Electroconvulsive therapy is a safe and effective treatment for elderly patients suffering from depression. This treatment often produces better results than in younger patients and could reduce the need for hospital care, according…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a “zap-and-freeze” technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans.
Findings from the new experiments, supported by the…
A one-year-old infant who was not vaccinated against measles and had no underlying conditions died on Tuesday due to complications of the disease, the Health Ministry said.
The death marks the 11th fatality in Israel due to the measles…
This dashboard monitors the status of PEPFAR countries’ progress toward global HIV targets from 2019-2024. It includes data for 54 countries required to develop a PEPFAR Country or Regional…
Global health actors often describe certain populations as hard to reach. These communities are often located in geographically remote or conflict-affected regions where the delivery of essential health services is described as logistically…
Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a brain enzyme called OTULIN controls the expression of tau, the protein that forms toxic tangles in Alzheimer’s disease. The findings, published today in Genomic Psychiatry,…
The goal of this review is to gather and thoroughly examine the ways in which the immune system and microbiome interact. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview that will guide basic science researchers, clinicians, and…
In a new JNeurosci paper, Tian-Ming Gao and colleagues, from Southern Medical University, explored how adenosine triphosphate (ATP) signaling relates to depression and anxiety using male mice. ATP is a molecule that not…
Using a deep learning AI model, researchers identified the first-of-its-kind biomarker of chronic stress detectable through routine imaging, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological…
Malignant melanoma (MM) is a highly aggressive tumor derived from melanocytes. It can occur in the skin, mucosa (eg, head and neck, digestive tract, urogenital tract), and other sites, and is associated with a generally poor…