Tag: Disease

WASHINGTON, July 5, 2022 – An optical fiber as thin as a strand of hair holds promise for use in ...

Scientists are working on diagnostic techniques that could sniff out chemical compounds from breath, sweat, tears and other bodily emissions ...

Credit: Kanon Tanaka Journal Kidney International DOI 10.1016/j.kint.2022.04.026 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of Research Animals Article Title Lineage ...

(Boston)—Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia, affecting more than 5.8 million ...

Currently, there are no disease modifying therapies for Parkinson’s disease that can change the progression of the disease. An international ...

New research published today suggests that the slowdown in improvements in cardiovascular diseases like heart disease and stroke seen in ...

In a new study from the University of Bergen (UiB), confidential drug prices have been used to evaluate coverage decisions ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- When heat waves hit, they don’t just take a toll on people -- the plants we depend ...

Simon Fraser University researchers are studying how a combination of genetics and brain MRIs may be used to predict the ...

Although only recently recognized as an issue in wildlife ecology, snake fungal disease (SFD) is of emerging concern in the ...

Throughout the twentieth century, being “punch drunk” was a commonly encountered condition—one denoted by an equally pervasive term. Similar turns ...

Adult survivors of cancer have a higher risk of heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases (CVD) later in life than ...

ATLANTA—Georgia State University researchers have found that the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 were substantially more fatal in ...

NEW YORK, NY (June 27, 2022)--More than 62,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer by the end ...

Acetylcholine (ACh) is a neuromodulator with a central role in aversive learning—rapid conditioning to unpleasant smell, taste, or touch. These ...

(Copenhagen, 25 June 2022) Patients with a paediatric onset immune-mediated inflammatory disease (pIMID) have a significantly higher risk of premature ...

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai quantifies the cardiovascular risk posed by exposure to ...

People who received at least one influenza vaccine were 40% less likely than their non-vaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer’s disease ...

BOSTON – Nearly six million older adults have Alzheimer’s disease in the United States, a number expected to double by ...

(Boston)—Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most common cause of dementia, affecting more than 5.8 million ...