Image provided by iStock.A recent study form Norway indicates coffee consumption can lead to higher levels of cholesterol, especially unfiltered coffee, according to a Daily Journal report. A study … [+833 chars]
A little boy whose symptoms were allegedly dismissed by a doctor as attention-seeking turned out to be caused by a life-threatening brain tumour. Arthur Ridout, 3, spent months travelling back and f… [+4785 chars]
Rheumatoid arthritis can significantly lower quality of life, affecting mobility of a person and causing joint damage which only gets worse as the disease progresses. There is no cure for arthritis, … [+3059 chars]
Proteins are not static structures, they move and fold. In different shapes, they sometimes have different functions. And sometimes, when they misfold, they cause certain diseases, such as Creutzfeld… [+7189 chars]
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The more antibiotics that seniors take, the greater their risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study suggests. The findings could help explain so… [+2888 chars]
In a recent study published in Science Advances, researchers generated a recombinant influenza virus expressing micro ribonucleic acid (miRNAs) expressed in cardiomyocytes to infect mice, which serve… [+5664 chars]
Postpartum depression symptoms increased among women in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, results from a University of Virginia Health System study showed.1 During th… [+3029 chars]
Vaccines based on inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus are commonly used in developing countries due to their low cost. New research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that a booster shot of mRNA vac… [+4408 chars]
A species of jumping spider in Kenya appears to use the blood-red abdomen of mosquitoes to target them as prey. “They’re such tiny animals, with an even tinier brain, and a sensory system that we do… [+1882 chars]
Findings presented at the 2022 AUA Annual Meeting suggest that immune-related adverse events (irAEs) may be a prognostic marker for improved survival and progression-free outcomes with pembrolizumab … [+3888 chars]
Physicians Briefing Staff FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In the year prior to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) diagnosis, patients present with gallstone disease six times more ofte… [+1459 chars]
FRIDAY, May 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer may feel like a death sentence because this fast-moving disease is often discovered at a later stage, when it's harder to tre… [+5963 chars]
