Scabs, scars, red-raw welts and an undeniable urge to scratch, pick, and peel – this is the skin of someone struggling with dermatillomania. While the causes behind dermatillomania, also known as excoriation disorder, are complex, an unexpected side effect of…
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Oldest ‘nearly complete’ HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966
The oldest known nearly complete gene sequence from the HIV strain that spread across the world has been found in a tissue sample from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a new study finds. The tissue sample was taken…
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AI tool gives doctors a new look at the lungs in treating COVID-19
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Princeton researchers have developed a diagnostic tool to analyze chest X-rays for patterns in diseased lungs. The new tool could give doctors valuable information about a patient’s condition, quickly and cheaply, at the point of…
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The reproducibility crisis might be all in your software
Science is supposed to be repeatable. But more and more often, scientists are finding it hard to re-do published experiments and get the same results. Now, a large group of neuroscientists suggest software may be part of the trouble. Science…
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Corona-Pay in Germany: a more obvious increase in the number of New infections
The number of positive Corona Tests in Germany has risen to 176.486. Thus, the number of new infections is on the day, at 814. This is a significant increase. On Tuesday, the number of new infections at 499 was, on…
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Meet the incredible young women fighting coronavirus myths in rural Zambia
There are rural pockets of certain African countries that have a limited understanding of the coronavirus pandemic – and myths, misinformation and fake news is killing people. However, a group of young women working in remote parts of Zambia are…
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First prospective study of critically ill COVID-19 patients in NYC
The largest prospective study of adult COVID-19 patients in USA to date confirms that critical illness is common among hospitalized patients (22%, 257/1150). Critically ill COVID-19 patients frequently require mechanical ventilation (79%, 203/257) and death rates among such patients are…
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Spending on primary care continues to lag in the U.S.
(HealthDay)—Spending on inpatient services, specialty care, and prescriptions together accounted for about two-thirds of the increase in total U.S. health care spending from 2002 to 2016, according to a research letter published online May 18 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Sara…
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Cervical precancer identified by fluorescence, in a step toward bedside detection
A team of researchers at Tufts University’s School of Engineering and its School of Medicine, and physicians at Tufts Medical Center have developed a method using fluorescence to detect precancerous metabolic and physical changes in epithelial cells lining the cervix….
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How to test for an STI while in lockdown
Despite warnings for people to stay at least two metres away from anyone who doesn’t live in their household, many are still sneaking out to have sex. New stats from Superdrug have revealed that there’s been a 46% increase for…
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