by Chayanit Itthipongmaetee with Faith Brown in Manila and Anuj Chopra in Washington AFP’s fact-checkers have exposed a slew of cases around the world in which fraudsters impersonated doctors. A…
Category: Health & Medicine
Loneliness linked with elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Loneliness is a bigger risk factor for heart disease in patients with diabetes than diet, exercise, smoking and depression, according to research published June 29 in…
Gonorrhea shot gets FDA fast track as resistant cases multiply
Credit: CDC GSK Plc’s experimental gonorrhea vaccine got fast-track designation from U.S. regulators, putting the shot in position to become the first preventive for a common, often-undetected infection that’s gaining…
How heart attack and stroke survivors can prepare for wildfires and hurricanes
Environmental disasters are difficult for anyone. For people with cardiovascular disease, they can be particularly risky. As wildfire and hurricane seasons kick into high gear, experts urge extra caution for…
Team introduces new approach in cancer therapy with innovative mechanism-of-action for ferroptosis induction
FSP1 condensates in green induced by icFSP1 surrounding a blue nucleus. Credit: Toshitaka Nakamura A team of researchers led by Dr. Marcus Conrad from Helmholtz Munich has discovered a novel…
Debate sizzles as meat eating hits new low in Germany
The greater availability of alternatives is likely one of the reasons why Germans are eating less meat. Florian Busmann used to enjoy sausages and steak on the barbecue in summer,…
Reading for pleasure early in childhood linked to better cognitive performance and mental well-being in adolescence
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a…
Research team achieves near-perfect bone healing with new multi-leveled scaffold
(a) Schematic representation of the (a) bone structure and its composition ranging from nanometers to micrometers and (b) development of biomimetic scaffolds containing the various steps for preparing a combinatorial…
Genomics- and image-guided subtyping refines characterization of Alzheimer’s disease
Right and left hemisphere brain surface plots showing the strength of the canonical vector, νƙ, for each subtype. Credit: Images created by Fan Yang, UMass Amherst, Ph.D. A new computational…
