Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a natural mechanism that clears existing amyloid plaques in the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and preserves cognitive function. The mechanism involves…
A research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), has discovered that the marine bacterium Photobacterium…
At 501 in 22 countries, the numbers of confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in commercial poultry have surpassed the totals for 2024, which were 451 and 20, respectively. The outbreak figure looks likely to pass the 2023…
As artificial intelligence’s role in healthcare rapidly expands, a comprehensive new report co-authored by UCLA Health states that the same technology that can help doctors detect strokes or seizures could also worsen health…
Over 1,642,106 person-years of follow-up, 19,140 MACE events occurred (incidence rate 11.66 per 1000 person-years; 95% CI: 11.49–11.82) (Supplementary Table S6 and Table S7). In the MACE analysis, the…
Ortblad’s R01 project aims to solve a vexing problem: the fact that individuals at risk of exposure to HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), or who have been recently exposed to the virus, can sometimes fail to receive, or to use, medications…
The blue light that tablets emit is believed to make sleep less restful. However, an experimental study with young children was unable to confirm this assumption.
It is often said that the blue light emitted by tablets and phones…
A phase 3 randomized trial of 18,476 adults found that Pfizer’s quadrivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) influenza vaccine demonstrated statistically superior efficacy compared with a licensed quadrivalent inactivated vaccine during the…
