In March of 2020, Shelli Farhadian, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and neurology, began to see parallels in her pre-pandemic research on neurologic effects in patients with HIV infection ...
Feb 19, 2021
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The risk of infection of COVID-19 is high for medical specialists who come in contact with symptomatic or asymptomatic patients. Dentists and otolaryngologists are at particular risk, since they need direct access to the ...
Jan 12, 2021
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A novel form of an Alzheimer's protein found in the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord indicates what stage of the disease a person is in, and tracks with tangles of tau protein in the brain, according to a study ...
Dec 7, 2020
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Decades before the first symptoms of Alzheimer's appear, the brain's neurons start secreting tau proteins, one of the first changes known to occur in the course of the disease.
Nov 25, 2020
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Using an array of tiny needles that are almost too small to see, researchers have developed a minimally-invasive technique for sampling a largely-unexplored human bodily fluid that could potentially provide a new source of ...
Nov 25, 2020
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A staggering 3 million deaths occur every year as result from harmful use of alcohol, according to the World Health Organization.
Nov 12, 2020
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A team of researchers from the University of California San Francisco, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has found that it is possible to use metagenomic sequencing to quickly identify pathogens ...
Testing for malaria could become as simple as putting on a bandage.
Nov 2, 2020
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A team of scientists at Texas A&M University, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have developed a way to more accurately both detect and monitor a common type of pediatric brain cancer, setting the stage ...
Oct 21, 2020
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Wear a mask, keep your distance, avoid crowds—these are the common recommendations to contain the COVID-19 epidemic. However, the scientific foundations on which these recommendations are based are decades old and no longer ...
Oct 20, 2020
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