A study of continuous monthly mortality data for more than 100 years in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain found that excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic reached greater peaks than most other periods of excess ...
Feb 1, 2022
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While COVID-19 disease significantly impacts many pregnant women, the rates of transmission from mother to baby in pregnancy are very low. A new study from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has demonstrated that ...
Jan 31, 2022
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With hundreds of millions of free rapid-result COVID-19 tests being mailed out to homes, a common question people are asking is: Am I required to report a positive result to local health authorities?
Jan 26, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the life science ecosystem, uniting the scientific community with a common purpose and reimagining pathways to address global health challenges.
Jan 24, 2022
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When cells divide, through a process called mitosis, the genetic information must be equally distributed among the new cells. That is the moment when mitotic errors can arise, potentially leading to DNA damage, including ...
Jan 20, 2022
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An international team, led by University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine researchers, has published findings that could contribute to future therapeutics for muscle degeneration due to old age, and diseases such as cancer and ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Viruses can be wily adapters, changing their identities to find new hosts and thwart efforts to stop them. That's why University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and their collaborators are making progress toward developing ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer in men worldwide, and radiotherapy is one of the common forms of treatment. In a first-of-its kind meta-analysis, published today in The Lancet Oncology, researchers from University ...
Jan 18, 2022
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An international collaboration led by Flinders University has identified a potential biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Motor Neuron Disease (MND), providing a way to test the effectiveness of ...
Jan 13, 2022
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Canada's COVID-19 vaccination rate is 76 percent—10 times higher than it is across the continent of Africa.
Dec 16, 2021
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