What makes the COVID-19 pandemic so difficult to contain? Silent transmission by asymptomatic patients is partly responsible, but research emerging from Germany suggests the SARS-CoV-2 virus has developed a second impressive ...
Apr 20, 2020
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A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)— developed system for determining which patients with severe strokes are most likely to benefit from catheter-based systems for blood clot removal led to a greater percentage of screened ...
Nov 6, 2015
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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most common form of neurodegenerative disease in childhood, is caused by defects in the SMN1 gene. SMA patients potentially benefit from three recently approved disease-modifying therapies. ...
Nov 7, 2022
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A study that included more than 45,000 residents of Sweden with rheumatoid arthritis finds that individuals with this disease had an associated higher risk of venous thromboembolism (a blood clot that forms within a vein), ...
Oct 2, 2012
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(HealthDay)—Consuming soy products doesn't prevent hot flashes and night sweats in most women, a large study suggests.
Nov 22, 2012
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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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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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(HealthDay)—Contact tracing can reduce the time to case isolation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), according to a study published online April 27 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
May 1, 2020
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Most people think of dementia as something that affects a person's brain. But a new study shows just how much damage it does to a person's wallet and bank account too—as well as the higher demands it places on their family ...
Oct 16, 2023
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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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