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Pregnancy Stretch Marks Cause Stress and Emotional Burden

While stretch marks are commonly associated with pregnancy, the permanency of the skin lesions causes pregnant women and pregnant individuals substantial embarrassment that can negatively impact pregnancy and their quality of life, according to a new study. Researchers at Michigan Medicine surveyed more than 100 pregnant patients with stretch marks who were considering delivery at...

Three Ways to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Food Purchased by U.S. Households
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Three Ways to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Food Purchased by U.S. Households

Most consumers want to make food purchases that are smart for their wallets, their health and the environment. And while switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet can lower one’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions, it may not be realistic or healthful for everyone. Now, researchers in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology report three ways that Americans...

Can Eating Alone Be Bad for Your Heart?
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Can Eating Alone Be Bad for Your Heart?

As women age, their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) exceeds men’s largely because of decreased levels of estrogen that regulate vascular function. As a result, much research is focused on various risk factors. A new study suggests that eating alone may contribute to an increased risk of heart disease in older women. Study results are...

Stimulus Designed to Help Restaurant Workers Led to More Covid Cases
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Stimulus Designed to Help Restaurant Workers Led to More Covid Cases

A new paper in The Economic Journal indicates that a large-scale government subsidy aimed at encouraging people to eat out in restaurants in the wake of the first 2020 COVID-19 wave in the United Kingdom accelerated a second COVID19 wave. The COVID19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus hurt economies around the world. The hospitality sector was...

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Africa Tries to End Vaccine Inequity by Replicating Its Own

In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people. The energy in the gleaming labs matches the urgency of their...

Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children
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Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children

Like most other kids with covid, Dante and Michael DeMaino seemed to have no serious symptoms. Infected in mid-February, both lost their senses of taste and smell. Dante, 9, had a low-grade fever for a day or so. Michael, 13, had a “tickle in his throat,” said their mother, Michele DeMaino, of Danvers, Massachusetts. At...

Women Left Behind: Gender Gap Emerges in Africa’s Vaccines
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Women Left Behind: Gender Gap Emerges in Africa’s Vaccines

The health outreach workers who drove past Lama Mballow’s village with a megaphone handed out T-shirts emblazoned with the words: “I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE!” By then, the women in Sare Gibel already had heard the rumors on social media: The vaccines could make your blood stop or cause you to miscarry. Women who took...

Donation Experiment: Covid-19 Only Slightly Displaces Other Concerns
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Donation Experiment: Covid-19 Only Slightly Displaces Other Concerns

The Covid-19 pandemic and its solution has only partially displaced other social and political concerns – and not persistently, despite the pandemic’s high and constant media presence. This is shown by an international team of researchers led by the economist Esther Blanco from the University of Innsbruck. The results were recently published in the journal...

Sharp Flu Rebound Expected After Lifting of Covid Distancing Measures
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Sharp Flu Rebound Expected After Lifting of Covid Distancing Measures

New research warns that the United States could experience a severe influenza outbreak after public health measures like face masks and social distancing are lifted. These measures have protected people from COVID-19 and influenza—incidence of influenza declined 60 percent during the first ten weeks following the implementation of the measures—but is also leading to greater...

The Hidden U.S. Covid-19 Pandemic: Orphaned Children – More Than 140,000 Us Children Lost a Primary or Secondary Caregiver Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
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The Hidden U.S. Covid-19 Pandemic: Orphaned Children – More Than 140,000 U.S. Children Lost a Primary or Secondary Caregiver Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic

One U.S. child loses a parent or caregiver for every four COVID-19 deaths, a new modeling study published today in Pediatrics reveals.  The findings illustrate orphanhood as a hidden and ongoing secondary tragedy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasizes that identifying and caring for these children throughout their development is a necessary and urgent part of...