Neurons communicate with each other via electrical impulses, which are produced by ion channels that control the flow of ions such as potassium and sodium. In a surprising new finding, MIT neuroscientists have shown that ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Academics and data scientists from Durham University and UN Global Pulse (UNGP) have developed an agent-based model to simulate the spread of COVID-19 in the Cox's Bazar refugee settlement in Bangladesh.
Oct 28, 2021
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Women are being encouraged to get their annual breast cancer screening and for good reason. Screening can save lives.
Oct 21, 2021
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Despite high volumes of SARS-CoV-2 tests and the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, and increased use of electronic health records, little is known about whether the data in those records can predict SARS-CoV-2 test positivity.
Oct 20, 2021
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During the "first wave" of COVID-19 in the United States, Rajan Chakrabarty, the Harold D. Jolley Career Development Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, learned that African Americans made up 47% of ...
Oct 20, 2021
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More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine with the expectation that the vaccines slow virus transmission and save lives.
Oct 15, 2021
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Combining data on antibody prevalence, PCR test results, genomic surveillance and population mobility from smartphones has allowed infectious disease modelers to explain the evolution of the first three COVID-19 waves that ...
Oct 12, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Premenopausal women with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have systemic bone fragility at peripheral sites, according to a study published online Aug. 30 in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
Sep 29, 2021
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Hypercholesterolemia is a metabolic disorder commonly found in people with obesity. It has been reported as a risk factor in the development of the cancers derived from steroid-targeted tissues, such as breast and prostate ...
Sep 29, 2021
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Major weight loss appears to reverse most of the cardiovascular risks linked with obesity, according to a cross-sectional analysis of the US adult population being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association ...
Sep 28, 2021
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