BOSTON — Dr. Jeffrey Karp is an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Womens Hospital but recently he became a patient. Karp, at the urging of his wife, finally went in for a routine dermatology check-up.… [+4254 chars]
Researchers published the study covered in this summary on researchsquare.com as a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways <ul><li>Patients without known diabetes who had a rand… [+5642 chars]
PHILADELPHIA — A “shapeshifting robotic microswarm” of nanobots could be in your future for flossing and brushing your teeth! Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania say their microscopic den… [+4264 chars]
Tension-type headaches are one of the most common types of headaches, and people who have a lot of these headaches may be looking for alternatives to medication, study author Ying Li, MD, PhD, of Che… [+1973 chars]
That includes preventing 154,000 deaths among people 65 or older, 66,000 deaths among people 50 to 64, and 14,000 deaths among those 18 to 49, estimates showed. "COVID-19 vaccination potentially red… [+2024 chars]
Heidi Crayton, MD: We have a lot of data with our newer products and our not-quite-as-new products. In terms of efficacy with patients that started off on an injectable-platform therapy and then swit… [+2131 chars]
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, On COVID-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30% over the past two weeks. Four out of six of the WHO sub-regions saw cases increase in t… [+5996 chars]
Editor's note: Stephen Ogweno is Founder and CEO of Stowelink Inc., and recently launched a mobile app, NCDs 365, to provide information about noncommunicable diseases. The article reflects the autho… [+5569 chars]
A health-pass programme in France sparked weeks of angry protest last year.Credit: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty For four weekends across July and August last year, around 200,000 protesters took to the… [+20290 chars]
The human genome is littered with "selfish genetic elements," which do not seem to benefit their hosts, but instead seek only to propagate themselves.Selfish genetic elements can wreak havoc by, for … [+3647 chars]
Eating one avocado a day for six months was found to have no effect on belly fat, liver fat or waist circumference in people with overweight or obesity, according to a new study. Still, it did lead t… [+942 chars]
Treatment of the various types of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) with approved therapies results in an array of improvements, according to a review of 22 studies that assessed mid- and long-term (at l… [+1635 chars]