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Fatal Respiratory Disorder; Scientists use a gene editing method called CRISPR/Cas9 to generate mice that faithfully mimic a fatal respiratory disorder in newborn infants that turns their lips and skin blue. The new laboratory model allow researchers to pinpoint the ailment’s cause and develop a potential and desperately need nanoparticle base treatment. Mostly untreatable, Alveolar…
Facebook; Language in Facebook posts may help identify conditions such as diabetes, anxiety, depression and psychosis in patients, according to a study from Penn Medicine and Stony Brook University researchers. It’s believed that language in posts could be indicators of disease and, with patient consent, could be monitored just like physical symptoms. This study was…
A public health, police, and military partnership to reduce the mosquito population in Sri Lanka resulting in a more than 50% reduction in dengue; as well as cost savings; as dengue is a viral illness transmitting by mosquitoes and can cause fever, pain, rash, and other flu-like symptoms. While a new dengue vaccine raised hope…
A new renal biomarker was present at the ERA-EDTA Congress last year that shows that urinary DKK3; might help to identify patients who are at risk of progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD). The pathological change that correlates with progressive kidney damage; is tubulointerstitial fibrosis, the mechanisms of which are the subject of intensive research at…
The researches find that the Crohn’s disease is a lifelong condition which sees parts of the digestive system become inflamed. There is no precise cure and causes are believe to vary. But one indicator of the condition an abnormal reaction of the immune system to certain bacteria in the intestines has had new light shed…
Oral cancer is known for its high mortality rate in developing countries; Researchers have discovered epigenetic markers; that are distinctly different in oral cancer tissues comparing to the adjacent healthy tissues in patients; As oral cancer is knowing for its high mortality rate. But discovering the epigenetic markers that are distinctly different in oral cancer…
World Trade Center (WTC) responders with prostate cancer show signs that exposure to dust; from the World Trade Center site had activate chronic inflammation in their prostates, which may have contributed to their cancer; according to a study by Mount Sinai researchers in Molecular Cancer Research in June. Inflammation has long been considered an important factor…
A team of researchers led by a member of the Colorado School of Public Health faculty at the Anschutz Medical Campus examine what type of social interaction is require for people to display physiological synchrony; mutual changes in autonomic nervous system activity. The study also look whether the levels of autonomic arousal people share predicts…
As socioeconomic factors have long been recognizing as critical determinants of individual and population health; College affirmative action bans may adversely affect the health of underrepresented minority high school students; banning consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. Public policies that influence socioeconomic opportunities may have profound effects on health risk behaviors among adolescents;…
The researches find that the patients undergoing CT of the abdomen and pelvis (CTAP) for suspected urolithiasis. The study is publish online in the Journal of American College of Radiology (JACR). Therefore Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging test that is widely use worldwide to establish medical diagnoses and perform image-guided interventions. More recently; concern has…
Future long-duration missions will be conduct with knowledge obtain from the LEO missions and the lunar landings of 50 years ago. Scientific knowledge from life sciences research and aerospace medicine practice provides a wealth of knowledge; on physiological and psychological issues in outer space to practitioners,crew members and mission designer’s today. Selection of appropriate individuals…
All the 23 candidates of Democratic presidential for their views on the best ways to improve the health care system; study receiving responses from 19 of them; When the 2020 Democrats were asking the best way to improve the health care system, a split in the fieling was revealing; Here are full responses from 19…