Neuroscience

How the brain controls blood flow during sleep

Even while we are asleep, the brain does not rest completely. Surprisingly, the blood flow in a sleeping brain can be greater than when it is in a wakeful state. This allows the brain to remove waste metabolites, which is ...

Health

How commercial actors influence and impact health and society

Commercial actors can contribute positively to health and society, and many do, providing essential products and services. However, some of these actors are escalating avoidable levels of ill health, damage to the planet, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Dual HIV-syphilis rapid test approved for use in Canada

Federal regulators have approved the licensure of an all-in-one rapid device that allows Canadians to simultaneously be tested for HIV and syphilis. Canada is the first country to approve and implement a dual-target device ...

Health

Medicaid agreement in North Carolina closes in on passage

The details of a deal reached by North Carolina legislative Republicans to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults received overwhelming initial approval from the state Senate on Tuesday.

Health

Conservative Texas judge weighs challenge to abortion pills

A conservative federal judge in Texas heard arguments Wednesday from a Christian group seeking to overturn the Food and Drug Administration's more than 2-decade-old approval of an abortion medication, in a case that could ...

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