In the Americas, more than 96% of cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL)—the most severe form of leishmaniasis— occur in Brazil, where the fatality rate has risen in recent years. Now, researchers report in PLOS Neglected ...
Dec 19, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Most patients with electronic cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) reported use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing products in the three months preceding symptom onset, according ...
Oct 30, 2019
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One of the biggest difficulties in treating Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is the understanding of when it starts. Now, a study published in Communications Biology by researchers at the Federal ...
Oct 11, 2019
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A team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have created a mobile application, which helps recognise early symptoms of rare Huntington's disease. Designed in cooperation with physicians and the ...
May 21, 2019
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Patients with closer-knit social networks, including family members and spouses, were more likely to delay seeking hospital care for a stroke whereas those with a more dispersed network of acquaintances were more likely to ...
Mar 25, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Young adults are increasingly developing colon cancer—and it's often diagnosed at a late stage, after they've seen several doctors and been misdiagnosed, a new survey shows.
Feb 28, 2019
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A research group headed by Professor Outi Mäkitie, University of Helsinki, identified in families with childhood-onset osteoporosis disease-causing mutations in a gene that had previously not been connected with the skeletal ...
Feb 25, 2019
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Researchers from the Cognition and Brain Plasticity research group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the University of Barcelona (UB), in collaboration with several hospitals, have discovered that ...
Dec 13, 2018
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects one in ten Australians, and twice as many women as men. Its symptoms include chronic abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhoea, and bloating. These have a significant ...
Nov 29, 2018
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Jose Belardo of Lansing, Kan., spent most of his career in the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked on the front lines of disasters in such places as Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. At home with his ...
Aug 1, 2018
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