Photomicrograph of skin biopsy showing secondary syphilis. Spirochete organisms are stained bright red by the Treponema pallidum immunohistochemical stain. 400x magnification. Credit: Jerad M. Gardner, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0 ,…
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Sens. Sanders, Marshall reach deal on health programs, but challenges remain
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced Thursday that he has reached a deal with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., to reauthorize and…
MRI observation of human embryos at a one-hundredth-of-millimeter resolution
Photo of 9.4 T magnet (left) and a sample of MR images (right). Credit: University of Tsukuba Magnetic resonance (MR) microscope has previously been used to observe chemically fixed specimens…
Protect yourself and loved ones with the new RSV vaccines
Transmission electron micrograph of RSV. Credit: CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer / Public Domain National medicine regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), recently approved the world’s first vaccines to prevent…
Study decodes surprising approach mice take in learning
Mice display noisy behavior in a deterministic reversal learning task. Credit: PLOS Computational Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011430 Neuroscience discoveries ranging from the nature of memory to treatments for disease have…
Researchers pinpoint molecular signature of post-stroke depression
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Earlier in 2023, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman checked himself into a hospital for clinical depression after suffering a near-fatal stroke. Fetterman’s case of post-stroke depression may…
Overdose deaths from fentanyl laced stimulants have risen 50-fold since 2010
A simplified schema of the four waves of the US overdose mortality crisis. Waves 1 and 2 include deaths involving commonly prescribed opioids, and heroin, respectively, but excluding fentanyl co-involved…
Youth with PTSD get relief from proven treatment, study shows
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Only 31% of efforts to integrate proven treatments into health care systems are successful, recent data has found. A team of clinic administrators, clinicians, policymakers and…
Gut bacteria key to fighting colorectal cancer, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Metabolites produced by gut bacteria during digestion can be used to trigger an immune response against colorectal cancer cells, according to new University of Alberta research,…
Certain proteins in breast milk found to be essential for a baby’s healthy gut
Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than 320 million years of mammalian evolution has adapted breast milk to meet all the physiological needs of babies: It contains not only nutrients, but…
