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Watch the Sky for Tonight's 'Supermoon'
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Remember to stop and look at the sky tonight to witness one of the biggest and fullest moons of the year -- known as a "supermoon."
A supermoon occurs when a full moon or new moon is closest to Earth and comes within 224,834 miles of us, which will happen six times this year, according to earthsky.org.
Tonight's supermoon will be during a full moon.
But if you miss tonight's supermoon, don't worry. The next one is just one month away, on Sept. 28.
Blood Test Could Predict Risk For Breast Cancer Relapse Months In Advance
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A blood test that detects tumor DNA in patients with early-stage breast cancer may predict a woman’s risk of relapse months before conventional methods. The results are published in Science Translational Medicine.
Breast cancer is a formidable foe for researchers, doctors and patients alike. To date, it is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women. For those fortunate enough to go into remission, the risk of relapse looms as a dangerous possibility. The earlier treatment can begin, the higher the rate of success a patient has. Now, a blood test may help increase those odds.
“We have shown how a simple blood test has the potential to accurately predict which patients will relapse from breast cancer, much earlier than we can currently,” said lead author Dr Nicholas Turner from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, in astatement.
For the study, researchers took tumor and blood samples from 55 early-stage breast cancer patients who had undergone both chemotherapy and surgery. The tests were personalized to the mutations found in the patient’s tumor. This way, the researchers could implement a technique called “mutation tracking” to uncover DNA shed by a woman's tumor into her bloodstream.
Blood tests were repeated every six months for two years. Over the course of those years,15 women relapsed. Of those, the blood test predicted the return in 12 of them. The sensitivity of its detection is nothing to scoff at: The test signaled the cancer’s return eight months before it was visible on conventional imaging.
The findings may one day lead to therapy tailored to individual patients, according to thestudy. However, that day is not yet near, as researchers still need to perform many more tests and trials. For one, the size of this latest trial was small. Second, the study took blood samples for only two years – the researchers therefore don’t know the predictive value of the test after that period of time has passed.
Still, as Paul Workman, chief executive of ICR, said: ”Studies like this also give us a better understanding of how cancer changes to evade treatments – knowledge we can use when we are designing the new cancer drugs of the future.
Study Suggests The First-Born Child Is More Likely To Be Overweight
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What can you birth order say about your weight? According to a new study, first-born women are more likely to be overweight or obese than their younger sisters.
There’s a lot of research on the relationship between birth order, personality and health. It’s been linked with intelligence, political ideology and cardiovascular disease. For obvious reasons, many don’t hold up to further scrutiny and it’s probably best to take these findings with a pinch of salt. But what’s particularly interesting about this recent study is that it’s the largest of its kind and builds on previous research that reported similar findings.
The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, collected a range of data from the Swedish Birth Register, which included the weight and height of nearly 13,500 pairs of sisters. Researchers note that all large studies examining the effects of birth order on someone’s BMI – or body mass index – have previously been carried out on men, which prompted them to investigate whether there were similar patterns among women.
Researchers studied sibling pairs born between 1991 and 2009 to women who were at least 18 years old at the time of their first pregnancy. Twins were not included in the study.
They found that at birth first-born women weighed less than their siblings, but were more likely to be overweight or obese when they grew up. First-born women were 29% more likely to be overweight and 40% more likely to be obese, when compared with their second-born sisters. Also, the average BMI for first-borns was 2.4% greater than their second-born sisters.
“Our study corroborates other large studies on men, as we showed that firstborn women have greater BMI and are more likely to be overweight or obese than their second born sisters,” researchers note in the study.
“The steady reduction in family size may be a contributing factor to the observed increase in adult BMI worldwide, not only among men, but also among women,” they add.
It’s unclear why first-born women were more likely to be overweight. A co-author on the paper, Professor Wayne Cutfield from the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, speculates that this pattern could be partly down to a change in the amount of blood the placenta receives between first and later pregnancies. He told CBS News that blood vessels may be narrower in the first pregnancy, which could in turn reduce the nutrient supply; changing how fat and glucose is regulated in the body. First-born women could therefore at risk of storing more fat and have less effective insulin.
