Columnist Scott LaFee covers the educational and quirky health news of the week.
A new study suggests that natural compounds found in dark sweet cherries may help slow the growth and spread on one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. Scientists at Texas A&M said natural plant pigments called anthocyanins, which give cherries their deep red color, appeared to slow tumor growth, metastasis and therapy resistance in test mice with triple-negative breast cancer fed a cherry extract.
If the findings are successfully applied to humans, they don’t portend a cherry-based cure, but rather an additional anti-cancer tool, underscoring the reality that no single treatment approach is successful by itself.An adult human contains 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood, accounting for 8% to 10% of body weight. A baby, on the other hand, carries only about a cup, or the same as the average adult cat.The rate of syphilis among pregnant people, which soared between 2016 and 2022, continues to climb. A report from the National Center for Health Statistics says the maternal syphilis rate increased 28% from 2022 to 2024, following a 222% increase between 2016 and 2022. By the end of 2024, nearly 360 out of every 100,000 births were infected with the sexually transmitted infection. Increases were seen across most ethnic groups and all age groups. Experts attribute the rise — the highest since the 1950s — to decreased condom use, reduced public health funding for sexually transmitted infections prevention, pandemic-related disruptions in care, increased substance abuse and inadequate prenatal screening.Auto-brewery syndrome occurs when persons experience the effects of intoxication, including hangovers, without consuming a significant amount of alcohol, or any alcohol at all. It is caused by a type of fungi or bacteria breaking down fermenting carbohydrates in the gut to produce ethanol.This week in 1842, physician Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Ga., was the first to use ether as an anesthetic during a minor operation. He placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable, and then removed a tumor from his neck. This event predated William Thomas Morton’s public demonstration of ether by four years, but it was not disclosed until 1849 in the Southern Medical Journal. Long’s accomplishment is now widely considered to represent the discovery of surgical anesthesia.The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate achievements that make people laugh, then think. A look at real science that’s hard to take seriously, and even harder to ignore. In 2007, the Ig Nobel Prize in Biology went to a Dutch researcher who conducted a census of all of the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we potentially share our beds at night.b) 60-80 beats, though well-trained athletes may have rates closer to 40-60 BPM. Rates consistently above 100 BPM or below 60 may signal a health condition.— German philosopher Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel to his favorite student. Hegel was often frustrated by those unable to grasp his wide range of ruminations, from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology to political philosophy to the philosophy of art and religion. ‘Character of our community is diminished.’ Borrego Springs group asks for short-term rental regulations‘We don’t have enough food’: Providers brace for thousands of San Diegans to lose SNAP benefits Its schools are falling apart, and voters won’t pass a bond. Could a little-used tactic help this district?A little-known Navy-Marine battle group from San Diego is making a beeline for the Middle EastSantee fire that prompted evacuations at shopping center charred 5 acres
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