Tucked into the temporal lobe, near the base of our brain, sits a small, almond-shaped region called the amygdala that processes our emotions. Neuroscientists at Tufts University have been investigat… [+4520 chars]
image: COVID-19 stock imageview more Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA — (July 7, 2022) — Under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Joint Program Executive Office for C… [+6296 chars]
Prostate cancer can come back from common hormone deprivation therapy with a vengeance and no clear treatment option, but scientists have early evidence that one way to kill these recurring cancer ce… [+5860 chars]
Recently, a middle aged man was hospitalized following an overdose of vitamin D or hypervitaminosis D. As per a news report, the patient showed symptoms for three months. He had taken doses of more t… [+518 chars]
A newly published phase-3 study for the drug sabizabulin, initially developed to fight cancer, has shown that it cuts risk of death by about one-fourth in patients hospitalized with moderate to sever… [+4001 chars]
In a recent article published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, investigators examined the major causes of mortality across the United States (US) in the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona… [+3787 chars]
Broadcast Date: July 22, 2022Time: 8:00 am PT, 11:00 am ET, 17:00 CET The power of mRNA vaccines became well established due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are just beginning to scratch the surfa… [+992 chars]
The disease usually develops two to four weeks after a streptococcal throat infection The heart is involved in about half of the cases. Damage to the heart valves, known as rheumatic heart disease (… [+9863 chars]
Beauty is an iron mine, once remarked the Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart. She was talking about a precious resource, but iron is also profoundly important to living organisms from bacteria… [+5639 chars]
While long COVID, also known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), is a rapidly emerging health crisis across the U.S. and abroad, there is not a practical medical definition for it -- and tha… [+7898 chars]
Scientists say the discovery of a triggering enzyme in the lung tissue of people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could lead to a new treatment for the inflammatory disorder. … [+4609 chars]
HIGHLIGHTS <ul><li>Oxycodone is frequently prescribed for pain relief or anxiety.</li><li>Prenatal opioid exposure has been linked to adverse outcomes in infants, but the role of the microbiome in … [+4774 chars]
