Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An investigational gene therapy has successfully restored immune function in all nine children treated with the rare and life-threatening immune disorder called severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I,…
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AI tools can make education materials more patient friendly
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) tools significantly improve the readability of online patient education materials (PEMs), making them more accessible, a new study shows. Led by researchers at…
Parents with alcohol-related diagnoses are twice as likely to maltreat children, researchers find
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new systematic review has found that parents and other child caregivers who have alcohol-related diagnoses are twice as likely to maltreat children in their care…
AI-driven analysis of digital pathology images may improve pediatric sarcoma subtyping
Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels An artificial intelligence (AI)-based model accurately classified pediatric sarcomas using digital pathology images alone, according to results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research…
Unexpected hives reaction seen in trial of mRNA vax against HIV
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A safety analysis of mRNA vaccination in a phase 1, randomized, open-label clinical trial evaluated the safety and tolerability of three investigational HIV-1 trimer mRNA vaccines.…
Women are overtaking men in the most extreme sports events, study shows
Start of the Alaska Ski Classic. Credit: Robert Coker Much of the work devoted to exploring potential sex-specific differences in exercise or sports performance has been derived from laboratory-based studies.…
Metal exposure linked to childhood gut health
Credit: Environmental Science & Technology (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c09642 A new study led by The University of Texas at Arlington, University of California Los Angeles, University of Sherbrooke, and Harvard University…
Medicaid cuts may disproportionately affect Black, Latino doctors and their patients
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Los Angeles pediatrician and urgent care specialist Dr. Ilan Shapiro worries for his chronically ill patients as he watches Congress weigh significant cuts to Medicaid. He…
Bird flu in cows shows no signs of adapting to humans — yet
WASHINGTON — When traces of H5N1 bird flu showed up in cow’s milk last year, it raised fears that the virus could become more infectious to humans. So far, that…
Global study links consumption of ultraprocessed foods to preventable premature deaths
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study analyzing data from nationally representative dietary surveys and mortality data from eight countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States)…
