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Healthcare personnel who are pregnant or breastfeeding may get vaccinated for COVID-19, but there are many considerations that go into that decision. Source: Vaccination Considerations for People who are Pregnant or Breastfeeding
Continue Reading →Apathy — a lack of interest or motivation — could predict the onset of some forms of dementia many years before symptoms start, offering a ‘window of opportunity’ to treat the disease at an early stage, according to new research. Source: Apathy could predict onset of dementia years before other symptoms
Continue Reading →Meier-Gorlin syndrome, or MGS, is a rare genetic developmental disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other skeletal abnormalities. One mutation causing MGS, first reported in 2017, is a Lysine 23 to Glutamic acid (K23E) substitution in the gene for Orc6. Researchers have now put that mutant human gene into […]
Continue Reading →For the first time, researchers have measured the physical evidence of diminished neural processing within the brain after a stroke. Source: Emerging from the fog: Little understood post-stroke cognitive issues are verified
Continue Reading →For the first time, researchers have measured the physical evidence of diminished neural processing within the brain after a stroke. Source: Emerging from the fog: Little understood post-stroke cognitive issues are verified
Continue Reading →For COVID-19 patients with serious lung disease, targeting endothelial cells — cells that comprise the blood vessel wall which regulate oxygen exchange between airways and the bloodstream — may be a novel approach restoring normal lung function. Source: Endothelial cell targeting could help fight COVID-19 symptoms, study shows
Continue Reading →Researchers have shown that the coronavirus can be killed efficiently, quickly, and cheaply using ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs). They believe that the UV-LED technology will soon be available for private and commercial use. Source: UV-emitting LED lights found to kill coronavirus
Continue Reading →The results of a pre-clinical study suggest how a compound derived from the thunder god vine — an herb used in China for centuries to treat joint pain, swelling and fever — is able to kill cancer cells and potentially improve clinical outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer. Source: Compound derived from thunder god vine […]
Continue Reading →Gait training using robotic exoskeletons improved motor function in adolescents and young adults with acquired brain injury. Source: Robotic exoskeleton training improves walking in adolescents with acquired brain injury
Continue Reading →According to new research from behavioral economists, irrelevant information or unavailable options often cause people to make bad choices. When both elements are present, the probability of a poor decision is even greater. Through an experiment involving 222 individual tests each consisting of more than 40 questions, research revealed that decisions made in an environment […]
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