Tag: Health Science

Report suggests a big improvement in lung cancer survival

November 19, 2024

More people with lung cancer are living longer, but it remains America's deadliest cancer, a new state-by-state report shows. "There ...

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Urban mosquito sparks malaria surge in East Africa

November 19, 2024

Bed nets -- up to now the prime weapon against malaria -- may be much less effective against the urban ...

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Radiologists could soon be using AI to detect brain tumors

November 19, 2024

Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels A paper titled "Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Detection and Classification" published ...

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Study challenges safety concerns over planned home births for low-risk pregnancies

November 18, 2024

KÄla Noel captured this image of the Wagar family welcoming their baby at a planned home birth. Credit: Melissa Cheyney, ...

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The inconsistencies of genetic markers for predicting heart disease

November 18, 2024

Risk Predictions for 5 Randomly Selected Individuals in the All of Us (AOU) Research Program. Credit: JAMA (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.23784 ...

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Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your bladder to beat back harmful microbes

November 18, 2024

Escherichia coli. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from ...

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Giving pharmacists feedback improved care for veterans with heart failure

November 18, 2024

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Pharmacists who received active feedback about their heart failure patients increased the frequency of their patient ...

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Oropouche virus transmission to unborn child confirmed

November 18, 2024

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first confirmed case of vertical transmission of Oropouche virus (OROV) has been reported by 23 ...

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When more dopamine means more tremor

November 18, 2024

Reduced dopamine loss is linked to tremor in Parkinson's patients, challenging common beliefs. Credit: Neural Circuits Dysfunction Lab, Champalimaud Foundation ...