Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Half of patients discharged from the emergency department need only five tablets or fewer of morphine 5mg or an equivalent opioid pain killer, according to new…
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Islet transplantation boosts long-term survival in kidney transplant recipients with type 1 diabetes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Islet transplantation significantly reduces the risk of transplantation failure and enhances life expectancy in individuals with type 1 diabetes who undergo kidney transplantation, a new study…
Neonatal kidney transplantation offers new hope in the organ shortage crisis, study shows
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research, presented at the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Congress 2023, demonstrates that neonatal kidney transplantation can offer a ‘game-changing’ solution to the pressing…
Moderna reveals new highly targeted COVID-19 vaccine mRNA-1283
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Moderna has developed a new and improved version of its COVID-19 vaccine. The unique formulation (mRNA-1283) reduces the vaccine’s content from the full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike protein…
Syphilis transmission networks and antimicrobial resistance in England uncovered using genomics
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 ,…
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…
