Month: March 2022

Training with weights, resistance bands, or body weight can help build strength and muscle.  It may also reduce your risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, new research suggests. Between 30-60 minutes per week can help, and adding aerobic exercise has even more benefits.  Loading Something is loading. Working out to sculpt stronger muscles isn't just for show — it could help you li...

Humboldt County Public Health reported today a new hospitalization of a resident aged 80 or older due to COVID-19. An additional 104 new positive cases of COVID-19 were also reported since Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the county to 19,596. No new deaths were reported and today marks the lowest number of new positive cases reported on a Monday since Dec. 20, at the beginning of the surge of the Omicron variant. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that the statewide indoor mask mandate for unvaccinated individuals ends after 11:59 p.m. Feb. 28, but health officials will continue to strongly recommend masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. California is set to end its universal masking requirements in K-12 and childcare settings at 11:59 p.m. on...

News Release Monday, February 28, 2022 Scientists from two independent research teams have discovered how the mislocalization of a protein, known as TDP-43, alters the genetic instructions for UNC13A, providing a possible therapeutic target that could also have implications in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and other forms of dementia. ALS and FTD are two neurodegenerative disorders in which many cases are linked by mislocalization of TDP-43, where instead of being primarily located in the nucleus of the cell where genes are activated, it forms aggregates outside the nucleus in multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Rare mutations in the TDP-43 gene are known to cause ALS, but almost all cases of ALS show mislocalization of ...