There is no internationally agreed standard treatment for children discharged from hospital with pneumonia. St George's researchers recently found that shorter courses of lower-dose antibiotics are just as effective as higher ...
Jun 24, 2022
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Intestinal micro-biodiversity is important for maintaining colorectal and general health. Imbalance in this microenvironment can result in chronic infections, even cancer. Development of colorectal cancer (CRC) has been alluded ...
May 10, 2022
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Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body. People with XX chromosomes typically ...
Mar 21, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Booster doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine set recipients up to effectively withstand the ravages of both the Delta and Omicron variants, a group of new studies suggest.
Dec 09, 2021
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Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer known as diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and—in lab studies working with ...
Jul 22, 2021
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With COVID-19 vaccines working and restrictions lifting across the country, it's finally time for those now vaccinated who've been hunkered down at home to ditch the sweatpants and reemerge from their Netflix caves. But your ...
Jun 29, 2021
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The United States on Wednesday announced an agreement with Merck to buy 1.7 million courses of an experimental antiviral pill against COVID-19.
Jun 09, 2021
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Plants can hurt us (we see you, poison oak), but they can also heal. Many of modern medicine's powerful drugs, like aspirin, trace their roots back to leaves, bark and flowers.
May 13, 2021
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A Wyss Institute-led collaboration spanning four research labs and hundreds of miles has used the Institute's organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of ...
May 03, 2021
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A tenth of all intensive care unit patients worldwide, and many critical patients with COVID-19, have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Therapeutic hypothermia, an intentional cooling of the body, has been suggested ...
Feb 23, 2021
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