Archive: 14/12/2017

Valley fever cases see major spike in November

Valley fever cases in November saw a 50-percent spike over the previous month, leading experts at the University of Arizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence to predict a significant increase in cases in 2018.

Dec 14, 2017

All politics—and cannabis marketing—are local

California's legal cannabis market, opening for business on Jan. 1, is expected to quickly grow to be the largest in the nation and worth more than $5 billion a year.

Dec 14, 2017

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Study suggests social workers lack tools to identify potential chronic child neglect

Neglect accounts for more than 75 percent of all child protection cases in the United States, yet, despite this alarming frequency, child welfare workers lack effective assessment tools for identifying the associated risk ...

Dec 14, 2017

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High success rate reported for diabetic Charcot foot surgery

Nearly four out of five diabetic patients with severe cases of a disabling condition called Charcot foot were able to walk normally again following surgery, a Loyola Medicine study has found.

Dec 14, 2017

Active surveillance of low-risk PMC of the thyroid proposed as first-line management

A 10-year study of more than 1,200 patients with low-risk papillary microcarcinoma (PMC) of the thyroid led researchers to conclude that close and continuous monitoring is an acceptable first-line approach to patient management ...

Dec 14, 2017

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Little understood cell helps mice see color

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that color vision in mice is far more complex than originally thought, opening the door to experiments that could potentially lead to new treatments ...

Dec 14, 2017

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One in five patients report discrimination in health care

Almost one in five older patients with a chronic disease reported experiencing health care discrimination of one type or another in a large national survey that asked about their daily experiences of discrimination between ...

Dec 14, 2017

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Critical toxic species behind Parkinson's disease is glimpsed at work for the first time

Researchers have glimpsed how the toxic protein clusters that are associated with Parkinson's Disease disrupt the membranes of healthy brain cells, creating defects in the cell walls and eventually causing a series of events ...

Dec 14, 2017

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Researchers develop mouse model to study Pteroptine ortheovirus

In the past decade, the first cases of respiratory tract infection caused by bat-borne Pteropine ortheovirus (PRV) have been reporting in humans. To help shed light on the clinical course of PRV infection, researchers reporting ...

Dec 14, 2017

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More than 200 people sickened onboard Ovation of Seas cruise

More than 200 people became sick and five were hospitalized in Australia after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness aboard a cruise ship earlier this month.

Dec 14, 2017

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Archive: 14/12/2017

Valley fever cases see major spike in November

All politics—and cannabis marketing—are local

Study suggests social workers lack tools to identify potential chronic child neglect

High success rate reported for diabetic Charcot foot surgery

Active surveillance of low-risk PMC of the thyroid proposed as first-line management

Little understood cell helps mice see color

One in five patients report discrimination in health care

Critical toxic species behind Parkinson's disease is glimpsed at work for the first time

Researchers develop mouse model to study Pteroptine ortheovirus

More than 200 people sickened onboard Ovation of Seas cruise

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