Oncology & Cancer
Study finds African Americans with cancer at higher risk for blood clots
African-Americans are at higher risk for cancer-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE) as compared with patients from other races.
Dec 16, 2019
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Medical research
Novel treatments offer new hope for patients with autoimmune disease
Autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, arise when the body's immune cells attack itself. Current treatments eliminate these misfunctioning immune cells, but also destroy normal, protective ...
Mar 4, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New estimates of excess mortality from COVID-19 suggest stronger suppression measures needed
A mitigation strategy aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus could lead to at least 35,000-70,000 excess deaths over one year, find researchers from UCL, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University ...
Mar 24, 2020
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Genetics
Researchers suggest that human aging is the end-product of our developmental program
A new study published in Genome Biology has challenged the traditional view that aging is a result of the accumulation of damage to the body's hardware, such as the molecular damage to cells caused by oxidative stress. Instead, ...
Mar 28, 2023
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Diabetes
Researchers create new model to better understand, treat metabolic diseases
While it has been more than 100 years since the discovery of insulin, metabolic diseases like diabetes, obesity and fatty liver continue to impact most of the population. More than one-third (36.5 percent) of adults in the ...
Jun 21, 2022
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Health
Menthol ban would save 650,000 lives in the next 40 years
Banning menthol flavors in cigarettes could reduce smoking by 15% by having smokers giving up tobacco products altogether or switching to e-cigarettes and other nicotine vaping products—avoiding 16,250 tobacco-related deaths ...
Sep 3, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
When COVID-19 superspreaders are talking, where you sit in the room matters
It doesn't take long for airborne coronavirus particles to make their way through a room. At first, only people sitting near an infected speaker are at high risk, but as the meeting or class goes on, the tiny aerosols can ...
Oct 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infectious disease model shows impact of COVID-19 mitigation efforts in Virginia
Governor Ralph Northam, in partnership with researchers from the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute and the nonprofit RAND Corporation, released new infectious disease modeling on the impact of COVID-19 mitigations ...
Apr 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists develop interactive disease models to predict spread of COVID-19 across Arizona
Joe Mihaljevic, a mathematical epidemiologist and assistant professor in Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), is leading a new project to create computer modeling systems ...
May 4, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Explore or exploit: How our brains make choices
People make countless choices every day. It may be a difficult, complex choice—whether to take the job in a new city or stay in a current position—or be as simple as choosing between visiting a new restaurant or going ...
Apr 20, 2022
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