Electronic Sepsis Alarm for Newborns Flags Infection Hours Before Blood Tests
A retrospective case-control study found that an electronic health record based neonatal sepsis screening tool achieved 81 percent sensitivity and ...
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Antioxidant-Rich Diets Linked to Sharply Lower Lung Cancer Risk in Two Large Studies
Two large observational studies in China and the United Kingdom found that people with the most antioxidant-rich diets had roughly ...
Severe Morning Sickness Linked to a Surprising Drop in a Key Cellular Stress Protein
A prospective case-control study finds that women with hyperemesis gravidarum have significantly lower circulating ATF-4 levels than healthy pregnant controls, ...
Industrial Air Pollution in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor Linked to Higher Odds of Severe Infant Heart Defects
A first-of-its-kind Louisiana case-control study finds that mothers living in areas with the highest toxicity-weighted industrial air pollution face more ...
Iron, Lipids and Cell Death: Ferroptosis Biomarkers Emerge as Clues to Vitiligo Activity
A new case-control study finds that serum markers of ferroptosis, including ACSL4, MDA and ROS, are elevated in vitiligo vulgaris ...
Vitamin D Gene Variants Fail to Explain Bladder Cancer Risk in Turkish Study
A Turkish case-control study of 152 bladder cancer patients and 178 healthy controls found no significant association between the CYP24A1 ...
Immune Gene Profiles Linked to Higher EBV DNA Levels in Nasopharyngeal Cancer
A case-control study in southern China links the HLA-A*11:01-negative/KIR2DS4 Deleted/Deleted immune gene profile to significantly higher pretreatment plasma Epstein-Barr virus ...
Low Vitamin D and TSH Emerge as Striking Biochemical Signatures of Ovarian Syndrome
A case-control study of 160 Pakistani women finds that low vitamin D and lower-within-normal TSH are independently associated with polyendocrine ...
Ultrasound Stiffness Test Detects Knee Fat Pad Edema With Striking Accuracy
A Turkish case-control study reports that shear wave elastography detects MRI-confirmed suprapatellar fat pad edema with excellent diagnostic accuracy, doubling ...
Scientists Reassess COVID-19 Genetic Risk Findings After Statistical Challenge
A research team has reanalyzed its COVID-19 genetic association data, confirming the Factor V Leiden finding while downgrading the MTHFR ...
Maternal Health Clues Emerge in Study of Hypospadias in Southern China
A hospital-based case-control study of 96 hypospadias cases and 480 controls in Hainan, China, links the congenital anomaly to maternal ...
Mild COVID-19 and Malaria Leave Distinct Blood Clotting Signatures in Men and Women
A case-control study in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, finds that mild COVID-19, malaria, and co-infection all elevate platelet distribution width and ...
Birth Complications Drive Neonatal Deaths in Ethiopian Hospitals, Study Finds
A case-control study of 495 newborn records in Tigray, Ethiopia, identifies birth asphyxia, neonatal infections, meconium aspiration, and mode of ...
Sleep Disorder and Memory Problems May Signal Parkinson’s Years Before Diagnosis
A large All of Us study finds that REM sleep behavior disorder, mild cognitive impairment, and orthostatic hypotension are the ...
HPV Vaccine Before Pregnancy Tied to Lower Risk of Preterm Birth, Major Complications
A large Swedish study in The BMJ links quadrivalent HPV vaccination before pregnancy with lower odds of preterm birth and ...
Genetic Variant in Surfactant Protein D May Shield Carriers From Severe COVID-19
A large Czech case-control study finds that carriers of the T allele of the SFTPD rs721917 variant may be modestly ...
Melatonin Runs Low in Type 2 Diabetes but Fails to Flag Kidney Damage, Study Finds
A new case-control study finds serum melatonin is sharply depleted in type 2 diabetes and tightly coupled to antioxidant status, ...
Eyes Locked Downward: Imbalanced Inner-Ear Reflexes May Explain a Puzzling Neurological Sign
A case–control study using the video head impulse test finds that patients with spontaneous downbeat nystagmus show reduced gains in ...
Obesity, Skin Barriers and Swelling Drive Cellulitis Risk, Large Study Finds
A large retrospective case-control study from the Medical University of Vienna identifies skin barrier breaches, oedema, obesity and other factors ...
Detox Gene Variants Linked to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk in Iraqi Arab Men
A case-control study of Iraqi Arab men found that the NAT2*6A haplotype and related reduced-function variants of the xenobiotic-metabolizing gene ...
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