A somewhat sludgy crystal ball This is exactly what happened with the Omicron variant in November, when scientists at the SAMRC and NICD picked up that something was afloat. In the last week of Oc… [+4496 chars]
Mechanical engineering professor Anna Tarakanova listens during the 2020 Women in STEM Frontiers in Research Expo, which she co-organized. Contributed photo. Anna Tarakanova has long had an interest… [+3228 chars]
It has been more than two years since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout that time, for some people, the infections became more frequent and hit closer to home. Their friends contr… [+5338 chars]
According to online health store King Online, collagen is one of their most popular products sold on their platform. Collagen is not a new discovery at all, and has been around for a while now, but … [+2238 chars]
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, scientists at nference Labs investigated the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) new variant of concern (… [+7669 chars]
Declines in vision impairment among people with diabetes appear to have plateaued, according to 20-year CDC data, and there's now even a hint of an increase in more recent years. Over the two-decade… [+2786 chars]
General anaesthesia has been around for more than a century, and is very safe overall, even for patients who have significant health conditions. Although some people may think of it as simply falli… [+443 chars]
Sleep-related hypoxemia is a better indicator of atrial fibrillation (AF) risk than the commonly-used apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), new research suggests. "Our findings suggest the importance of looki… [+4176 chars]
If you are trying to lose weight quickly, you're probably resorting to more "dramatic" ways to help you lose weight. And unfortunately, most may actually sabotage your weight loss goals long-termand … [+2701 chars]
In findings published in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, the COMBAT CF trial found azithromycina commonly prescribed broad-spectrum antibioticwhen used as a preventive therapy helped red… [+5186 chars]
A new study provides a better understanding of how the pandemic virus causes depression, anxiety, and the loss of concentration known as brain fog in patients that develop long COVID. In most indivi… [+6373 chars]
What Is Hypoglycemia? Hypoglycemia is a state in which your body’s blood glucose (also known as blood sugar) falls to a critically low level. It is most often experienced by people with diabetes, bu… [+8421 chars]
