Many of the most common causes of death are due to diseases whose onset could be significantly slowed down or whose prognosis could be improved by identifying with increasing accuracy individuals at high risk. In the current ...
Apr 14, 2020
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Social distancing and washing hands have become the frontline in the fight against COVID-19, but there is another powerfully protective resource immediately available to all: your circadian rhythm.
Apr 10, 2020
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As the new coronavirus continues to spread, so do anxieties about COVID-19, the illness it causes.
Mar 24, 2020
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The Indian Health Service (IHS), a division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, needs technology improvements to enhance healthcare for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, according to a Health Affairs ...
Feb 3, 2020
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A therapy that targets the immune system showed promise for treating atopic dermatitis—the most common form of eczema—in a small proof-of-concept trial, led by scientists from the Medical Research Council Human Immunology ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Human Ebola epidemics, like the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are known to start from a contact with wildlife infected with Ebola virus. In the early 2000s a series of such outbreaks in Central Africa ...
Aug 28, 2019
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When governments and institutions deploy epidemic forecast models when facing an outbreak, they sometimes fail to factor in human behavior and over-allocate precious resources as a result. Thanks to new research authored ...
Jul 2, 2019
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Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say that new experiments with mouse eye tissues strongly suggest that a longstanding "textbook concept" about the way a mammal's retina processes light needs a rewrite.
May 16, 2019
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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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A recent study from Uppsala University has found that genetic factors influence whether people store fat around the trunk or in other parts of your body, and that this effect is predominant in women and much lower in men. ...
Jan 21, 2019
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