Author: Tom Patriot

Mass drug administration reduces scabies cases by 90% in Solomon Islands’ communities

Tom Patriot

Mass drug administration (MDA) of two antibiotics can be highly effective at reducing cases of scabies and the bacterial infection impetigo, according to new research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases. The study was conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney and the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services. It saw the entire population of Choiseul Province of the Solomon Islands (26,000 people), in the Pacific, given one round of the antibiotics ivermectin and azithromycin…

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Marc Jacobs’s New York Wedding Was Attended By Fashion Royalty

Tom Patriot

Marc Jacobs tied the knot with Char Defrancesco in New York this weekend. The star-studded nuptials attracted fashion royalty like Kate and Lila Moss, Kaia Gerber, Bella and Gigi Hadid, Naomi Campbell, Chloë Sevigny, and Emily Ratajkowski. People reports that a plethora of celebs were also spotted at the wedding such as Lil’ Kim, Rita Ora, Luka Sabbat, and Frank Ocean. Here, we round-up all of the famous faces at Marc Jacobs’s wedding: Char Defrancesco and Marc Jacobs. The newlyweds posed outside their wedding reception venue. Naomi Campbell. The supermodel arrived wearing a bejeweled cape by Balmain. Justin Theroux.…

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Sophie Turner Says Kit Harington Is Paid More Than She Is on Game of Thrones

Tom Patriot

Sophie Turner revealed that her Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington gets paid more than she does because his character, Jon Snow, has a bigger plot and involved more night shoots, she told Harper’s BAZAAR UK in her new cover story. The British actress, who supports Time’s Up and gender equality in the entertainment industry, opened up about how it’s “a little tricky” to demand equal pay on the hit HBO show. “Kit [Harington, who plays her brother Jon Snow, the King in the North] got more money than me, but he had a bigger storyline,”…

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Quick thinking? It’s all down to timing

Tom Patriot

Remember hearing people being called slow learners by teachers and parents? That oft-used description of someone who takes a wee bit longer to process information, now has a scientific basis for its existence. Scientists from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine have found that the rapidity with which a person is able to grasp, process, understand, store and use information comes down to the speed and timing with which the neurons in the brain fire off. The closer the gap between the firing of one neuron and the…

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Eating later in the day may be associated with obesity

Tom Patriot

Eating later in the day may contribute to weight gain, according to a new study to be presented Saturday at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans, La. Previous studies have suggested that later timing of eating and sleeping are related to obesity, said lead author Adnin Zaman, M.D., of the University of Colorado in Denver, Colo. “However, few studies have assessed both meal and sleep timing in adults with obesity, and it is not clear whether eating later in the day is associated with shorter sleep…

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