1. Make tonight your first Sleep Date Night
We’re rubbish sleepers. Rubbish. On average, adults sleep six and a half hours a night easily below the seven to eight hours we need to function at our best. You’ve heard the reasons before (busy lives, bedroom phone use, yadda yadda, yawn yawn), but have you ever thought of having a Sleep Date Night to help you redress the balance?
That’s an idea suggested by Dr Guy Meadows, the co-founder of The Sleep School, who says it is a better approach than the common technique of trying to catch up on lost sleep with weekend lie-ins. “Most of us deprive ourselves of sleep during the week and catch up at the weekend. But a big lie-in makes us feel worse; it gives us jet lag. If you usually get up at 7am and lie in on Saturday until midday, you’re now on New York time.”
Written by George Citroner on January 5, 2021 Fact checked by Jennifer Chesak
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A new study finds people with 1 of 4 genetic conditions have an increased chance of autism, but may not receive the evaluation, care, and services they need early enough in life.
According to the National Institute of Environmental Health ScienceS (NIEHS), scientists are still trying to understand why some people develop Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and others don’t.
Risk factors include parental age at time of conception and prenatal exposure to air pollution, experts say.
Over half of people born with 1 of 4 genetic conditions experience symptoms of autism, despite not qualifying for a formal diagnosis, according to new research conducted at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom.
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IMAGE: NIH scientists showed that anti-COVID-19 nanobodies from a llama may be an effective tool in the battle against the COVID-19 virus. view more
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National Institutes of Health researchers have isolated a set of promising, tiny antibodies, or nanobodies, against SARS-CoV-2 that were produced by a llama named Cormac. Preliminary results published in
Scientific Reports suggest that at least one of these nanobodies, called NIH-CoVnb-112, could prevent infections and detect virus particles by grabbing hold of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins. In addition, the nanobody appeared to work equally well in either liquid or aerosol form, suggesting it could remain effective after inhalation. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19.
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A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers poses a hypothetical question: What if air quality improvements in New York City during the spring 2020 COVID-19 shutdown were sustained for five years without the economic and health costs of the pandemic? They estimate cumulative benefits of clean air during this period would amount to thousands of avoided cases of illness and death in children and adults, as well as associated economic benefits between $32 to $77 billion. The study s findings are published in the journal
Environmental Research.
The researchers leveraged the unintended natural experiment of cleaner air in New York City during the COVID-19 shutdown to simulate the potential future health and economic benefits from sustained air quality improvements of a similar magnitude. They do not frame this study as an estimate of the benefits of the pandemic. Rather they offer this hypothetical clean air scenario as an aspirational goa