Tag: safely

11 OCT

Pregnant women, OAPs & babies can now safely eat runny eggs 30 years after salmonella fear

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said its revised advice that those vulnerable to infection could now safely eat raw or lightly cooked eggs produced under the British Lion Code of Practice followed a thorough review of new scientific evidence.  It had previously advised that vulnerable groups should not eat runny eggs because they could contain […]

05 SEP

America’s longest-orbiting female astronaut has safely returned home

After spending 665 days whizzing 254 miles above the surface of Earth aboard the International Space Station, Astronaut Peggy Whitson has successfully reentered the atmosphere and set down safely in Kazakhstan. That’s the longest time spent on the ISS for any woman astronaut in history — or any American astronaut for that matter. After the […]

16 AUG

‘Micromotors’ alter your gut’s chemistry to safely deliver medicine

There’s a reason diabetics can’t take their insulin orally (for the time being): stomach acid is super effective at dissolving it and similar large proteins, like antibiotics. But rather than force patients to pound pints of Maalox or chew a tub of Tums before taking their medicine, a team of researchers at UC San Diego […]

11 AUG

How to safely watch the solar eclipse — even if you’re not in the line of totality

Matt Hecht Most days we barely give the giant, searing-hot ball of plasma in the sky a second thought. That will change dramatically on Monday, August 21: when the total solar eclipse sweeps across the continental United States for the first time in nearly 100 years. If you’re not careful, though, the sun still will […]

07 JUL

Custom cancer vaccines safely fight and kill tumors in early human trials

Enlarge / Melanoma cells. (credit: NCI) With swift shots to the arm, doctors safely and effectively prime our immune systems to fight off deadly infectious diseases. Now, with tightly crossed fingers, they plan to do the same for cancers. In two early clinical trials involving 19 patients with skin cancer, personalized vaccines appeared safe and […]