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Bipolar disorder cuts lives short more than smoking

Having bipolar disorder – a serious mental illness that can cause both manic and depressed moods – can make life more challenging.

4 Jan 2024

Sample type and time of collection play a role in the diagnosis of scrub typhus

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Scrub typhus (ST) is an acute febrile illness caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. Laboratory tests are needed to confirm the diagnosis when the characteristic eschar is absent.

4 Jan 2024

Novel population health tool for predicting ICU survivorship and mortality in older adults

A significant obstacle to improving care and outcomes for intensive care unit (ICU) patients is the unexpected nature of becoming seriously ill.

4 Jan 2024

Research identifies genetic connection between anorexia and morning chronotype

New research indicates that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is associated with being an early riser, unlike many other disorders that tend to be evening-based such as depression, binge eating disorder and schizophrenia.

4 Jan 2024

Global study reveals varied intention to receive monkeypox vaccine: 61% prevalence worldwide

The global prevalence and regional differences in the intention to receive the monkeypox.

4 Jan 2024

Wearing hearing aids could extend people's lifespan

Hearing loss affects approximately 40 million American adults, yet only one in 10 people who need hearing aids use them, research shows.

3 Jan 2024

Vegetables, legumes, and seafood diet linked to lower heart risk in older men

Study reveals that a diet rich in vegetables, legumes, and seafood significantly reduces the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in men over 75, compared to diets high in whole grains, milk, fruits, or processed meats.

3 Jan 2024

Human vs. cow's milk fortifier in preterm infants: No significant outcome difference, study finds

Study compares the effects of feeding extremely preterm infants with human milk fortified with either human milk-based fortifier (HMBF) or cow's milk-based fortifier (BMBF), finding no significant difference in the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, or death.

3 Jan 2024

EGCG effect: Study suggests green tea compound may ease inflammatory iron deficiency

Whether a polyphenol found in green tea, reduces inflammation.

3 Jan 2024

Spicing up the fight: Saffron's powerful impact on prostate cancer revealed

Saffron-treated prostate cancer (PCa) cells.

3 Jan 2024

Are pan-coronavirus vaccines an achievable goal in providing broad protection against human coronaviruses?

The current achievements in the development of a pan-coronavirus vaccine.

3 Jan 2024

Dutch study finds that abstaining from caffeine can increase sleep disturbances in older women

Whether coffee consumption was associated with low sleep quality.

3 Jan 2024

Hybrid immunity's role in curbing COVID-19: Canadian study sheds light on vaccine-infection synergy

Study evaluates the impact of hybrid immunity on SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels in Canadian adults, revealing that hybrid immunity, combining vaccination and recovery from infection, significantly reduces COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.

2 Jan 2024

RSV vaccines would dramatically reduce disease burden if widely adopted like flu shots

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines recently approved for people 60 and older would dramatically reduce the disease's significant burden of illness and death in the United States if they were widely adopted like annual influenza vaccines, a new study has found.

2 Jan 2024

$Lisocabtagene maraleucel: A cost-effective second-line treatment for relapsed/refractory DLBCL$

Lisocabtagene maraleucel: A cost-effective second-line treatment for relapsed/refractory DLBCL

Lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel), a CAR T-cell therapy, is a cost effective second line treatment for relapsed and refractory (hard to treat) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (r/r DLBCL), according to a study published today in Blood Advances.

28 Dec 2023

New non-steroidal anti-inflammatory can inhibit the cytokine storm and preserve innate immunity

Very early in the COVID-19 pandemic clinical trials in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 confirmed that corticosteroids like dexamethasone reduced mortality, but they were harmful when applied at the first COVID-19 symptoms, due to the weakening of innate antiviral immunity, leading to delayed viral clearance and adverse outcomes in severe viral pneumonias.

28 Dec 2023

Mortality News and Research

Bipolar disorder cuts lives short more than smoking

Sample type and time of collection play a role in the diagnosis of scrub typhus

Novel population health tool for predicting ICU survivorship and mortality in older adults

Research identifies genetic connection between anorexia and morning chronotype

Global study reveals varied intention to receive monkeypox vaccine: 61% prevalence worldwide

Wearing hearing aids could extend people's lifespan

Vegetables, legumes, and seafood diet linked to lower heart risk in older men

Human vs. cow's milk fortifier in preterm infants: No significant outcome difference, study finds

EGCG effect: Study suggests green tea compound may ease inflammatory iron deficiency

Spicing up the fight: Saffron's powerful impact on prostate cancer revealed

Are pan-coronavirus vaccines an achievable goal in providing broad protection against human coronaviruses?

Dutch study finds that abstaining from caffeine can increase sleep disturbances in older women

Hybrid immunity's role in curbing COVID-19: Canadian study sheds light on vaccine-infection synergy

RSV vaccines would dramatically reduce disease burden if widely adopted like flu shots

Lisocabtagene maraleucel: A cost-effective second-line treatment for relapsed/refractory DLBCL

New non-steroidal anti-inflammatory can inhibit the cytokine storm and preserve innate immunity

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': 2023 is a wrap

Digital health algorithm drastically cuts antibiotic use in Tanzanian children

Over 1 million deaths linked to antimicrobial resistance in Africa

Daily toothbrushing in hospitals linked to significant drop in pneumonia cases and ICU mortality rates

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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