'We are trying to raise the awareness because we are at the very, very beginning and it's we have a good window of opportunity to stop the transmission now,' said Sylvie Briand, WHO director for Glob… [+2591 chars]
The worsening flu season in Australia has provoked fears among scientists that parts of Europe will follow suit this winter, with mass infections and hospitalisations among all age groups. Australia… [+2173 chars]
Summary: Depression, stress, and anxiety in pregnant women that occurred as a result of the COVID-29 pandemic may have an impact on fetal brain development. Source: Nature Self-reported maternal ps… [+5573 chars]
A common HIV drug has been shown to improve the connections between memories in aging mice. The findings could help reveal how contextual events are remembered in the human brain, and why this become… [+3430 chars]
Doctors at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) have explained how a pensioner came to the emergency department experiencing short term memory loss due to sexual intercourse with his wife. In a nutshe… [+1717 chars]
Many years ago, my father was told by his GP that he had to go for surgery. And he had to go now: this was a physical time bomb that could detonate at any minute. Obviously, my father was shocked an… [+3293 chars]
<ul><li>Drug has been able to deal with condition called alopecia areata.</li><li>NHS says condition affects every 15 in 10,000 people in UK alone.</li><li>NHS reports that hair loss can be caused by… [+1563 chars]
Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm and it stays in that posit… [+3451 chars]
GROUP MEDICINE Runners marking the first anniversary of the Westport parkrun back in 2014. HealthAndrew O'Brien I just read an article about a guy youll never hear about unless you Google him. And … [+3880 chars]
The worsening flu season in Australia has provoked fears among scientists that parts of Europe will follow suit this winter, with mass infections and hospitalisations among all age groups. Australia… [+2173 chars]
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Devanthro GmbH has modified a robot shoulder to serve as a stretching mechanism in an effort to grow useful human tendon tissue. In their paper… [+2654 chars]
T cells, biology textbooks teach us, are the soldiers of the immune system, constantly on the ready to respond to a variety of threats, from viruses to tumors. However, without rest and maintenance T… [+2160 chars]