two types of tumour differ in the mechanisms by which they become resistant to treatment, with astrocytomas accumulating copy-number alterations and chromosoma…
Hidden reaction pathways inform additive engineering for perovskite LEDs - Nature
Resolution and control of the hidden solution-phase chemistry of 5-aminovaleric acid added to perovskite precursor solutions is described for producing films with a near-unity mean peak photoluminescence quantum yield and near-infrared perovskite LE…
Intrinsic physicochemical activity at microplastic–water interfaces - Nature
Commodity microplastics exhibit intrinsic physicochemical activity at water interfaces, manifested by spontaneous generation of reactive oxygen species, challenging the prevailing paradigm of plastic inertness, with implications for human health and the envir…
Former motocross rider shares how opioid addiction led to fentanyl use, sepsis, and the loss of his nose - WHEC.com
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A man who lost his nose after a near-fatal infection is sharing his story in hopes of helping others. As a teenager, Ted Baumgart of Chili loved motocross and he was good at it. He took several spills over the years, breaking bones and was …
Dementia cases to double by 2050. Here's why - USA Today
New research projects dementia cases will more than double worldwide by 2050, with women and people in low- and middle-income countries facing higher rates.
Pennsylvania doctors are seeing what measles can do to previously healthy, unvaccinated kids - NBC News
The virus is proving it can attack multiple organs, including the gut, liver, lungs and brain, even in children who were previously healthy.
Your flu shot can’t wait - Vox
Some parts of the country are already seeing case levels typical of late fall or early winter.
‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour - Nature
A coral fragment can form a tissue bridge with a dying counterpart — and provide it with crucial microalgae.