The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with immediate decreases in filled buprenorphine prescriptions by members of racial- and ethnic-minority groups but not White patients, according to a study publi… [+2254 chars]
Cape Town-based healthtech firm Vantage Health Technologies and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) have unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) project, which they say will significantly… [+3274 chars]
This story is Part II of a series on tick-borne disease. Here we discuss the severity and spread of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, the only hemorrhagic fever transmitted by ticks. Crimean-Congo He… [+7768 chars]
A new method to combat malaria which sees the disease turn against itself could offer an effective treatment for the hundreds of millions of people infected globally each year, as the efficacy of cur… [+3049 chars]
Following the World Health Organization's (WHO's) announcement of an outbreak of monkeypox, several Facebook posts have suggested that a vaccine against Covid-19 could be the cause. The posts includ… [+4272 chars]
Laura Boekel and colleagues pooled data from two large ongoing prospective cohort studies and analyzed post-vaccination serum samples for evidence of breakthrough infection. They report that the inci… [+2306 chars]
Summary: Fragmented tau that accumulates in neurons in those with Alzheimer’s disease may be a new target for drugs to treat the neurodegenerative disease. Source: UCSF In a new study of Alzheimers… [+6885 chars]
At the 2022 EULAR Congress, Joana Vicente presented the findings of a survey which set out to identify the levels of invalidation and lack of understanding felt by adults with RMDs from health profes… [+3974 chars]
June 3rd 2022 The search for a fountain of youth has haunted humans since the beginning of time. Now, researchers from Stanford University reported in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature1, that older m… [+435 chars]
Genetic analysis has suggested that there are two distinct strains of monkeypox in the United States, public health officials said, raising the possibility that cases may have previously gone under t… [+2515 chars]
In work presented at the 2022 EULAR Congress, Dr. Jens Kristian Pedersen and colleagues used data from the DANBIO registry to describe the all-cause mortality risk associated with depression in patie… [+2718 chars]
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia; if we are to alleviate its impact, we need to understand as much as possible about how it gets started and the effects it has on brain cells … [+3256 chars]
