A dramatic change in the purpose of sleep occurs when children are about 2 1/2 years old -- a time when sleep's primary purpose changes from brain-building to brain maintenance and repair, according to a study released Friday by researchers at UCLA. “Don't wake babies up during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Important work is…
PROVO — After countless hours buried in research not necessarily related to their specialty, a group of researchers from Brigham Young University feel like they have made sense for the wearing masks or cloth face coverings to halt the spread of COVID-19.Ben Abbott, an assistant professor of environmental science at BYU, was one of four…
A recent study looks at the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and stress cardiomyopathy, a condition people often call broken heart syndrome. Not expectedly, the researchers identified an uptick in the number of cases.Scientists are slowly unraveling the full impact of COVID-19 on physical health. However, the impact of the pandemic on mental health is…
“Yet another terrible disease is about to yield to patience, persistence and outright genius,” Heckler said.Those decades of research into HIV have taught scientists an enormous amount about the immune system, honed vaccine technologies now being repurposed against the coronavirus and created a worldwide infrastructure of clinical trial networks that can be pivoted from HIV…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - New national research shows that asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic COVID-19 cases are a primary driver of the virus spreading."The best thing to do is just assume everybody's got COVID-19," ER Physician Dr. Ryan Stanton said.It's a disease that affects people in so many different ways, from no symptoms at all to the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…