The World Health Organization has officially recognized Egypt as a malaria-free country, the organization said in a press release. This was based on the confirmation beyond reasonable doubt that the chain of transmission by mosquitoes of the genus....
A new study published in the journal Cell sheds light on the neural mechanisms associated with REM sleep and their link to diseases such as Parkinson's. Induction of the REM sleep phase, also called the BDG phase, is...
American and British researchers conducted randomized clinical trials and concluded that direct current electrical stimulation of the brain at home under remote nursing supervision is effective and safe for major depressive...
A study from the Mass Eye and Ear Clinic has found a link between widely prescribed weight loss medications and a rare but serious eye disease. The work, published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, suggests,...
The conclusions are based on the results of a unique experiment neuroscientist Karina Heller, who for the sake of scientific purposes performed 75 brain scans to assess the impact of the menstrual cycle and contraceptive use on its function. It turned out that ...
A study of the global burden of various diseases found that in 2021, 192,000 cases of pulmonary hypertension - an increase in pressure in the small circle of blood circulation - were reported worldwide. As reported in...
Japanese scientists have investigated how 13 oral health characteristics are associated with the risk of functional disability and death. An analysis of a sample of nearly 24,000 people showed that almost all 13 health indicators...
Paleogeneticists have analyzed the genome of a representative of the Darkveti-Meshokovo culture, who lived around 5000-4800 BC in the North Caucasus. Scientists have determined the origin of this person, and also found that the first farmers and cattle breeders of the region...
Swiss doctors have described a case of Parsonage-Turner syndrome after infection with monkeypox: according to their data, such a case has been described only once before. The man, about 30 years old, turned...
A study of the global burden of various diseases found that in 2021, 192,000 cases of pulmonary hypertension - an increase in pressure in the small circle of blood circulation - were reported worldwide. As reported in...
Italian scientists have examined two bone fragments that archaeologists discovered during the excavation of a medieval church in the north of the country. The remains appear to have belonged to a single adult who lived for at least 20 years. Anomalies ...
Niels van Royen of Radboud University of Neugemeen and colleagues conducted randomized clinical trials and found that the incidence of bleeding at the access site during transcatheter aortic valve implantation is lower than...
Eleni Jaswa and her colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted a cohort study and concluded that a woman's exposure to covid during pregnancy does not affect neuropsychiatric development,...
American scientists conducted a retrospective cohort study and found that although the incidence of serious complications during heart and vascular surgeries is comparable in men and women, the lives of the latter are less likely to be saved. The report...
British doctors have described a case of triphallia, a triple penis, in an autopsy of a 78-year-old man with normal external genitalia. However, two small additional penises were located one behind the other at the back of the...
Australian, American and British researchers prospectively analyzed light levels in nearly 89,000 people and found that greater light exposure at night and less during the day...
AlphaFold AI predicts 3D structures of proteins and studies their role in disease development. In new work reported in Nature, scientists have used AI to study in detail the role of proteins in the process of...
What makes a new bacterial vaccine special is its ability to trigger and coordinate all parts of the immune system to activate an anti-tumor immune response, report the vaccine's developers from Columbia University. Experiments showed that the new...
A study by Norwegian and Taiwanese scientists found that children whose fathers took metformin during active spermatogenesis before conception had no greater incidence of congenital anomalies than children from healthy fathers....
Scientists worked with patients with metastatic melanoma. Due to the impossibility of surgery, volunteers were offered standard chemotherapy, but within a year, most developed resistance to treatment. To remedy the situation, the scientists focused on...
US researchers conducted a full-exome analysis of patients, as well as experiments on cell cultures and mice, and concluded that mutations in the melatonin receptor gene may be the cause of idiopathic osteoporosis. The report ...
I see different psychologists on instagram trying to get clever about medical topics, and I realize that they're talking a lot of heresy.... I just want to walk on by and ignore the fools....
According to statistics, about 43% of the world's population is overweight, of which 16% are obese. Scientists from China decided to cope with the problem in a new way and began to look for an opportunity to influence the metabolism of...
A randomized clinical trial by U.S. scientists found that children who attended a free summer day camp had a significant decrease in body mass index compared to children who did not attend camp -...
A cohort study by Israeli scientists found that adolescents treated with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GPP-1) receptor agonists had a 33 percent lower risk of suicidal thoughts or attempts compared to control...
Physicists have questioned why the thermal Hall effect occurs in a planar configuration of temperature gradient and magnetic field. It was previously thought that the phenomenon manifests itself due to chiral magnons or Majorana...
Physicists have attempted to determine the scalability of the phase transition of a macroscopic quantum system as it is measured, using the company's Quantinuum model H1 quantum computer and three different decoders to predict the projection of state. It turned out that the ten-qubit ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of Hympavzi, a drug with the active ingredient monoclonal antibody marstacimab, for the routine prophylaxis of bleeding in patients...
Scientists have discovered a protein that suppresses the formation of new bone tissue. It is it that blocks the activity of bone-forming cells, disrupting the entire process. By affecting the new mechanism, researchers plan to cope with the pathology of osteoblast function in...
Scientists have presented an experimental treatment for a variety of musculoskeletal disorders from osteoporosis to spondylitis. They have discovered a peptide that regulates bone remodeling by restoring cellular balance. The team from the University of Birmingham presented the results ...
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