Health
Can kimchi really help you lose weight? Hold your pickle. The evidence isn't looking great
Fermented foods have become popular in recent years, partly due to their perceived health benefits.
Feb 8, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Can an experimental cell phone app screen coughs for TB? Scientists say 'yes'
What telltale features—many inaudible to the human ear—separate one kind of cough from another? Scientists are on the verge of finding out with a new machine learning tool aimed at identifying the signature sounds of ...
Vaccination
Vaccine effectiveness: Which COVID-19 shots are most protective against severe disease?
First boosters, second boosters, monovalent, bivalent. Just like the SARS-CoV-2 virus strain, the vaccines to combat the virus are always changing—and perhaps confusing.
Feb 2, 2024
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Health
Pedestrian injuries from falls versus motor vehicle collisions: Are we lacking critical policy and interventions?
Using Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have compared the national burden of pedestrian injuries from motor vehicles to that of pedestrian falls occurring ...
Jan 31, 2024
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Medical economics
New AI technique significantly boosts Medicare fraud detection
Medicare is sporadically compromised by fraudulent insurance claims. These illicit activities often go undetected, allowing full-time criminals and unscrupulous health providers to exploit weaknesses in the system. Last year, ...
Jan 31, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study looks at cardiovascular risks in COVID-19 survivors
The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic caused as a result of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus marked a global health crisis with over 770 million cases of infection and 6 million deaths by September 6, 2023. Around ...
Jan 11, 2024
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Biomedical technology
Aided by AI, new catheter design helps prevent bacterial infections
Bacteria are remarkably good swimmers—a trait that can be detrimental to human health. One of the most common bacterial infections in a health care setting comes from bacteria entering the body through catheters, thin tubes ...
Jan 5, 2024
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Dentistry
Just add milk: Choosing beverages wisely during chlorhexidine treatment
Antiseptic mouth rinses containing the active ingredient chlorhexidine (CHX) are widely used in dentistry. For many decades, CHX has set the gold standard for the management of oral diseases. During the treatment, however, ...
Jan 2, 2024
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Addiction
Brisk walks found to support smoking cessation
Good news for anyone who wants to quit smoking in the new year: In a recently published study, Innsbruck scientists show that ten-minute brisk walking sessions reduce the cravings of temporarily abstinent smokers and improve ...
Dec 27, 2023
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Medical research
Structures of Parkinson's disease-linked proteins offer a framework for understanding how they work together
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed the complex structure of two Parkinson's disease-related proteins, both of which are implicated in late-onset cases. Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is ...
Dec 21, 2023
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