A boomer moved back to Virginia after living in Florida for a decade. She said she would'never own another home' in the Sunshine State and loves the slower …
Blacksburg, Virginia near Virginia Tech. Brett Maurer Nancy, a 68-year-old retiree, moved back to Virginia from Florida due to escalating costs and the heat. Despite Florida's population growth, many like Nancy are migrating to other states for cheaper living. Nancy's move to Virginia resulted in…#blacksburg #virginia #virginiatech #brettmaurernancy #florida #nancy #capecoral #sunshinestate #censusbureau #censusbureaus (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ultrasound waves ease pain by influencing brain areas
Focused ultrasound could help ease pain by manipulating the area of the brain that registers pain, a proof-of-principle study published February 1 in Pain found.
Researchers led by Wynn Legon, PhD, from Virginia Tech University found that low-intensity focused ultrasound can nonsurgically modulate the anterior insula and posterior insula in humans, with participants reporting lower pain levels after undergoing procedures.
“Taken together, low-intensity focused ultrasound is an effective noninvasive method to individually target subregions of the insula in humans for site-specific effects on brain biomarkers of pain pro...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Source Type: news
How to Use and Take Care of Your Humidifier
For those of us whose skin in the winter gets as scaly as a lizard’s, home humidifiers might sound essential. But humidifiers are more complicated to use and care for than some other household appliances—and doing so incorrectly can be worse for your health than not having one at all.
Here’s what to know before diving in.
The benefits of humid air
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Humidifiers do their best work on the parts of the body you use to breathe. When the air gets colder, the humidity in the environment goes down. Each breath of dry air sucks moisture from your airways...
Source: TIME: Health - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Chicago Bears middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds buys Northbrook home for $1.4M
Chicago Bears middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds paid $1.41 million in June for a five-bedroom, 6,101-square-foot home in Northbrook. A Virginia native and standout on the gridiron at Virginia Tech for three years, Edmunds, 25, signed a four-year, $72 million contract with the Bears in March.…#tremaineedmunds #northbrook #virginia #virginiatech #built #italian #paulgorney (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bed Bugs Aren ’t Just a Problem In Paris. Here’s Why
The news reports are alarming to say the least. Paris, the city known for its style, cuisine, and amour, has a bed bug problem. Video of the insects crawling over Metro seats, in hotels, and swarming buses and movie theaters swept the internet, and bed bug anxiety reached a new high.
But what’s behind the Parisian invasion? How did bed bugs launch such a widespread infestation of the city? With Paris hosting the first Olympics in the post-COVID-19 era next summer, those questions aren’t just matters for idle conversation.
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The reality is that the infestation di...
Source: TIME: Health - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Virginia Tech receives record-tying $50M donation from Richmond's Red Gates Foundation
The gift comes from the estate of Richmond businessman Hunter Goodwin. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 12, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Drew Hansen Source Type: news
Landmark $50 million gift to dramatically expand health sciences research at Virginia Tech
The Richmond-based Red Gates Foundation has committed $50 million to the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC to accelerate health sciences research at Virginia Tech. The gift is among the largest ever made to the university. “The Red Gates Foundation is committed to funding innovative…#richmond #redgatesfoundation #vtc #virginiatech #jeffgalanti #huntergoodwin #virginiatechs #timsands #michaelfriedlander #friedlander (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Virginia Tech receives record-tying $50M donation from Richmond's Red Gates Foundation
The gift comes from the estate of Richmond businessman Hunter Goodwin. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 12, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Drew Hansen Source Type: news
US scientists turn old plastic into soap after fireside inspiration
Team converts polyethylene into fatty acids, soap ’s main ingredient, but say it is not panacea for plastic pollutionScientists have discovered a method to give new life to old plastic – by converting it into soap.Plastics are chemically similar to fatty acids, which are one of the main ingredients in soap. For Guoliang Liu, an associate professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech and author of the paper published in the journal Science, this similarity suggested it should be possible to convert polyethylene into fatty acids, and then into soap. The problem was size: molecularly, plastics are very large, about 3,000 carbon...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Annalise Murray Tags: Plastics Science Environment Source Type: news
34-year-old Kickstarter CEO credits his success to 2 traits: They're an'essential skill set '
If you ask Everette Taylor how he became CEO of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, he'll tell you: "I got lucky." The 34-year-old spent a chunk of his teen and young adult years battling homelessness and hustling to make ends meet, he says. He dropped out of Virginia Tech and founded an event…#everettetaylor #virginiatech #kickstarter #bostonuniversity #constancehadley #path #virginia #danielgoleman #warrenbuffettguide (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers Are Working on At-Home Tests for Lyme Disease
If there has been one silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been the rise of rapid self-tests, which provide results at home in minutes. Researchers are hard at work at developing similar tests for other diseases—including Lyme.
Lyme disease is transmitted by the black-legged (or deer) tick and infects about 476,000 Americans each year. The faster those people can get treated with the antibiotics doxycycline or amoxicillin, the better their chances of having a short, mild case of the disease.
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But despite the clear need, there’s a problem when it comes t...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Research Source Type: news
The Least Toxic Ways to Protect Yourself from Ticks
When it comes to keeping away creatures that creep and crawl, the U.S. doesn’t mess around. More than 198 million Americans used insect repellent last year, a figure that is expected to top 200 million this year. Much of that is to ward off ticks, which are technically arachnids and carry more than a dozen diseases.
But the repellents themselves can present concerns of their own with their pungent smells, occasional irritation, and labels full of mystifying chemicals most people have never heard of.
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With 2023 turning into one of the worst tick seasons in recent memory, pl...
Source: TIME: Health - June 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news
Virginia Tech ’s Bias Response Team and the First Amendment
The advertising catchphrase “see something, say something” calls to mind suspicious packages that might be bombs. At Virginia Tech, that slogan applies to the school’s official Bias Intervention and Response Team, or BIRT. Hokies are encouraged to report one another’s ill-considered opinions or…#virginiatech #biasintervention #responseteam #jharviewilkinsoniii #supremecourt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How disinfecting an old mineshaft saved a colony of little brown bats
Using chemicals in the environment can save wildlife from deadly pathogens, but process is not without risks, say expertsJoseph Hoyt and his team first showed up to the abandoned mineshaft in Wisconsin during the late summer of 2017, personal protective equipment in hand. Long before Covid-19, the supplies were to protect them from the chlorine dioxide gas they had brought along. Their aim was to use the disinfectant gas to kill thePseudogymnoascus destructans fungus lining the walls of the mineshaft, which hadalready killed millions of bats across North America.“You’re talking about essentially an entire taxonomic gro...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jack McGovan Tags: Endangered species Animals Fungi Environment Conservation Wildlife Biology Science Zoology World news Mammals Amphibians Spain US news Globalisation Wisconsin Source Type: news
Grilling Plant-Based Burgers This Memorial Day? Safe Cooking Temperatures May Change
SUNDAY, May 28, 2023 -- The last thing you want to invite to your Memorial Day cookout is foodborne illness.
An expert from Virginia Tech offers some suggestions for keeping it at bay, even when cooking something you may have less experience with,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
