When a cancer has been found to be limited to a single area of the body at initial diagnosis (Stages I, II, and III), cancer doctors focus on control of both the original primary tumor and also work … [+2955 chars]
As current therapies for Alzheimers disease focus on preventing cognitive decline and treating symptoms, rather than a cure, it is critical to determine amyloid pathology early in the Alzheimers dise… [+6041 chars]
Laboratory studies of lung tissue usually require the removal of large amounts of human or animal tissue. Now scientists from the University of Freiburg's Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in collab… [+3190 chars]
When Inger Heimdal started studying the coronavirus in children in 2014, not many people thought the topic sounded particularly exciting. Coronavirus was considered quite harmless and of little inte… [+6753 chars]
The question on everyone's mind is whether the U.S. will have an easy, COVID-free spring, or if we're in for a resurgence in cases as the BA.2 variant of Omicron becomes dominant. Public health offi… [+3479 chars]
Sudden weight loss might be a result of an imbalance in the biological ecosystem of the body, if one is not having regular exercises and a controlled diet for an effective weight loss. It can be a sy… [+297 chars]
In a study led by Cedars-Sinai, researchers have uncovered new information about how the area of the brain responsible for memory is triggered when the eyes come to rest on a face versus another obje… [+4654 chars]
The promise and pitfalls of cuffless blood pressure measurement were addressed during the 2022 Cardiovascular Health Tech virtual conference, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics … [+14299 chars]
image: Coronaviruses tend to mutate into a fairly harmless virus, according to the opinion of PhD candidate Inger Heimdal following her study of the four common coronaviruses already in existence bef… [+7225 chars]
First manufactured more than 50 years ago, ketamine is a fast-acting dissociative anesthetic often used in veterinary and emergency medicine. Ketamine also has a history of being an illicit party dru… [+3179 chars]
The only certain thing about the future of SARS-CoV-2 variants is that nothing is certain -- but researchers in the U.S. are doing their best to keep an eye out for the next troublesome variant, even… [+8737 chars]
Two doses of an mRNA vaccine such as that made by PfizerBioNTech provide similar protection against two subvariants of SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty The Omicron sub… [+3845 chars]
