Expert warns three popular foods could lead to vision loss
Eye health: Nutritionist reveals foods that protect your eyes We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our…
Read MoreCultural competency in healthcare: Expert perspectives
What is cultural competency, and how does it fit in with healthcare? A recent survey among physicians in the United States shows that cultural competency is a key issue both for healthcare practitioners and their patients, so what are the…
Read MoreJ&J, SciBase to pilot AI-driven skin monitoring for infants
Nevisense Go, a portable, non-invasive tool that uses electrical impedance spectroscopy measurements for skin barrier assessment, will be studied in clinical practice at hospitals in Switzerland. WHY IT MATTERS With 20% of children developing atopic dermatitis, SciBase, developer of the AI…
Read MoreWhats the Difference Between a Fruit and a Vegetable?
What’s the difference between fruit and vegetables? At a glance, the answer to this question may seem pretty simple. Obvious, even. If it’s sweet and juicy like a strawberry, it must be a fruit. And if it’s savoury and fibrous…
Read MoreVirtual reality platform developed for context-dependent cognitive research in rodents
In a study published online in Neuroscience Bulletin, the researchers from Dr. Xu Chun’s Lab and Dr. Wen Yunqing at the Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and…
Read MoreWhats it like being a young person with long COVID? You might feel like a failure (but youre not)
Imagine you’re young, healthy and active. Then, one day, the rug is pulled out from under you. You initially have symptoms akin to a cold, so you take a lateral flow test, which shows you have COVID. But it’s nothing…
Read MoreExploring the role of lamin in normal aging
Since the discovery that mutations in the LMNA gene (which encodes the nuclear structure components lamin A and C) lead to Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), people have speculated that lamins may have a role in normal aging. The most common…
Read MoreTreating Deadly Disease in Utero Called ‘Revolutionary’ Advance
The successful treatment of Pompe disease in utero for the first time may be the start of a new chapter for fetal therapy, researchers said. A report published online November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine describes in…
Read MoreLucid dying: Patients recall death experiences during CPR: Detection of rhythmic brain waves suggestive of near-death experiences
One in five people who survive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest may describe lucid experiences of death that occurred while they were seemingly unconscious and on the brink of death, a new study shows. Led by researchers at NYU…
Read MoreThe effect of vaccination-induced immunity on viral loads of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers analyzed nationwide vaccination data and cycle threshold value data from four laboratories in Israel that conduct severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) tests…
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