Genetics
Study: Neanderthal genes are a liability for COVID patients
Scientists say genes that some people have inherited from their Neanderthal ancestors may increase their likelihood of suffering severe forms of COVID-19.
Sep 30, 2020
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Health
The impact of COVID-19 on access to Parkinson's disease medication
A global survey of health professionals, led by Queen Mary University of London, has shown that during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with Parkinson's disease in large parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin and South America experienced ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the modern world was shaped by epidemics 500 years ago
The coronavirus pandemic has been compared with many previous contagions, including the great plague and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. However, there has been little consideration of probably the most significant historical ...
Sep 18, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Kids who learn 'clause-chain' languages are quicker to develop complex sentences
Languages like Japanese, Korean, Turkish and the indigenous languages of the Amazon, East Africa, and New Guinea build sentences in a way that lets them grow to enormous length.
Aug 25, 2020
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Medications
Parasite resistance to antimalarial artemisinin derivatives now affecting Africa
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of the current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is already widespread in South-East Asia, but it had not previously been described in Africa. Scientists from the Institut ...
Aug 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Where did the Asian longhorned ticks in the US come from?
Asian longhorned ticks outside the U.S. can carry debilitating diseases. In the United States and elsewhere they can threaten livestock and pets. The new study, published in the journal Zoonoses and Public Health, sheds new ...
Jul 8, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
WHO says Sri Lanka and Maldives eliminate measles, rubella
Sri Lanka and Maldives have become the first two countries in the World Health Organization's South-East Asia region to eliminate both measles and rubella ahead of a 2023 target, the U.N. health agency announced Wednesday.
Jul 8, 2020
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Genetics
New genetic markers of type 2 diabetes identified in East Asians
In the largest study of its kind in any non-European population, an international team of researchers, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has identified new genetic links with type 2 diabetes ...
May 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19: Genetic network analysis provides 'snapshot' of pandemic origins
Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early "evolutionary paths" of COVID-19 in humans—as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America—using genetic network techniques.
Apr 9, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Britain set for 66,000 COVID-19 deaths, highest toll in Europe: study
Britain could see as many as 66,000 COVID-19 deaths during the first wave of the current pandemic, new research showed Tuesday, making the outbreak there by far the deadliest in Europe.
Apr 7, 2020
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