SYDNEY, March 12 (Xinhua) — A recent surge in measles cases in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has predominantly been driven by infections acquired in Southeast Asia, health authorities said on Thursday.
The NSW Department of…
The rise in invasive cosmetic procedures demands tighter regulation, better consumer protection, and greater awareness to protect patient safety and reduce cosmetic tourism, argue experts in The BMJ today.
The global market for…
How people with compromised immune systems respond to vaccines is an important area of immunological research. A new study led by York University found that not only could machine-learning models accurately pinpoint…
Medical Express Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease’s development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research…
Science Alert COVID vaccines saved millions of lives, but months into the rollout, a small number of people began developing dangerous blood clots in unusual parts of the body.
These only happened after vaccines that used a modified…
Brazil health officials have launched an innovative malaria treatment for children in the Unified Health System (SUS) . With this measure, Brazil becomes the first country in the world to make tafenoquine available in a 50 mg pediatric…
The largest study to date of vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, and meat-eating diets has identified that vegetarian diets are associated with a lower risk of several cancers, but a higher risk of one cancer type.
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In a randomized clinical trial of older adults, researchers found that taking multivitamins for two years modestly slowed epigenetic markers of aging — equivalent to roughly four months less biological aging compared with a placebo.
Li et…
A multi-center study led by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s sheds surprising new light on why some newborns become severely ill from Escherichia coli infection, but others do not.
Turns out that most babies are immune because…
An enigmatic type of circulating tumor cell called a dual-positive (DP) cell is associated with shorter survival time in patients with advanced breast cancer, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and…