Cases of norovirus—a common viral stomach illness—tend to occur in the U.S. between November and April. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been at least 13 cruise ship outbreaks so ...
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An estimated 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, a number that's expected to rise as the global population ages. To find treatments that can slow or stop the disease, scientists need to better understand the factors ...
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A team of researchers modeled the health and economic effects of healthy food prescriptions in Medicare and Medicaid. The study, published today in PLOS Medicine, finds that health insurance coverage to offset the cost of ...
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Are you diligently exercising but seeing no results around your midsection? It's not just you.
Feb 1, 2013
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Neuroscientists at Tufts University School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine, have discovered a new molecular mechanism that is essential for maturation of brain function ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Scientists at Tufts University have identified a molecular mechanism that could reverse the genetic defect responsible for Friedreich's ataxia, a neurodegenerative disease that leaves its victims with difficulty walking, ...
Jan 6, 2020
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Changing the natural electrical signaling that exists in cells outside the nervous system can improve resistance to life-threatening bacterial infections, according to new research from Tufts University biologists. The researchers ...
May 26, 2017
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It's hard to get away from the continuous news cycle about COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease that is spreading across the globe, and what that might mean for ourselves and our communities. The daily updates and the ...
Mar 13, 2020
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Like a lot of the patients who come to the Tufts Craniofacial Pain Center, the 30-something Ph.D. student was at her wit's end. Since high school, she'd suffered from three or four migraine headaches a year. Then she woke ...
Mar 11, 2016
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Tufts University biologists have discovered the bioelectric mechanism by which the rare genetic disorder Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS) causes facial abnormalities, a finding that could lead to preventive measures and treatments ...
Feb 10, 2016
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