There has never been a more dangerous time than the COVID-19 pandemic for people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer, respiratory problems or cardiovascular conditions, new UNSW Sydney research has found. Among the adverse impacts of the pandemic for people with NCDs, the study found they are more vulnerable to catching and dying… Read More: COVID-19 a double blow for chronic disease patients »
The distribution and function of the body’s adipose tissue change throughout the course of life. A special kind of adipocytes known as brown fat cells are capable of using fatty deposit energy reserves by a process of generating heat called thermogenesis. As we get older, brown fat cells change into white fat cells. Thermogenisis stops… Read More: Brown Fat Can Help Reduce Age-Related Weight Gain »
A former Sydney doctor’s jail term for harassing the partner of an ex-Tinder flame has been overturned as a judge took aim at “tone deaf” comments from the magistrate who sentenced her and the “invasive” media storm surrounding the case. Radiologist Denise Jane Lee was in March handed a nine-month prison sentence for a relentless… Read More: Tinder doctor ‘unfairly vilified’: court »
Moncef Slaoui, co-leader of the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed effort, is so confident that Moderna’s and Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines to prevent COVID-19 will succeed in phase 3 trials that he thinks every American could be immunized by June. But there’s one caveat weighing down that prediction: politics. Slaoui is growing increasingly frustrated with the… Read More: Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could reach all Americans by June—if… »