Health For Each
Atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heart beat that can lead to stroke or sudden death, is three times more common than previously thought, affecting nearly 5% of the population, or 10.5 million U.S. adults, according to new estimates from UC San Francisco.
"Natural variation in neutrophil counts between people of different ancestry has been historically described by the inaccurate and now-outdated diagnosis 'benign ethnic neutropenia,'" says Stephen Hibbs of Queen Mary University of London, who led the study, published today by JAMA Network Open, and for which Dana-Farber's Andrew Hantel, MD is senior author.
Badran and his colleagues wanted to create an efficient plug-and-play strategy that would only incorporate the chosen non-canonical amino acid(s) into specific sites in a target protein, without disrupting the cell's normal biology or requiring the entire genome to be edited.
Jan. 20, 2020 Children born to mothers who both drank and smoked beyond the first trimester of pregnancy have a 12-fold increased risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) compared to those unexposed or only ...
As sample sizes for genetic studies continue to grow and new analytical methods emerge, researchers are increasingly able to tackle the longstanding question of how nature and nurture interact in complex disorders like schizophrenia.
Since weather and climate hazards are specific with regard to a country and its impacts on a population, this study selected well-validated and open meteorological and health data, particularly from the UK.
Recent meta-analyses have validated these hypotheses, highlighting that garlic can substantially reduce lipid metrics (such as total cholesterol and triglycerides) with no adverse effects alongside red yeast and plant sterols.
When researchers examined the brain scans, they found that in the group receiving only usual care, a cognitive control circuit that became less active over the course of the study correlated with worsening problem-solving ability.
Public health experts warn the accompanying service cuts — functions like contact tracing, immunizations, family planning, restaurant inspections, and more — could send communities into crisis.
Pediatricians across the country are pre-ordering the updated and reformulated covid-19 vaccine for the fall and winter respiratory virus season, but some doctors said they’re struggling to predict whether parents will be interested.
Attracting this impressive group of senior advisors from across our key sectors of healthcare, biotech, pharma and outsourcing is a great validation for Automata and the potential that our technology can unlock for the industry.
In the present study, the researchers used Macaca mulatta or rhesus macaques to investigate the protective immune responses elicited by a mucosal bivalent adenoviral vector vaccine containing stabilized spike protein from the ancestral Wuhan strain and the Omicron BA.5 variant of SARS-CoV-2.