According to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, fewer women are relying on stable, high-earning male partners to have children.
Researchers from the University of Maryland discovered this trend when they examined the fracking boom, a “positive economic shock” which they said caused wage spikes for non-college educated men. In the past, these kinds of income increases have been associated with accompanying spikes in heterosexual marriage rates, as with the coal booms of the 1970s and ’80s.
Most of us go to work and count the minutes until we can dash out of the office.
In fact, a Gallup poll found that a mere 13 percent of us actually enjoy the time we spend on the job. And there’s a real cost to that, not just to our emotional state, but also to our health, experts say.
But we can turn all that around just by adopting some simple practices to make our work lives happier and, as an added bonus, our bodies healthier, experts say.
“There’s now overwhelming evidence to indicate that happier people are actually healthier,” Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a “positive psychologist,” professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, told TODAY. “I would say that anyone can learn to be happier at work.”
It looks like a chunk of concrete, can kill with one dose, and it’s got an ominous name — Gray Death.
And it’s the latest killer drug cocktail making headlines in the ongoing war against the national opioid crisis.
So far, it’s been limited to the Gulf Coast and states like Georgia and Ohio and “we are monitoring the potential spread of this deadly combination of drugs,” Russ Baer of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency told NBC News.
“We’ve not yet seen a national proliferation of the ‘gray death’ substance,” the DEA spokesman wrote.
But even as law enforcement is focusing on Gray Death, drug dealers are hard at work on even more lethal drug cocktails made from opioids that are smuggled into the country from Mexico or shipped in by mail from China.
. A forensic chemist prepares a sample of the drug “gray death” to be weighed at the crime lab of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations in Decatur, Ga., on May 4, 2017. Mike Stewart / AP
We all know how important posture is for our health (not to mention how much better you look when you stand up nice and straight). Yet we all slouch from time to time. You may not think it’s a big deal, but the truth is that when you slouch, your body reacts in some really scary ways.
Forget how it looks. Your poor posture could be having a seriously negative impact on your health in ways you’ve never even imagined. Luckily, there are simple and fast solutions to this pervasive problem. Just be mindful of your posture and resist the urge to slouch every chance you get. Your body will be a lot happier for it.
Putting the care puzzle together for aging parents requires a mix of legal, financial, and governmental resources. And it’s a problem many people haven’t planned for.
In order to be able to take care of your parents from a legal perspective there are certain pieces of paper you need to have in place — and nearly half of the adult population doesn’t.
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African American woman helping father use walker. Terry Vine / Blend Images via Getty Images
A compound found in the protective slime of an Indian frog blows apart flu viruses and might become a powerful new drug to treat influenza, researchers reported Tuesday.
The compound, a small structure called a peptide, cured mice of killer doses of human flu, the research team reported in the journal Immunity.
They hope to develop it and other compounds like it into antiviral drugs to treat people.
“This peptide kills the viruses. It kind of blows them up,” Joshy Jacob of Emory University, who led the study team, told NBC News.
And it seems harmless to healthy tissue. “There’s no collateral damage,” he said.
The team found the peptide in mucus taken from the skin of a frog species called Hydrophylax bahuvistara, found only recently in India.
. The South Indian frog Hydrophylax bahuvistara makes a compound that kills flu viruses Sanil George + Jessica Shartouny / Immunity
A young woman who was born without a vagina was given life-altering surgery to allow her to have sex, and now hopes to start a family.
Devan Merck, 23, from Fort Benning in Georgia, was devastated to learn she had no vaginal canal, a malformed uterus and no cervix when she was just 12-years-old, and was bullied for years by classmates who called her a ‘boy’ and a ‘freak’.
But she is now able to enjoy intercourse after surgeons created a man-made vagina using skin taken from her bottom, and now Devan and her husband Trent hope to have a baby with the help of IVF.
The 23-year-old, who was diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, told how boyfriends would vanish when they learned of her condition.
‘For years I was bullied and felt different. Kids would call me a ‘boy’ and a ‘freak’ and boyfriends would disappear when they realised I wouldn’t have sex.’
When she was 16, surgeons cut open a thick layer of skin covering Devan’s vagina to create a vaginal opening, allowing her to have sex.
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Devan Merck with her friend Megan Seaman at home in Fort Benning, Georgia. Megan also has the same condition
People who drink diet sodas daily have three times the risk of stroke and dementia compared to people who drink one less than once a week, researchers reported Thursday.
It’s yet another piece of evidence that diet drinks are not a healthy alternative to sugary drinks, and suggests that people need to limit both, doctors said.
While the findings do not prove that diet drinks damage brains, they support other studies that show people who drink them frequently tend to have poorer health.
The researchers, led by Matthew Pase of the Boston University School of Medicine and colleagues, studied more than 4,000 people for their report, published in the journal Stroke.
“We found that those people who were consuming diet soda on a daily basis were three times as likely to develop both stroke and dementia within the next 10 years as compared to those who did not consume diet soda,” Pase told NBC News.
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Diet Sodas Raise Risk of Dementia and Stroke, Study Finds
The bruised and bloodied passenger who was forcibly removed this week from an United Airlines flight lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and “significant concussion” in the ordeal, his lawyers said Thursday.
Dr. David Dao, who fled war-torn Saigon before immigrating to America in 1975, was released from the hospital Wednesday, but will need reconstructive surgery and remains “shaken” by the experience, attorney Thomas Demetrio told reporters in Chicago.
“He said that being dragged down the aisle was more horrifying and harrowing than what he experienced in leaving Vietnam,” Demetrio said.
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Passenger David Dao is dragged out of a United Airlines plane at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Monday, April 10, 2017. Tyler Bridges / Twitter
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have made significant progress in the search for new treatments for Parkinson’s disease. By manipulating the gene expression of non-neuronal cells in the brain, they were able to produce new dopamine neurons. The study, performed on mice and human cells, is published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Biotechnology.
By reprogramming cells in the brain the scientists were able to revert motor symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease and reproduce the cellular function and responses in human brain cells in the laboratory. The key to this discovery lies in the conversion of brain cells into a subset of nerve cells called dopamine neurons.
Dopamine neurons degenerate and die in the brains of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The research team showed that they can convert non-neuronal so called glial cells in the brains of mice into new dopamine neurons, in essence, creating new neurons.
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Dopamine neurons degenerate and die in the brains of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Credit: iStock
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Dopamine neurons degenerate and die in the brains of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Credit: iStock
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