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Developing software solutions to monitor post-stroke rehabilitation and improve patient recovery

According to the study 'The impact of stroke in Europe', by King's College for the European Stroke Alliance, between 2015 and 2035 there will be a 34% increase in the number of cases in Europe (up to 819,771).

5 May 2022

Reduced-calorie diet plus time-restricted eating promote longevity in mice

One recipe for longevity is simple, if not easy to follow: eat less. Studies in a variety of animals have shown that restricting calories can lead to a longer, healthier life.

5 May 2022

$Using AI to predict how cancer may affect the probability of spinal fractures$

Using AI to predict how cancer may affect the probability of spinal fractures

As medicine continues to embrace machine learning, a new study suggests how scientists may use artificial intelligence to predict how cancer may affect the probability of fractures along the spinal column.

5 May 2022

Acute hepatitis and adenovirus infection among pediatric patients in Alabama

A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today, "Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children - Alabama, October 2021–February 2022" provides additional clinical and epidemiologic information from an ongoing investigation involving children in Alabama with hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) of unknown cause.

5 May 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Leaked abortion opinion rocks Washington’s world

People who pay attention to the Supreme Court have been expecting the justices to scale back the right to abortion when they issue their ruling on a Mississippi abortion law by the end of the current session.

5 May 2022

Crucial discovery could inform potential strategies to control malaria transmission

WEHI researchers in Melbourne have made a crucial discovery about how asymptomatic malaria infections impact the body, informing potential strategies to control transmission and improve treatment outcomes.

5 May 2022

Tattoo-like sensors derived from silk protein track blood oxygen levels

People get tattoos to remember an event or a person, to make a statement, or simply as an aesthetic embellishment.

5 May 2022

‘Smart’ diaper could provide painless and quick bedside urinalyses

Urine can reveal a lot about a person's health. But physicians don't currently have a convenient or fast way of tracking the concentration of important compounds in their patients' urine.

5 May 2022

Study finds racial and ethnic differences in rising uterine cancer mortality rates in the United States

Deaths from uterine cancer are rising in the United States, and are highest among non-Hispanic Black women, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

5 May 2022

Combination of certain drugs along with ibuprofen can cause acute kidney injury

Anyone who is taking a diuretic and a renin-angiotensin system (RSA) inhibitor for high blood pressure should be cautious about also taking ibuprofen, according to new research.

5 May 2022

COVID-19 pandemic associated with increased anxiety and asthma symptoms in asthma sufferers

In the past two years, COVID-19 has provoked anxiety throughout the world for people worried they and their loved ones would get the virus and suffer tragic consequences.

5 May 2022

Evaluating the findings of phase 3 clinical trial of plant-based COVID-19 vaccine

A new study has presented the safety and efficacy profiles of a plant-based adjuvanted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine in human participants.

5 May 2022

Emotional impact of COVID-19 on women academics in South Africa

A new South African study reveals the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on women academics in particular.

5 May 2022

Low-cost handheld device could cut the rate of unnecessary skin biopsies

Skin biopsies are no fun: doctors carve away small lumps of tissue for laboratory testing, leaving patients with painful wounds that can take weeks to heal.

5 May 2022

Effects of diet on COVID-19 outcomes

A new study explores the effects of diet on COVID-19 outcomes.

5 May 2022

Outcomes of COVID-19 treatment with Paxlovid

Researchers investigated the outcomes of COVID-19 treatment with paxlovid.

5 May 2022

Discovery provides critical clues to why many immunotherapies trigger dangerous side effects

It's not often that a failed clinical trial leads to a scientific breakthrough. When patients in the UK started showing adverse side effects during a cancer immunotherapy trial, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and University of Liverpool went back through the data and worked with patient samples to see what went wrong.

5 May 2022

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Developing software solutions to monitor post-stroke rehabilitation and improve patient recovery

Reduced-calorie diet plus time-restricted eating promote longevity in mice

Using AI to predict how cancer may affect the probability of spinal fractures

Acute hepatitis and adenovirus infection among pediatric patients in Alabama

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Leaked abortion opinion rocks Washington’s world

Crucial discovery could inform potential strategies to control malaria transmission

Tattoo-like sensors derived from silk protein track blood oxygen levels

‘Smart’ diaper could provide painless and quick bedside urinalyses

Study finds racial and ethnic differences in rising uterine cancer mortality rates in the United States

Combination of certain drugs along with ibuprofen can cause acute kidney injury

COVID-19 pandemic associated with increased anxiety and asthma symptoms in asthma sufferers

Evaluating the findings of phase 3 clinical trial of plant-based COVID-19 vaccine

Emotional impact of COVID-19 on women academics in South Africa

Low-cost handheld device could cut the rate of unnecessary skin biopsies

Effects of diet on COVID-19 outcomes

Outcomes of COVID-19 treatment with Paxlovid

Discovery provides critical clues to why many immunotherapies trigger dangerous side effects

SARS-CoV-2 develops partial resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir in cell culture

Results indicate that Omicron infection induces low levels of neutralizing antibodies in immunocompetent individuals

£1.5 million funding to support new project using an at-home test to detect HPV

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

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