Ongoing worldwide research of diverse populations by an international team of scientists, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has shed important new light on how genes contribute to type ...
May 12, 2022
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UVA Health researchers and their collaborators have developed a better way to predict the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive, potentially deadly form of lung inflammation, for people of non-European ...
May 3, 2022
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Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much little sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say researchers from the University ...
Apr 28, 2022
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Some Latino children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were more likely to experience relapse than non-Hispanic white children, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, held April 8-13. ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Movement disorders include a range of conditions affecting the nervous system, with more rare disorders increasingly found to be caused by genetic mutations.
Mar 8, 2022
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The antiviral drug molnupiravir is conditionally recommended for patients with non-severe COVID-19 who are at highest risk of hospitalization, says a WHO Guideline Development Group of international experts in The BMJ today.
Mar 2, 2022
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About two years into the pandemic, we're still trying to find where and how it all started. Only last week, we heard bats in Laos may hold a clue about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.
Feb 25, 2022
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Researchers are beginning to discover how your genes, medical conditions, and environment affect your chances of getting Alzheimer's disease.
Feb 17, 2022
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Disease and health are the result of a complex interaction between humans and their pathogens. Genetic factors that partly determine host defenses sometimes differ significantly between people and populations. This is shown ...
Feb 14, 2022
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A group of researchers at Qatar Foundation led by Dr. Lotfi Chouchane from Weill Cornell Medicine—Qatar (WCM-Q) have reported the first landscape of cancer germline variation in the Middle East that has been published online ...
Feb 10, 2022
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