Researchers were, however, quick to point out this is an observational study and therefore no definitive conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect. They also warn that although the research suggests birth order could be a risk factor for obesity, it’s clearly one of many and is probably only a small contributor.
Ridley Scott confirms his next movie is Prometheus 2
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Ridley Scott just can't leave space alone. In a recent interview with Empire, the The Martian director stated plainly that his next project is the sequel to 2012's Prometheus. "I was starting to look for locations for my next movie," he told the magazine, "which wasPrometheus 2."
For those who don't remember, Prometheus served as a kind of pseudo-prequel to theAlien franchise. Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, the film delved into the origins of intelligent life on Earth as well as how the iconic Xenomorphs can into being. While the movie itself was a bit of a mess, it was still a financial success, paving the way to a new franchise running parallel to the Alien mythos. That's great news for fans who've wanted Scott to return to that universe for years. However, it also means people clamoring for the Neill Blomkamp-directed Alien 5 will have to wait a while longer.
How Grey's Anatomy is bringing sexy back for season 12
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Last season of Grey’s Anatomy featured the death of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital’s resident hot doc, McDreamy a.k.a. Dr. Derek Shepherd. While fans are still recovering from the loss, the TGIT staple is looking to its upcoming season to bring a “brand new” feel to the long-running drama, according to star Jason George.
“They’ve hit reboot almost. There’s a lot of things that make it feel brand new,” George – who plays Dr. Ben Warren – told People. “But it has that lightness and sense of humor that people fell in love with in the first place. And the sexy is back on. There are a lot of people who are not in couples now and are falling into bed. Everyone’s getting a little bit of loving.”
Without Dempsey on set, the show is certainly “different,” but according to George, change is necessary – even if it takes the characters in a much sadder direction.
“People think they want everything to stay the same and everyone to be happy,” George said, “but happy people make for boring television, ultimately.”
To read more of George’s interview, head on over to People. Grey’s Anatomy returns Thursday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
The Walking Dead to show airline zombie attack in stand-alone special
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What if an episode of The Walking Dead was set on a passenger airliner before civilization had fallen?
That’s basically what AMC is planning in a highly unusual — if not totally unprecedented — new special that’s set during the time period of the hit drama’s companion series, Fear the Walking Dead.
Here’s the plan: EW has exclusively learned AMC is producing a half-hour special that will tell a stand-alone story following a group of passengers facing a walker attack on an airline while in flight. One character who survives that encounter will then join the cast of Fear the Walking Dead in season 2. So, yes: Zombies on a Plane.
Previously, AMC has had stand-alone The Walking Dead online web series, but the network never used such content to introduce a new character before they joined the show. The airline attack story will debut online, and will unfold this in chapters that will air during Walking Dead’s on-air telecasts. In other words: You’re watching The Walking Dead, AMC cuts to commercial break, then you get a chapter in the as-yet-untitled stand-alone airline attack drama.
Beyond that, details are scarce. We assume the flight is headed to Los Angeles, since that’s the setting of Fear (L.A. residents, insert your LAX-is-already-run-by-zombies joke here). Our lingering questions: What’s the stand-alone content called? Who is the new character being introduced and who will play them? (Presumably AMC will be reluctant to release that because that would then reveal which passenger survives.) How many pieces of this interstitial will there be, and across how many Walking Dead episodes will it air?
A plane has been used a setting for a zombie outbreak before, most memorably during a sequence in the otherwise lackluster World War Z. There was also a 2007 movie called Flight of the Living Dead (which also carried the subtitle Outbreak on a Plane for those who didn’t find ”Flight of the Living Dead” clear enough). It will be intriguing to see how TWD’s team add new twists into that trapped-group premise. Producers of the special content include Dave Erickson and Fear co-executive prodcuer David Weiner.
The Walking Dead returns Oct. 11. Companion series Fear the Walking Dead recently premiered to a record 13.3 million viewers, including three days of DVR playback, making it the biggest series cable debut ever.
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