When a person suffers from two or more long-term health conditions at the same time this is known as multimorbidity.
Feb 11, 2025
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Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to a new study from National ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies should be breastfed within an hour of birth, be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, ...
Feb 9, 2025
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A new study has demonstrated that a combination of conditional cash transfers and TB counseling significantly improves treatment success rates and reduces loss to follow-up among TB patients in South Africa.
Feb 7, 2025
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When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns one infectious disease expert.
Feb 6, 2025
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A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with HIV has unearthed diagnosis "blank spots" in Africa, according to research published today in The ...
Jan 30, 2025
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Researchers have uncovered a link between COVID-19 and blood markers linked to faulty proteins in the brain. The analysis, led by researchers at Imperial College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute, found that people ...
Jan 30, 2025
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Researchers at the University of Queensland have identified the first henipavirus in North America. Dr. Rhys Parry from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said Camp Hill virus was confirmed in shrews in the ...
Jan 29, 2025
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In 1991, U.S. sociologist Scott Feld wrote, "Your friends have more friends than you do." Feld's so-called friendship paradox states that the friends of any given person have more friends on average than the person themselves. ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Engineering and medical researchers at Penn have developed a framework that can determine the best and most computationally optimized distribution strategy for COVID-19 vaccinations in any given community.
Jan 22, 2025
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