Handbasins are hotspots for dangerous microbes that can cause illnesses including pneumonia, Legionnaires' disease and wound infections, a new study from Flinders University warns.
Aug 13, 2024
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Respiratory infections can be severe—even deadly—in some individuals, but not in others. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and other collaborators ...
Aug 12, 2024
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Women whose fallopian tubes are removed during sterilization via laparoscopy have only marginally more surgical complications than those whose tubes are simply cut, a study shows. The removal, salpingectomy, is a safe procedure ...
Aug 12, 2024
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A worrying new study by the American Cancer Society has revealed that generation X and millennials are at more risk of developing many types of cancer than their predecessors. This is in line with a growing body of evidence ...
Aug 11, 2024
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Google searches for "NSW scabies outbreak" have spiked over recent days in light of an outbreak of the contagious skin condition in New South Wales.
Aug 11, 2024
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A saliva test can more accurately indicate the severity of recurrent respiratory infections in children than the standard blood test. If saliva contains too few broadly protective antibodies, a child is more likely to suffer ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Using zebrafish "avatars," an animal model developed by the Cancer Development and Innate Immune Evasion lab at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), led by Rita Fior, Mayra Martínez-López—a former Ph.D. student at the lab ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have discovered a treatment which accelerates the production and quality of pluripotent stem cells in mice. The discovery has the potential to improve disease modeling ...
Aug 7, 2024
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A 66-year-old Texas man died of an infection caused by a flesh-eating bacteria he contracted while fishing along the Gulf Coast.
Aug 7, 2024
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Family members of patients recently discharged from the hospital may have a higher risk of getting an antibiotic-resistant infection, often called a superbug, even if the patient was not diagnosed with the same infection, ...
Aug 7, 2024
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