Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels Globally, more than half of patients die after infection with the neglected tropical disease, melioidosis, often before they are diagnosed. A new rapid test could…
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COVID lowered life expectancy by 1.6 years worldwide: Study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a more dramatic decline…
Vaccine monitoring is crucial as SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to evolve, says study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre at UCLH have highlighted the importance of continued…
Impact of onset time, number, type, and sequence of extrahepatic organ failure on prognosis of liver failure
by Xia & He Publishing Inc. Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology (2024). DOI: 10.14218/JCTH.2023.00379 The impact of the characteristics of extrahepatic organ failure (EHOF) including the…
New treatment could transform the mental health of children with epilepsy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new psychological treatment for children with epilepsy, developed by a UCL-led team of scientists, has been shown to reduce mental health difficulties compared to standard…
Long COVID may harm cognition
In a finding that unearths yet another way Long COVID can harm health, new research finds the condition may trigger thinking declines. Published Thursday in the New England Journal of…
COVID-19 rapid tests still work against new variants—researchers keep ‘testing the tests,’ and they pass
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain By September 2020, just six months after COVID-19 triggered shutdowns across the U.S., it was clear that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had mutated from…
An overgrowth of nerve cells appears to cause lingering symptoms after recurrent UTIs
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain, even after antibiotics have successfully cleared the bacteria. Now Duke Health researchers…
Learning and memory problems in Down syndrome linked to alterations in genome’s ‘dark matter’
The activity of Snhg11 (red) pictured in the dentate gyrus region of the hippocampus in mice. Credit: Cesar Sierra/Centro de Regulación Genómica (CRG) Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation…
‘Hexaplex’ vaccine aims to boost flu protection
Graphical Abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101433 Recombinant protein vaccines, like the Novavax vaccine used to fight COVID-19, offer several advantages over conventional vaccines. They’re easy to produce…
