During 2012 to 2021, 251 cases of soft tick relapsing fever (STRF), caused by certain Borrelia spirochetes and transmitted to humans by soft-bodied Ornithodoros ticks, were reported in 11 states, according to research published ...
Jul 21, 2023
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The way the brain regulates pupil size is different from previously thought: fundamentally responsible is the neurotransmitter orexin, as researchers at ETH Zurich have now shown. This discovery could well alter our understanding ...
Jul 13, 2023
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In a world-first clinical trial published in the journal Nature Medicine, a multi-center study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Jewish General Hospital ...
Jul 7, 2023
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EPFL scientists have developed ClearTau, an innovative method and platform for reconstructing aggregates of the protein Tau found in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The breakthrough may speed up ...
Jul 4, 2023
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In a significant step forward in neurotechnology, companies that make implantable brain-computer interfacing (BCI) devices, such as Neuralink, have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct ...
Jun 29, 2023
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Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news.
Jun 28, 2023
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Nearly half of parents who relied on formula to feed their babies during the infant formula shortage last year resorted to potentially harmful feeding methods, according to a survey from researchers at the University of California, ...
Jun 27, 2023
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can identify sperm in severely infertile men in seconds compared to the hours it takes scientists, according to results presented at the 39th annual meeting of the European Society ...
Jun 27, 2023
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Medical science has made tremendous advancements over the past 70 years. One of these is the transplant of human organs from one person to another. The first transplant—a kidney—was in the US in 1954.
Jun 23, 2023
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In a recent experiment published in JAMA, physician-researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) tested one well-known publicly available chatbot's ability to make accurate diagnoses in challenging medical ...
Jun 15, 2023
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