Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women who have suffered domestic abuse may have a higher risk of developing atopic diseases including asthma, new research has found. Published today in the Journal…
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Cannabis Use Disorder Linked to Increased Schizophrenia Risk in Males
Summary: Young men who suffer from cannabis use disorder are more likely to develop schizophrenia, according to a new study. The study analyzed health records data of over 6 million…
First RSV vaccine caps 60-year search to stem pervasive lung illness
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For 60 years, doctors and scientists searched for a vaccine against a common virus that, while sometimes deadly, is little known to the public. The hunt…
WHO declares COVID global emergency over
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than three years after the coronavirus began ravaging the planet, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday that the pandemic is no longer a public…
How interleukin-6 helps prevent allergic asthma and atopy by suppressing interleukin-2 signaling
Knowledge of this previously unrecognized mechanism may aid therapy for patients with interleukin-6 signaling mutations and hyper-IgE Syndrome, or HIES. Credit: University of Alabama at Birmingham The immune system has…
Study identifies features of Long COVID neurological symptoms
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Twelve people with persistent neurological symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection were intensely studied at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and were found to have differences in…
Underwater archaeologists reveal footage of Norway’s “oldest” shipwreck |
In 2022, a team from the Norwegian Défense Research Institute and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) announcement the discovery of a shipwreck during a survey to map…
Smart surgical implant coatings provide early failure warning while preventing infection
Smart coatings on orthopedic implants, developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, have bacteria-killing nanopillars on one side and strain-mapping flexible electronics on the other. This could help physicians guide…
WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?
A girl reacts as she receives a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Children above the age of 12 are now receiving…
Study reveals insights into post-vaccine heart inflammation cases
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When new COVID-19 vaccines were first administered two years ago, public health officials found an increase in cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle,…
