Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's can be devastating to patients and their families. These diseases are difficult to diagnose before symptoms show, meaning it's often already too late to reverse ...
Dec 17, 2019
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Earlier this summer, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights released a report on Canada's approach to criminalizing those who don't disclose that they're living with HIV to sexual partners.
Sep 6, 2019
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The pandemic has highlighted the importance of increasing the flow of information on infectious diseases from electronic health records (EHRs) to public health agencies. Less attention has been paid to the value of EHR data ...
Mar 30, 2023
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The difference between abundant information and useful knowledge is a problem in many fields including health care, where life and death can depend on the decision to prescribe a drug or perform a surgery. A new center at ...
Mar 2, 2012
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What's the most effective way to get across a public health message: use positive wording to emphasize the benefits of certain behavior, or a negative framing that might scare people who avoid those safeguards?
Oct 11, 2022
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The journal Computers in Biology and Medicine has published an article on the new IT application BootstRatio, created by IDIBELL researchers. The application allows online statistical analysis of data from gene expression. ...
Apr 3, 2012
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Dr. Hilary Koprowski, the Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at his Philadelphia home. He was 96.
Apr 14, 2013
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Molds, and especially yeasts, were far more common in indoor daycare centers than outside of them, according to a new study. Factors such as certain building features and the number of children in a daycare influenced the ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Liver cancer is the fourth deadliest cancer in Hawaiʻi, particularly affecting Native Hawaiian, Filipino and Japanese men. Patients can develop liver failure when tumors metastasize or spread to the healthy portions of the ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Melburnians have now been wearing mandatory face coverings in public for two weeks. Yet Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday announced another grim milestone in Victoria's second wave of COVID-19 infections: 725 new cases, a ...
Aug 6, 2020
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