Meningococcal disease on the rise in the US A rise in invasive serogroup Y meningococcal disease has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a health advisory for health care providers. Apr 12, 2024 0 1
Wearable sensors for Parkinson's can improve with machine learning, data from healthy adults Low-cost, wearable sensors could increase access to care for patients with Parkinson's disease. New machine-learning approaches and a baseline of data from healthy older adults improve the accuracy of the results from such ... Apr 12, 2024 0 0
New insights on B cells: Researchers explore building better antibodies and curbing autoimmune diseases Four new studies led by Harvard Medical School researchers at Boston Children's Hospital reveal details about how B cells in the immune system churn out antibodies that become increasingly potent and specific after we're ... Apr 12, 2024 0 36
Grieving pet owners comforted by 'supernatural' interactions Less than a week after her golden retriever Riley died, information studies Professor Jen Golbeck found him napping in her living room, "curled up like a croissant like he always was," on his red and gray-fleece dog bed. Apr 12, 2024 0 69
Study shows AI improves accuracy of skin cancer diagnoses A new study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine finds that computer algorithms powered by artificial intelligence based on deep learning can help health care practitioners to diagnose skin cancers more accurately. Even ... Apr 12, 2024 0 21
Cell's 'garbage disposal' may have another role: Helping neurons near skin sense the environment The typical job of the proteasome, the garbage disposal of the cell, is to grind down proteins into smaller bits and recycle some of those bits and parts. That's still the case, for the most part, but, Johns Hopkins Medicine ... Apr 12, 2024 0 67
Chlamydia vaccine shows promise in early trial A chlamydia vaccine has triggered immune responses in an early trial, raising hopes that one day it might help curb the spread of the sexually transmitted infection (STI). Apr 12, 2024 0 60
Midwives can play a role in supporting pregnant women to reduce drug use Midwives are in a prime position to help support pregnant women to stop or cut down on alcohol and other drug use and to improve outcomes for the women and their children. Apr 12, 2024 0 0
Researchers find no link between COVID-19 virus and development of asthma in children In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many families worried about the long-term effects posed by the SARS-COV-2 virus. Now, researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that a SARS-COV-2 infection likely ... Apr 12, 2024 0 1
New treatment could be advance against cervical precancers Women who undergo regular Pap smears are no doubt familiar with the possibility of "precancerous" cells being detected. Apr 12, 2024 0 0