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Pediatrics

Getting your child ready for spring sports

Spring sports season will be here soon, so it's time to get kids ready after a winter break.

Feb 20, 2023

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Tobacco and e-cigs may put healthy young people at risk of severe COVID illness, new research suggests

New UCLA research suggests that smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase healthy young people's risk for developing severe COVID illness.

Feb 9, 2023

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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Harmful effects of long-term alcohol use documented in blood protein snapshot

Biochemist Jon Jacobs has analyzed the blood of patients with diseases and conditions such as Ebola, cancer, tuberculosis, hepatitis, diabetes, Lyme disease, brain injury and influenza.

Feb 9, 2023

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Diabetes

Do you need an insulin-resistance diet?

People with health conditions like type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes or polycystic ovarian syndrome may have been advised about the value of an insulin-resistance diet.

Feb 3, 2023

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Immunology

How regulatory T cells halt aberrant, self-reactive T cells

New research findings show in detail how self-reactive T cells—white blood cells that mistakenly attack healthy instead of infected cells, thereby causing an autoimmune or an inflammatory response—are held in check by ...

Jan 24, 2023

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Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Alzheimer's: Blood biomarker may help identify the disease ten years before symptoms start

Though Alzheimer's disease affects more than 55 million people worldwide, there's still no cure for the condition—and treatment options are limited.

Jan 19, 2023

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Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Scientists developing early Alzheimer's disease detection sensor

Researchers with the SFU Nanodevice Fabrication Group are developing a new biosensor that can be used to screen for Alzheimer's disease and other diseases. An overview of their work has been recently published in the journal ...

Jan 18, 2023

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Medications

Controlled, localized delivery of blood thinner may improve blood clot treatment

Heparin has long been used as a blood thinner, or anticoagulant, for patients with blood clotting disorders or after surgery to prevent complications. But the medication remains difficult to dose correctly, potentially leading ...

Jan 6, 2023

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Obstetrics & gynaecology

Researchers Identify blood panel to predict placenta accreta

Of the nearly 4 million births each year in the United States, roughly 50,000 are marked by life-threatening complications, and up to 900 result in maternal death during delivery. One major, often life-threatening complication ...

Jan 5, 2023

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