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While the United States has recently ordered a $290 million supply of a drug meant to treat radiation sickness, federal health officials say that’s not cause for alarm. It’s coincidental that the order of Nplate, made by pharmaceutical company Amgen,…

Adolescent and young adult women who were diagnosed with cancer and received chemotherapy treatment prior to pregnancy did not have a higher risk of stillbirth, according to research led by Caitlin C. Murphy, Ph.D., MPH, with UTHealth Houston. The study…

Closed-loop devices that provide an automated delivery of insulin have only become available on the French health service in the past year and are not always accessible to all patients wishing to use them. This means that many people with…

A group of researchers based in Brazil and France have managed to discover markers left by exposure to sunlight in the genomes of people who suffer from cutaneous melanoma. An article about the study published in Nature Communications also offers…

Around 80% of people with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer’s disease, often when they are between 40 and 50 years old. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that a simple blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease in…

In a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers assessed the correlation between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleocapsid (N) antigen levels and hospitalized patient outcomes. Study: The Association of Baseline Plasma SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Antigen…

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have for the first time discovered a pattern of DNA mutations that links bladder cancer to tobacco smoking. The discovery was made possible thanks to a powerful new machine learning tool that…

Some children with autism spectrum disorder struggle with anxiety or have difficulty communicating in certain social situations. To help alleviate those struggles, researchers have studied various interventions, including therapy dogs, which are often cited as a popular social catalyst or…

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will laying out his wishes for the Nobel Prize. Here are the winners from 1901 to today: 2022: Svante Pääbo, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct…

Robot doctor may help cancer patients avoid chemotherapy: Former transplant surgeon reveals how his life was saved by Da Vinci robot that operated on his open mouth A new type of robot surgery for head and neck cancers is boosting…