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Blood Test Shows Alzheimer’s Signature: A Step Toward Easier Screening
Ottawa – Detecting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarkers in blood plasma could offer a simpler, less invasive alternative to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing, potentially enabling earlier diagnosis and treatment. However, experts urge caution before widespread adoption in primary care.
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World’s First Personalized CRISPR Therapy Successfully Treats Infant with Rare Metabolic Disease
A child with a rare genetic disorder has become the first patient to receive a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy, developed by CHOP and Penn Medicine.
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Il vaiolo e lo stato fragile della preparazione al bioterrorismo
Mentre il mondo si concentra sulle minacce informatiche e sulla guerra convenzionale, una minaccia più antica e letale giace dormiente, in attesa del momento giusto. Il vaiolo, una volta eradicato, potrebbe riemergere non con mezzi naturali, ma attraverso il bioterrorismo. Con un'immunità pubblica limitata e forniture di vaccini che sono ben al di sotto della copertura nazionale, gli Stati Uniti potrebbero non essere così preparati come si crede. La domanda non è solo se siamo pronti, ma cosa succede se non lo siamo?
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Informazioni errate sul vaccino contro il morbillo: RFK Jr. sostiene che l'immunità “svanisce rapidamente” nonostante le prove
Il Segretario alla Sanità Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promuove il vaccino contro il morbillo, sostenendo false affermazioni sulla sicurezza e l'efficacia del vaccino.
Il Segretario alla Sanità Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sta esortando gli americani a sottoporsi al vaccino contro il morbillo, pur sostenendo falsamente che la sua protezione svanisce rapidamente e che i test di sicurezza sono carenti. Gli esperti avvertono che i suoi commenti potrebbero minare la fiducia durante una crescente epidemia.
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Il crack del colesterolo LDL: Una scoperta che cambia le carte in tavola
Nuove intuizioni potrebbero rimodellare i trattamenti per le malattie cardiache e i test genetici
Dopo decenni di ricerche, gli scienziati hanno catturato un'immagine ad alta risoluzione del colesterolo LDL, rivelando come interagisce con il suo recettore sulle cellule umane. Questa scoperta potrebbe trasformare la nostra comprensione del metabolismo del colesterolo, dei disturbi genetici e dei futuri trattamenti cardiovascolari.
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3 milioni di bambini morti: le infezioni resistenti ai farmaci scatenano una crisi globale
Un nuovo studio rivela lo scioccante bilancio della resistenza agli antimicrobici nel 2022, con Africa e Asia le più colpite
Oltre tre milioni di bambini moriranno nel 2022 a causa di infezioni che gli antibiotici non sono più in grado di curare. L'aumento della resistenza antimicrobica (AMR) sta colpendo duramente le regioni più povere e minaccia di cancellare decenni di progressi nella salute infantile.
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Three Ways Forward in a Post Covid-19 World
There are three important ways forward in addressing the pandemic and its impacts on health and wellbeing in the years to come.
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Gender-sensitive Workplace Health Promotion: Why It Is Important and How It Can Be Implemented in Practice
Sex and gender are important determinants of health, but we often lack criteria for effective gender-sensitive work place health promotion. A team at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund are working to overcome these challenges. They have developed 17 criteria and a 62-point checklist for workplace health promotion initiatives.
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COVID-19: the worst may be yet to come
As much of western Europe begins to ease countrywide lockdowns, globally the pandemic may still be in its infancy, with more than 160 000 new cases reported each day since June 25. Individual countries count cases differently, so direct comparisons are difficult, but the numbers illustrate a worrying pattern. At a subnational level the picture is nuanced, with local hotspots, but at a country level the picture is clear—the world is facing a worsening multipolar pandemic.
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Medicine shortages in the EU: causes and solutions
Find out why there is a shortage of medicines, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and how Parliament wants to improve the situation
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Coronavirus Makes Inequality a Public Health Issue
“It may seem like a ridiculous idea but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.” – Dr Rieux in Albert Camus’s 1947 novel, The Plague.
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Study finds functional medicine model is associated with improvements in health-related QOL
In the first retrospective cohort study of the functional medicine model, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that functional medicine was associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.
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NHS treating 5,000 diabetics a day as one in 10 patients now suffer with illness, figures reveal
Hospitals are being deluged by 5,000 type 2 diabetics a day, new figures reveal as one in 10 patients are now suffering from a form of the illness linked to being overweight and inactive.
More than 1.7million people with type 2 diabetes were admitted to hospitals last year, costing the NHS an estimated £22million a day.
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A ‘Cure’ for Ebola but Will it Stop the Outbreak if People Won’t Get Treatment?
While people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are slowly being made aware that scientists have discovered two drugs that are effective in treating Ebola, letting go of the fear and anxiety that has prevailed across the country this year will require more work.
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Civilians ‘continue to pay highest price’ in Ukraine conflict, with peace prospects losing ‘momentum’
“Civilians continue to pay the highest price” arising from Ukraine’s on-going conflict with separatist rebels in the east, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Tuesday, a conflict which is still claiming lives.
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training.
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Incident Management System
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability,
To enhance World Health Organisations Emergency Programme (WHE) response capability, WHE proposed the development of a series of training packages to build staff competencies, skills and knowledge, to enhance deployment and response capability.
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MARIJUANA: The Latest Scientific Findings and Legalization
California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada became the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing to 28 the number of states that have okayed the drug for medicinal use, recreational use, or both ...
What do we know about the health impacts of marijuana, and what do we still need to learn?
Estimating HIV incidence and number of undiagnosed individuals living with HIV in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2015
Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015.
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Typhoid Fever: A Race Against Time
Salmonella uses immune cells, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel
The life-threatening disease typhoid fever results from the ongoing battle between the bacterial pathogen Salmonella and the immune cells of the body. Prof. Dirk Bumann's research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now uncovered how the typhoid pathogen repeatedly manages to evade the host's immune system. Their findings are published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe
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