For decades, growth charts have been used by pediatricians as reference tools. The charts allow health professionals to plot and measure a child's height and weight from birth to young adulthood. The percentile scores they ...
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Back in 2015, an interdisciplinary group of research scientists made their case during a business pitch competition: They want to create a subscription-based service, much like 23andMe, through which people could send in ...
Sep 11, 2019
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The century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is one of the world's oldest and most widely used vaccines, used to immunize 100 million newborns every year. Given in countries with endemic TB, ...
May 3, 2022
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Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and the Medical University of Vienna (MedUni) have demonstrated for the first time that high doses of cholesterol-lowering statins impair bone quality in mice. The finding ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Patterns of genetic mutation in ovarian cancer are helping make sense of the disease, and could be used to personalise treatment in future.
Aug 14, 2018
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Twitter users who post information about their personal health online might be considered by some to be "over-sharers," but new research led by the University of Arizona suggests that health-related tweets may have the potential ...
Apr 15, 2015
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New research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management finds that Medicare Advantage (MA), the largest healthcare capitation program in the U.S., unintentionally incentivizes health plans to cherry-pick ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Imagine being young and healthy, a nonsmoker with no preexisting health conditions, and then waking up one morning feeling like you were being suffocated by an unseen force. Back in March, this was my reality.
Aug 11, 2020
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Communities benefit from sharing knowledge and experience among their members. Following a similar principle—called "swarm learning"—an international research team has trained artificial intelligence algorithms to detect ...
May 26, 2021
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To date, scientists have identified 32 genetic mutations associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, with BYU contributing to many of those discoveries. Finding those links is important foundational research, ...
Jun 3, 2020
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