Smoking reduction, and especially smoking cessation, were shown to be associated with lowering cancer risks in a population-based study. Results of the study were published in the journal Cancer. Th… [+3525 chars]
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects about 1 in 50,000 people. Well-known people who suffered from ALS include baseball player Lou Gehrig, who lived t… [+3536 chars]
Researchers at the Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa have discovered that a kind of kiss between cells, called trogocytosis, plays a key role in the battle between the immune system and bl… [+2642 chars]
The first signs of the most recent Covid-19 waves have often been detected in our sewers instead of nasal swabs. But in the future, the potential for human waste to tell us about what is happening w… [+9605 chars]
A scientific analysis of metabolites from plant-based-diets especially those rich in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables may in the future yield clues as to how such eating patterns lower the risk o… [+2907 chars]
MILAN: Vaccines against COVID-19 have roughly halved the death toll from the disease in Italy, preventing some 150,000 fatalities and 8 million cases last year, the National Health Institute (ISS) es… [+1200 chars]
New research has identified a pair of independent risk factors for recurrent clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in prophylactic probiotics and nasogastric feeding tube use. A team, led by Yuki Y… [+3145 chars]
A recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, has stated that the third booster dose of mRNA-based coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines is 68% effecti… [+4757 chars]
Almost everyone vaccinated for Covid-19 over the last 16 months will remember that he or she received a quick prick in the upper arm. This is because most vaccines, including those for Covid-19, are … [+4854 chars]
A healthy lifestyle was tied to a longer life but the extra years did not mean more time living with Alzheimer's dementia, a prospective study showed. People who had four or five healthy lifestyle f… [+4330 chars]
Hospitalized patients who are asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile carriers may infect people they live with after they return home, a study based on US insurance claim data suggests. Although C. d… [+5536 chars]
Cancer cells can disrupt a metabolic pathway that breaks down fats and proteins to boost the levels of a byproduct called methylmalonic acid, thereby driving metastasis, according to research led by … [+3193 chars]
