Oncology & Cancer
Colorectal cancer 'not an old people's disease anymore'
There are two statistics that Dr. Rachel Issaka would like people to seriously consider:
Mar 13, 2024
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Medical research
Mouse study finds birth coincides with rapid changes in gene activity
During its gestation, the house mouse starts out as a single fertilized cell and three weeks later is ready to enter the world as a free-living pup composed of more than 500 million cells.
Feb 15, 2024
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Health informatics
Machine learning promises to accelerate metabolism research
A new study shows that it is possible to use machine learning and statistics to address a problem that has long hindered the field of metabolomics: large variations in the data collected at different sites.
Feb 12, 2024
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Health
Study: Pregnant women should avoid ultraprocessed, fast foods
If you're pregnant, you may want to think twice before making a hamburger run or reaching for a prepackaged pastry, according to research published last month in the journal Environmental International.
Feb 7, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study finds BIPOC individuals bear greater post-COVID burdens
A study appearing in Frontiers in Public Health reports that BIPOC individuals who were infected with COVID-19 experienced greater negative aftereffects in health and work loss than did similarly infected white participants.
Jan 31, 2024
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Immunology
When and how immune cells form 'memories' of pathogen encounters and respond upon reinfection
Unexpected findings have emerged about how and when certain infection-killing white blood cells decide to form memories about their encounters with a pathogen.
Jan 31, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Classifying the natural history of asymptomatic malaria
Detecting malaria in people who aren't experiencing symptoms is vital to public health efforts to better control this tropical disease in places where the mosquito-borne parasite is common. Asymptomatic people harboring the ...
Jan 4, 2024
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Medical research
Significant benefit seen in Phase III trial of experimental drug for kidney disease
In a clinical trial of patients with chronic kidney disease, an experimental drug significantly reduced albuminuria—albumin in urine, a sign of kidney damage—for 50% of participants. When the experimental drug was paired ...
Dec 15, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A (brief) surprise in study of alcohol, caffeine and sleep
The first known study to look at the combined real-world effects of alcohol and caffeine on nightly sleep quality and quantity came up with an unexpected finding—at first.
Nov 9, 2023
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Cardiology
Not all overdose-related cardiac arrests are the same, says study
The incidence of overdose-related cardiac arrests more than doubled in King County, Washington, from 2015 to 2021, with the biggest increase among people who had consumed opioids combined with stimulants, according to a new ...
Nov 7, 2023
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