Besides vaccines, one of the most effective weapons in the fight against COVID-19 is Paxlovid, an antiviral pill treatment combining the drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. Studies have found that Paxl… [+7758 chars]
TRURO, N.S. Looking ahead, a metal bar uses dots to track Angie Parker-Browns eye movements, allowing her to navigate the Tobii DynaVox software where she can type and have words read aloud by the co… [+4451 chars]
A new study from investigators in Canada is providing an overview of the apparent increase in risk of hospitalization observed among children born to mothers with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). A… [+4879 chars]
Health officials in Kingston say the risk to the general public is low following the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the region. The Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health unit… [+1093 chars]
Artificial intelligence is poised to play a truly transformative role in global health care. The convergence of medicine and AI might eventually prove to be more impactful than the unraveling of the … [+3906 chars]
We identified 116,529 patients who met the studys inclusion criteria. After exclusions (admissions that spanned across the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, no valid SARS-CoV-2 PCR test result in th… [+6135 chars]
WATCH TIME: 3 minutes People live with Parkinsons disease; they dont die of Parkinsons disease. Particularly in this age, now, we have so many therapeutic modalities available for patients with move… [+1435 chars]
A masked pedestrian in Australia, where people have been warned that they are at risk of catching SARS-CoV-2 again four weeks after a first coronavirus infection.Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Na… [+4095 chars]
Providence Care has declared a COVID-19 outbreak in two sections of an inpatient unit at its Providence Care Hospital after four patients tested positive for the virus. The sections, which Providenc… [+2236 chars]
WASHINGTON - Thousands more doses of monkeypox vaccine are expected to soon begin shipping to the U.S. after federal health officials said they had completed an inspection of the overseas plant whe… [+3031 chars]
Doctors recently transplanted pig hearts into two deceased patients, raising hopes that animal transplants could one day be used to save human lives. Led by Dr. Nader Moazami, a cardiac surgeon at N… [+2740 chars]
According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than six million Americans are living with the disease and by 2050 it's estimated that number will rise to 13 million. Alzheimer's is the most common ty… [+4661 chars]
