Sleep may be one of the most potent medicines for the brain, scientists are discovering, as they explore the inner labyrinths of the three-pound organ during deep sleep and dream cycles in both health and disease.
Certain brain wave patterns that occur while an individual sleeps may be assessed by clinicians to help them diagnose dementia and other conditions related to memory, language, and thinking. A new study published in Sleep ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Coronavirus concentrations in Gothenburg wastewater are continuing to rise from an already high level, University of Gothenburg researchers have found. The current figures are well above the peak noted during the third wave ...
Jan 10, 2022
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India began a COVID-19 booster shot campaign for frontline workers and vulnerable people aged 60 and above on Monday as authorities grapple with a rapidly escalating outbreak driven by the Omicron variant.
Jan 10, 2022
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Haunted by the spectre of last year's crisis, India is bracing for a deluge of COVID-19 cases, with authorities of various megacities bringing in restrictions in a bid to keep infections in check.
Jan 7, 2022
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(HealthDay)—In South Africa, the pattern of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 early in the fourth wave showed fewer hospitalizations and reduced severity of illness compared with earlier waves, according to a research ...
Jan 3, 2022
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Researchers at the Government of Tamil Nadu, CDDEP, University of California Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins recently published 'All-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chennai, India: an observational study' in Lancet ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Pancreatic cancer, aside from being notoriously undetectable in its early stages, is also hard to eradicate after it's discovered.
Dec 17, 2021
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A team of researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center, in Israel, working with a colleague from Canada, has found that babies are more likely to accept an unfamiliar woman when the odor of their mother is present. In their ...
Earlier this year, thin-film microgrid arrays developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and used in neurologist Jon Kleen's patients at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) showed that hippocampal ...
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