Tag: fatal

Boys suffering from Barth syndrome, a genetic determined disease with a very high mortality rate, finally have hope for a ...

Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is one of the most dangerous cerebrovascular disorders, with as many as 40% of patients dying within ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Platelets, or thrombocytes, are specialized cellular fragments that form blood clots when we get scrapes and ...

Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries of ...

Russia’s war in the Ukraine has severe consequences not only for humans, it also has detrimental effects on populations of ...

After decades of decline, fatal coronary heart disease may rise again unless Americans modify three major risk factors: smoking, drinking, ...

Research Highlights: An analysis of more than 202,000 heart attack deaths between 2015-2020 in a single Chinese province found that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.  — For decades, efforts by police to seize illicit drugs have been a cornerstone strategy for disrupting drug ...

About The Study: Researchers found in this study that among Medicare beneficiaries initiating opioid use disorder-related care during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Continued warming of the climate would see a rise in the number and spread of potentially fatal infections caused by ...

In an editorial in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, two leading multiple sclerosis (MS) experts are advocating for genetic testing ...

Philadelphia, March 8, 2023 – Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found opioids were responsible for more than half ...

Mutations of the gene encoding dystrophins have long been known to cause the debilitating muscle-wasting disease DMD, which affects one ...

Fukuoka, Japan—Researchers in Japan have uncovered the mechanism for how the measles virus can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered a drug combination that may offer a better prognosis ...

New research has confirmed a strong link between four genetic mutations and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a rare but often ...

Mechanisms involved in the rapid, severe progression of fibrosis in the lung tissues of COVID-19 patients, a potentially fatal complication ...

Amanda Woerman, assistant professor of biology, has received a grant from the Tau Consortium of the Rainwater Charitable Foundation to accelerate her research that ...

Huntington’s disease, a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative condition, is caused by a genetic error present at birth, though its symptoms often ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by a genetic mutation and affects one in every 5,000 boys born. Because the ...