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Most people welcomed the opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID-19, yet a non-trivial minority did not. Vaccine-resistant people tend to hold strong views and assertively reject conventional medical or public health recommendations. This is puzzling to many, and the issue has become a flashpoint in several countries.   It has resulted in strained relationships, even within families, and at a macro-level has threatened social cohesion, such as during the month-long protest on parliament grounds in Wellington, New Zealand. This raises the question: where do these strong, often visceral anti-vaccination sentiments spring from? As lifecourse researchers we know that many adult attitudes, traits and behaviors have their roots in childhood. This insight prompted us to enquire about va...

Having a sense of purpose in life can slash risk of developing dementia, study suggests Feeling a sense of purpose can lower risk of developing dementia, study shows It was linked with 19% reduced rate of clinically significant cognitive impairment  People with a higher sense of purpose also more likely to engage in exercise  By Xantha Leatham For The Daily Mail Published: 20:01 EDT, 10 April 2022 | Updated: 20:10 EDT, 10 April 2022 <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- <!-- (function (src, d, tag){ var s = d.createElement(tag), prev = d.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0]; s.src = src; prev.parentNode.insertBefore(s, prev); }("https://www.dailymail.co.uk/static/gunther/1.17.0/async_bundle- -.js", document, "script")); <!-- ...

How we feed our pets, store their food and wash their dishes can have negative health consequences if not done properly -- for both humans and animals. There have been multiple outbreaks of illnesses among humans after exposure to E. coli- and salmonella-contaminated dog food, which has been more likely in commercial and homemade raw food diets. These diets typically involve the need to prep pets' foods in the kitchen, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. But guidelines for how owners should safely handle pet food and dishes is limited, and their effectiveness is unclear, so the authors of the new study investigated dog owners' feeding habits and analyzed the impact of US Food and Drug Administration hygiene protocols on dog food dish contamination. During c...

Dan Wagner is participating in a trial of a nasal coronavirus vaccine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. (Maddie McGarvey for The Washington Post) As the virus evolves, some scientists are calling for a change in vaccine strategy As the omicron variant of the coronavirus moved lightning-fast around the world, it revealed an unsettling truth. The virus had gained a stunning ability to infect people, jumping from one person’s nose to the next. Cases soared this winter, even among vaccinated people. That is leading scientists to rethink their strategy about the best way to fight future variants, by aiming for a higher level of protection: blocking infections altogether. If they succeed, the next vaccine could be a nasal spray. The original coronavirus shots prove...

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Part of the beauty of sourdough is that you don’t have to go far to hunt down ingredients to bake it from scratch, nor do you have to be a professional pastry chef to nail it. At a minimum, you just need water, flour, starter, and a little patience—all of which helped it become the one of most popular pandemic pastimes. According to Dan Buettner, a National Geographic Fellow and one of the world's leading experts on regions in the world where people live the longest (areas he has deemed the Blue Zones), sourdough bread also has some very important longevity-boosting benefits. In fact, according to Buettner, sourdough bread is consumed at almost every meal in the Blue Zone region of Ikaria, Greece. Some goes for Sardinia, Italy: In the Barbagia of S...

It's not quite the mythical fountain of youth but it is, perhaps, a start: Scientists have managed to engineer human skin cells to reverse 30 years of aging, resetting them to a much more youthful state in terms of certain molecular measurements.   While it's very early days for the research – so we shouldn't get carried away too quickly – the technique could play a major part in efforts to produce rejuvenative medicine that's able to undo some of the damaging consequences of our bodies getting older. What makes the research particularly notable is that the skin cells were reprogrammed to be biologically younger while still keeping some of the functionality that made them skin cells in the first place.  Collagen production (in red) being restored in cells after reprogramming. (Fátima...

On an unusually cold morning in late March, Mayor Eric Adams began his day visiting a child-care center in Queens. Roughly seven miles away, police officers in Brooklyn were carrying out his order to clear homeless encampments, tossing away tents and other belongings in a garbage truck as part of a new public safety initiative. The mayor also held a jobs-related announcement with JetBlue and later attended the premiere of the Broadway show “Plaza Suite.” His day ended at Manhattan’s newest office skyscraper, at an event promoting a credit card that encourages people to pay their rent with plastic, where he was photographed partying with the model Cara Delevingne. It was Day 87 of the Adams administration, a day that reflected the new mayor’s robust agenda and his early priorities. The home...

The notion of that there is a sort of interplay between viruses first emerged in the 1960s, when vaccinations for polio, which contain weakened poliovirus, significantly cut the number of respiratory infections. The idea gained new ground in 2009: Europe seemed poised for a surge in swine flu cases late that summer, but when schools reopened, rhinovirus colds seemed somehow to interrupt the flu epidemic. “That prompted a lot of people at that time to speculate about this idea of viral interference,” Dr. Foxman said. Even in a typical year, the rhinovirus peaks in October or November and then again in March, on either end of the influenza season. Last year, one team of researchers set out to study the role of an existing immune response in fending off the flu virus. Because it would be une...