Health
Vaping illness death count surpasses 50 in US
The death toll in the vaping illness outbreak has topped 50, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
Dec 12, 2019
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Safer viruses for vaccine research and diagnosis
A new technology to produce safer 'hybrid' viruses at high volumes for use in vaccines and diagnostics for mosquito-borne diseases has been developed at The University of Queensland.
Dec 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A novel, non-invasive MRI-based functional liver imaging score (FLIS) for investigating chronic liver disease
An interdisciplinary MedUni Vienna team has shown that important information about the stage and prognosis of chronic liver diseases can be gotten by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Lying in a tube-like machine, ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Health
Vaping illnesses in US still rising, though at slower pace
The number of vaping illnesses in the U.S. is still rising, but at a slower pace.
Nov 14, 2019
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Health
Salad bars and water systems are easy targets for bioterrorists—and America's monitoring system is woefully inadequate
In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled "Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We Prepared?" The answer was a resounding no.
Nov 7, 2019
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Neuroscience
A game-changing test for Prion, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases is on the horizon
There are currently no effective treatments for prion diseases, a family of fatal neurodegenerative conditions caused by accumulations of misfolded copies of a naturally occurring protein. But now, there is finally an effective ...
Nov 6, 2019
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Researchers develop noninvasive method to detect early-stage liver disease
A safer and more sensitive contrast dye for MRI tests developed by a team led by Georgia State University researchers may provide the first effective, noninvasive method for detecting and diagnosing early-stage liver diseases, ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Resistance to last resort drug arose in patient over 3 weeks
French investigators have described development of resistance to one of the last resort therapies used to treat extremely drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. That resistance arose in a single patient over a scant 22 days. ...
Oct 21, 2019
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Medical research
How hunger makes food tastier: a neural circuit in the hypothalamus
Why does everything taste better when we're hungry? According to new findings from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan, not only does food taste sweeter when our stomachs are rumbling, but bitter food ...
Oct 17, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Report: Progress in global cancer fight is not only possible, but achievable
The Cancer Atlas, 3rd edition, a comprehensive global overview of cancer around the globe, concludes that progress in the fight against cancer is not only possible, but achievable. The report was produced by the American ...
Oct 16, 2019
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