Blood-brain barrier study reveals insights into neurological disease treatment
Scientists from the University of Liverpool and their global collaborators have highlighted the most effective treatments for ...
Death toll from Tanzania Marburg outbreak rises to nine
An outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed nine people in Tanzania, Africa's health agency said Thursday, up from eight ...
The US intends to leave the World Health Organization. What happens next?
Donald Trump's plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been met with dismay in the ...
States consider high costs, possible savings of covering weight-loss drugs for their workers
The skyrocketing popularity of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy, one of a class of drugs called GLP-1s, is fast becoming a state ...
Q&A: Researcher discusses identifying new treatments for pediatric brain cancer
Rakesh Jain Ph.D., Director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, is senior ...
Dogs paired with providers at hospitals help ease staff and patient stress
Outside HCA HealthONE Rose medical center, the snow is flying. Inside, on the third floor, there's a flurry of activity ...
Boosting protein BCL6 could help GLP-1 users retain muscle while losing fat
About one in eight adults in the United States has tried or currently uses a GLP-1 medication, and a quarter of those users cite weight loss as their main goal. But weight loss doesn't discriminate ...
A matrix instead of a number: New model reimagines R for infectious disease spread
U.S. sociologist Scott Feld wrote, "Your friends have more friends than you do." Feld's so-called friendship paradox states that the friends of any given person have more friends on average than the ...
Child mortality in England has risen since pandemic, study finds
While child deaths in England fell temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, they have now risen to new heights, a new study from researchers at the University of Bristol and based on unique National ...
Long COVID symptoms linger: Study shows no major changes in second year
Two-thirds of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome have persistent, objective symptoms—including reduced physical exercise capacity and reduced cognitive test performances—for a year or more, with no ...
Medicare claims study finds electronic medical records boost hospital bottom lines by increasing accuracy of billing
A new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst health economist dispels the notion that hospitals' adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) is driving up health care spending by helping ...
Risk preference is governed by different hypothalamus–habenula circuits, study finds
To survive in complex and unpredictable environments, humans and other animals need to learn to predict the consequences of ...