Nurse arrested over US care home patient pregnancy
From BBC Police in Arizona say they have arrested a nurse after a patient at a care facility gave birth. The suspect has been named as Nathan Sutherland, 36, who worked at the Hacienda Healthcare clinic. He is being charged…
The downside of home genetic testing
By Jordyn Cornier From Care2 Home genetic test kits like 23&Me are pretty incredible. With one little vial of saliva, you can find out your genetic predisposition for diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, obesity and more—which potentially allows you to make…
Just how clean is that stethoscope?
From Newsmax For doctors and nurses in hospitals, hand-washing between patients is a must. But what about their stethoscopes? A new hospital study finds that stethoscopes are laden with a wide range of bacteria. Some, such as Staphylococcus aureus, can…
Mate for life
11 animals that mate for life By: Bryan Nelson From mnn Old faithful Humans like to think of themselves as a faithful species, but when it comes to true fidelity, many other animals offer better examples of how to keep…
More bad news about vaping
By Dr. Oz and Michael Roizen, M.D. From Newsmax Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And then after wildfires often come the rains and all-too-lethal mudslides. Well, the same is true for vaping. It turns out that mudslides of information are…
Early results boost hopes for historic gene editing attempt
From Newsmax Early, partial results from a historic gene editing study give encouraging signs that the treatment may be safe and having at least some of its hoped-for effect, but it’s too soon to know whether it ultimately will succeed….
Fish fraud: Seafood often mislabelled in stores, restaurants
By Canadian Press From canoe.com When consumers buy butterfish or white tuna at a grocery store they may instead receive a fish dubbed “the laxative of the sea,” according to an investigation into seafood fraud that found nearly half of…
Inflammation linked to cancer, but lifestyle changes may help
From central treatment Centers of America Experts have long suspected inflammation may play some role in cancer’s development. In 1863, German scientist and physician Rudolf Virchow was the first to make the connection, observing that cancer often develops at sites…
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A resurrected gene may protect elephants from cancer
BY AIMEE CUNNINGHAM From Science News LIF6 instructs damaged cells to self-destruct before the disease has a chance to take hold Elephants rarely succumb to cancer. That’s surprising given how large the animals grow and how long they can live,…
8 body parts that might seem useless but actually have interesting functions
By Michelle Starr,Science Alert From Business Insider There’s very little in our anatomy that has — or had — no purpose whatsoever. While there are a few things that might seem useless now, they exist because our ancestors once needed…
