Health
5,500 people diagnosed with rare genetic diseases in major research study
Around 5,500 people with severe developmental disorders now know the genetic cause of their condition, thanks to a major nationwide...
New technique allows researchers to dig into molecular causes of pediatric bipolar disorder
It’s extremely difficult to study the biological basis of psychiatric disorders, in part because researchers can’t easily collect brain cells...
Selenium as a predictor of metabolic syndrome in middle age women
“Recently, optimizing selenium intake in the population to prevent diseases has been an important issue in modern health care worldwide.”Credit:...
Google Trends reveal how the spread of chickenpox may have been suppressed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283465Credit: Sabale et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283465 Article Title: Impact assessment of...
Decoding Insomnia: Machine learning model predicts sleep disorders from patient records
A machine learning model can effectively predict a patient’s risk for a sleep disorder using demographic and lifestyle data, physical...
Industry veteran Pablo Velez, RN, Ph.D., named CEO of El Centro Regional Medical Center
In coordination with the El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) Board of Trustees, UC San Diego Health today announced that...
Henry Ford Health cardiologists first in US to successfully implant novel tricuspid LuX valve
DETROIT (April 12, 2023) – Henry Ford Hospital structural heart interventional cardiologists Pedro Villablanca, M.D., and Brian O’Neill, M.D., are...
‘Carb’ treatment for stroke receives new U.S. patent
A new twist on a drug used to treat alcohol use disorder could double up as a treatment for stroke,...
Most plastic eaten by city vultures comes straight from food outlets
Since the 1950s, humanity has produced an estimated 8.3bn tons of plastic, adding a further 380m tons to this amount...
Tick-borne Powassan virus is being transmitted in concentrated clusters in New England, Yale study says
A new study by investigators with the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) finds that the tick-borne Powassan virus is...
Bringing racial equity to kidney transplant evaluation
African Americans are more than three times as likely to have kidney failure than Whites but four times less likely...
New approach targets norovirus, world’s leading cause of foodborne infection
Every year, norovirus causes hundreds of millions of cases of food poisoning — and the deaths of at least 50,000...
Daily statin reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV, large NIH study finds
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial was stopped early because a daily statin medication was found to reduce...
Funding to Daniel Anderson’s lab will advance research on new delivery technology for RNA vaccines and therapies
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Sanofi will provide $25 million over five years to the lab of MIT Professor Daniel Anderson, to...
The roly-poly gold rush
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – The woodlouse goes by many names: roly-poly, pill bug, potato bug, tomato bug, butchy boy,...
Improving gene therapy with tiny bubbles
CLEVELAND—Beyond vaccines, mRNA offers immense potential to fight disease, but targeting the genetic material to specific diseased cells is challenging—requiring...
Mutant strains of Salmonella make infection more aggressive in commercial poultry, study shows
In Brazil, a group of researchers supported by FAPESP created mutant forms of Salmonella to understand the mechanisms that favor colonization of...
Over 60 percent of Saudi Arabian respondents never took a colorectal cancer test | BGI Insight
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most diagnosed cancer among males and third among females in Saudi Arabia, with up to...
Mint flavor makes vape juice more toxic, damaging to lungs
PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2023 – Adding mint flavor to e-cigarette liquids produces more vapor particles and is associated with worse...
A new primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Over the past few years, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in...
