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Lower Doses of Peanut Immunotherapy Could Make Allergy Treatment More Accessible
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (544+ words) Learn more about peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) and how lowering the treatment dose could help children with peanut allergies. Children undergoing immunotherapy for peanut allergies may achieve the same results with a lower dose. According to new research from The…...
Childhood Games Like Super Mario Bros. Can Boost Happiness and Reduce Burnout
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (516+ words) Learn why playing classic video games, like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi, can help young adults fight burnout and chronic stress. For many young adults, downtime has become strangely exhausting. Even moments meant for rest are often filled with scrolling,…...
Mini-Nose Models Sniff Out the Reasons Why RSV Infection Turns Deadly in Infants
3+ week, 6+ day ago (441+ words) Learn what happens to cells inside the nose during an RSV infection, and why infants are so vulnerable to the virus. Most adults who get sick with RSV only end up with a mild cold for a few days, but…...
Allergic to Everything — The Mysteries of Mast Cells
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (521+ words) In early 2020, Wynde Dyer walked into the house that would transform her life. The Central California ranch sat on a cul-de-sac of gated homes and glittering aquamarine pools. It boasted private tennis and beach volleyball courts, a horse run, floor-to-ceiling…...
CRISPR Fulfills Its Promise with First-Ever Personalized Gene-Editing Therapy
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (692+ words) Baby KJ's bleak future is brighter as CRISPR breakthrough paves the way to treat rare genetic disorders. When CRISPR was first introduced as a gene-editing tool in 2012, the world was in awe of all the possibilities it held " eventually earning…...
Youth Happiness Levels Have Declined Before, During, and After COVID-19 Pandemic
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (436+ words) The young used to report high happiness levels that declined into middle age before increasing into and throughout retirement. Now those levels are changing. Mental health for U.S. children has declined before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic " a substantial break…...
New Immune Cell Discovery May Ease Food Allergy Symptoms
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (599+ words) Fresh insights into the gut's immune system point to promising allergy treatment options. For people with food allergies, even a simple dinner out can become stressful. Figuring out whether every ingredient is listed on the menu and asking the server…...
New Therapy Offers Promising Solution to Childhood Peanut Allergies
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (1001+ words) What is oral immunotherapy? Learn how this new therapy could help children treat their peanut allergies, but how there is also extreme caution to the treatment. Peanuts are known to cause one of the most severe reactions in children with…...
In Social Situations, Narcissists Tend to Feel More Left Out and Ostracized
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (278+ words) Feelings of exclusion aren't all that fun. And they aren't all that unusual, either, at least not for narcissists. According to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, narcissists are more likely to feel left out…...
Though Mostly Useless, Wiggling Ear Muscles Work Hard to Hear
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (673+ words) They wiggle, though they don't do much else. That's what we've long thought about the auricular muscles " the useless ear muscles that once helped our ancient ancestors hear. But recent research in Frontiers in Neuroscience reveals that these muscles are…...