Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Early diagnosis tool for childhood kidney disease

Early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is key to managing progression of the disease. A new technique analyzing urine extracellular vesicles (uEVs)—cell-derived nanoscale spherical structures involved in multiple ...

Neuroscience

A new environment boosts your memory (but not for everyone)

However tempting it may be, as a student, to lock yourself in your room or in favorite library nook in the days running up to an important exam, it's not a very wise choice, stresses neuroscientist Judith Schomaker.

Pediatrics

Moderna COVID vaccine safe, comparably effective in preschoolers

Two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were safe in children aged six months to five years and triggered similar immune response and protection against infection as that seen in young adults, according to preliminary results ...

Oncology & Cancer

Leukemia treatment breakthrough for babies

Babies with leukemia could get an array of new treatments after scientists used genetic engineering to reproduce a gene defect found in the disease.

Medications

Malaria treatment is saving money while saving young lives

Young children in sub-Saharan Africa often become severely anemic as consequence of a malaria infection. Treating them requires blood transfusions and they must stay hospitalized for several days. They are at a relatively ...

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