Genetics

Being a vegetarian may be partly in your genes

From Impossible Burger to "Meatless Mondays," going meat-free is certainly in vogue. But a person's genetic makeup plays a role in determining whether they can stick to a strict vegetarian diet, a Northwestern Medicine study ...

Medications

Developing the first drug for a deadly bone disease

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved palovarotene (Sohonos) as the first treatment for fibrodysplasia ossifcans progressiva (FOP), a severely disabling condition that causes abnormal bone formation ...

Medical economics

Caregiving a concern as Hispanic community in U.S. ages faster

Caregiving has been part of MarĂ­a Aranda's life since she was a young girl, when her Puerto Rican grandmother and namesake lived with her family in the Los Angeles area. She remembers watching her mother and other family ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Report: Combining public health measures kept us safe from COVID-19

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), when applied in packages that combine a number of measures with complementary effects, were unequivocally effective in reducing the spread of infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Genetics

Novel therapeutic approach against severe COVID-19 in males

Retrospective analyses of epidemiologic data have repeatedly shown that COVID-19 mortality is higher in males compared to females. However, the underlying factors mediating sex-specific disease outcome were largely unknown.

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