Category: 6. Health

Original story from the University of California Riverside (CA, USA). 

New research suggests Alzheimer’s arises not simply from plaques forming in the brain, but from one protein interfering with the normal job of another.

For…

Patients continuously monitored after surgery experienced significantly less time with dangerously low oxygen levels compared to those monitored using routine spot checks, a new study from Wake Forest University School of…

An international consortium has achieved a major breakthrough in the diagnosis of neurological diseases. In a recent publication in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, they describe the discovery of a new quantitative biomarker…

The study pinpointed a specific schizophrenia biomarker using which the scientists can identify a subgroup of people who would most likely respond well to this SEAD1-based peptide drug, they said |Image used for…

Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease or major cardiovascular risk factors reported less cost-related medication non-adherence-skipping or reducing doses, delaying prescription fills or foregoing medications due to cost-after…

Deep cuts from accidents or surgeries require stitches, typically followed by oral anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen. While these medications help with pain, they don’t act specifically on the wounds. Consequently, the…

After decades of decline in the developed world, tuberculosis (TB) is back on the rise, and increasingly resistant to our best antibiotics.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling it a public health crisis – but help may be on the…

They found that as well as high levels of immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, the population also had immunity against a range of “sarbecoviruses” – the wider family of viruses to which SARS-CoV-2…

A technique that transforms immune cells into cancer-seeking bloodhounds may overcome a roadblock that has hampered immunotherapy for solid tumors, according to a new study by Stanford Medicine researchers.

The approach equips certain types of…