New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the biological architecture that lets us hear—and on a genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness. Sihan Li, a graduate student in the lab of Jung-Bum Shin, Ph.D., of UVA’s Department of Neuroscience, has made a surprising discovery about how the hearing organ in mammals […]
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A team at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), led by SnT Vice-Director Yves Le Traon, has developed an online tool to simulate COVID-19 exit strategy planning for close to 100 countries. The project is unique because it delivers a method to model the impact of different measures on the spread of COVID-19 in […]
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A combination of very high intravenous doses of vitamin C and a diet that mimics fasting may be an effective way to treat an aggressive type of cancer, a study in mice suggests. Unlike most cancer therapies, it is unlikely to be toxic for healthy tissue. In the 1970s, when the Nobel prizewinning chemist Linus Pauling first proposed that high […]
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Type 2 diabetes would be relatively harmless were it not for rising blood sugar levels. This destructive process happens when a person’s pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin – a hormone that has a moderating effect on blood sugar levels. Left unregulated, blood sugar can damage the blood vessels that supply vital organs. READ MORE Type 2 diabetes: Xerosis is a […]
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted a two-year study on the efficacy of workplace wellness programs and found that such programs have little impact on employee health, health beliefs and medical utilization. Since the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the workplace wellness industry has grown rapidly, spurred in part by the […]
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A new international Phase 3 clinical trial coordinated by Crick Senior Group Leader and Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician, Charles Swanton, will use personalised detection tests to look for the earliest signs of relapse in over 300 patients with lung cancer. The MERMAID-1 trial is a collaboration between the pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, and oncology genomics company, ArcherDX. Researchers will recruit […]
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Russia on Tuesday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll of 174 but said more than 12,000 people had also recovered over the past 24 hours. Health officials said Russia’s total death toll from the pandemic had reached 3,807 and its number of cases had hit 362,342, the third-highest in the world after the United States and Brazil. The number […]
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Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) is the largest hospital under the National Healthcare Group (NHG) with 1600 beds located in the central part of Singapore. Co-located at TTSH is the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), a 14-storey, 330-bed purpose-built facility set up by the Ministry of Health to enhance infectious disease outbreak management and public health preparedness for the […]
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Pollen count is based on how many grains of pollen there are in a cubic metre of the air. People who suffer from hay fever and those who also suffer from asthma may find that their symptoms and conditions worsen when the count is high. The Met Office have forecasted medium levels of pollen for the majority of the UK […]
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Patients with heart failure who experience low health literacy are at an increased risk of hospitalization and mortality. This finding has significant clinical and public health implications and suggests that assessing and intervening upon an individual’s understanding of their own health could improve heart failure outcomes, according to research published in JACC: Heart Failure. Heart failure is a chronic condition […]
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