Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Former professional American football players who have medical and mental health conditions including depression, anxiety or sleep apnea are more likely to receive an unverified diagnosis…
Category: Health & Medicine
Study identifies six drugs that can be repurposed for treatment of toxoplasmosis
COVID Box compounds were initially evaluated in human cells infected by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Credit: Ke Hu and John M. Murray/Wikimedia Commons Scientists are looking for new ways to…
Zebrafish avatars can help tailor glioblastoma therapies
Patient-derived tumor cells (green) growing in a zebrafish embryo with its vascular network labeled in yellow, and its macrophages, a type of immune cell, in red. Credit: Lise Finotto, VIB –…
New robot could help diagnose breast cancer early
The device. Credit: George Jenkinson A device has been created that could carry out clinical breast examinations (CBE). The manipulator, designed by a team at the University of Bristol and…
Infant immune systems found to have unique and effective responses to SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Cell (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.08.044 Research led by the University of Tübingen, Germany, along with partners at Stanford University, Emory University and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, U.S., has…
New Medicare Advantage plans tailor offerings to Asian Americans, Latinos and LGBTQ+
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As Medicare Advantage continues to gain popularity among seniors, three Southern California companies are pioneering new types of plans that target cultural and ethnic communities with…
Sobering data from a global decade-long study
Credit: CC0 Public Domain With New York’s declared state of emergency following flash flooding, there is increasing concern such events will become more common globally. Now a study led by…
Calls for verbal abuse of children by adults to be formally recognized as form of child maltreatment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new systematic review by researchers at UCL and Wingate University has highlighted the importance of identifying childhood verbal abuse by adults as a standalone subtype…
Nobel in medicine goes to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Katalin Kariko, speaks after receiving, together with six other scientists, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research 2021 from Spain’s Princess of Asturias Leonor, at a ceremony…
Researchers study nearly 1,000 fertility attempts hoping to improve IVF
Credit: Christian Ottolini By genetically testing nearly 1,000 embryos, scientists have provided the most detailed analysis of embryo fate following human in vitro fertilization. Nearly half the embryos studied underwent…
