5+ day, 25+ min ago   (823+ words) Pamela Anderson told an audience in Venice on Sunday that when she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late 1990s, her doctor said she probably had about ten years to live. There was no cure at the time. She described…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (818+ words) Swimming in a lake or river for ten minutes was associated with more than twice the risk of a skin rash or itching compared with standing on the shore, according to a randomized trial of 2,368 people published in the International…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (894+ words) Two people can lose the same amount of weight and end up with meaningfully different livers. That is the finding from a controlled feeding trial in which adults with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease were assigned to one of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (666+ words) For decades, RNA molecules stitched together from two different genes were treated as evidence that something had gone wrong. Cancer is a disease of copying errors, and these hybrid transcripts looked like copying errors, so the field largely filed them…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (950+ words) About 50 seconds before a sleeping mouse slips into REM sleep, its brain starts filling with blood. The surge begins at the back of the cortex and rolls forward over roughly 15 seconds. By the time the electrical signature of dream sleep…...