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The mystery of the human genome's dark matter Twenty years ago, an enormous scientific effort revealed that the human genome contains 20,000 protein-coding genes, but they account for just 2% of our DNA. The rest of was written off as junk – but we are now realising it has a crucial role to play.
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Parathyroidectomy Does Not Preserve Kidney Function in Seniors Early parathyroidectomy within 1 year of diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) did not reduce the risk of a sustained decline in kidney function, measured by a decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of at least 50%, ...
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COVID-19 pandemic may have negative impact on accuracy of cancer research data The first year of the pandemic saw 14.4% fewer cancer cases reported in the U.S. compared with previous year. The decrease could have several downstream effects if not accounted for properly, researchers noted. The number of individuals diagnosed with ...
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Parkinson's Biomarker Shows High Accuracy An alpha-synuclein seed amplification assay (SAA) accurately detected Parkinson's disease in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and identified people with early, non-motor symptoms prior to diagnosis, cross-sectional data from the Parkinson's Progression ...
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Paul Edmonds, 5th person apparently cured of HIV, steps forward to share his story Paul Edmonds' journey into medical history began decades ago. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 - a time when it was a potential death sentence. Thanks to his own perseverance and advances in treatment, he survived - even thrived - after his diagnosis.
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How Opioid Prescriptions and Suicide Rates are Linked A newly published study has found that opioid prescription rates may be linked to opioid-related suicide deaths. Experts want to see this research drill down from the broad data trend approach and into more specific and actionable takeaways.
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Hot, cold temperature exposure before, after birth related to infant lung function Infant boys did not show the same consistent relationships as girls. Maternal and newborn exposures to long-term hot and cold temperatures are linked to worse lung capacity in babies, specifically in girls, according ...
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Hard Stops for EMRs Reduces Rates of Hospital-Acquired Clostridioides difficile Infection These are used to help reduce inappropriate testing, where an expert consults with medical directors of infection prevention and control for a test-order override. Advertisement.
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RAS Inhibitors Flop for Critically Ill COVID "Analyses suggest that there was a high probability that inhibiting angiotensin II, either by reducing its production (ACE inhibitors) or blocking its effect (ARBs), worsened outcomes among critically ill patients," Lawler and team wrote.
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Exercise Is Even Better in Nature, Research Says April 12, 2023 -- Take exercise outside to nature if you want greater benefits, including mental clarity and motivation, new research into "green exercise" suggests. One study, published in Nature, says the neurological effects of physical activity in ...
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2nd educator at Eaglecrest High School dies, bacterial meningitis investigated The Arapahoe County Coroner confirmed Schmidt had symptoms consistent with bacterial meningitis. Classes and activities were canceled for Wednesday. The Arapahoe County Coroner has confirmed the death of Judity Geoffroy who also worked at the school.
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Statins Cut Heart Risks for Folks Living With HIV By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- As people with HIV live longer they're at risk of premature heart disease. But a new study finds statin drugs can cut the risk of serious heart problems by more ...
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Weight-Loss Surgery Might Reverse the Nerve Damage That Diabetes Brings By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, April 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While the immediate goal of bariatric surgery is to help obese patients shed significant weight, new research shows it may also reduce diabetes complications, ...
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Genomics Can Help Diagnose Rare Pediatric Diseases Genomic analysis can lead to a diagnosis in a substantial proportion of children with rare, undiagnosed diseases, according to results from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study. Of 13,449 kids included in the multicenter study conducted in the ...
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High Blood Pressure in 30s, Worse Brain Health by 70s? A new study suggests that treating the condition in young and middle-aged adults may help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease later on, especially in men. For the study, researchers examined brain scans ...
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Thousands receive diagnosis after 60 new diseases found Thousands of children with severe developmental disorders have finally been given a diagnosis, in a study that found 60 new diseases. Children, and their parents, had their genetic code - or DNA - analysed in the search for answers to their condition.
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Allergies: Climate Change Is Worsening 'Sneezin' Season' A person dealing with seasonal allergies may experience sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose, watery eyes, an itchy throat and eyes and wheezing. Pollen can also aggravate asthma symptoms. Allergists can help people get all of those symptoms under ...
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STDs are on the rise. This morning-after-style pill may help U.S. health officials released data Tuesday showing how chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases have been accelerating, but doctors are hoping an old drug will help fight the sexually transmitted infections. Video above: Why are infection rates for ...
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Umbrella review finds 'inconclusive evidence' supporting cognitive benefits of exercise After re-examining more than 20 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, researchers said they found "inconclusive evidence" supporting a positive link between regular physical exercise and cognition in healthy participants.
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Warm, dry and windy weather contribute to rising allergy levels around Minnesota "We just started hearing from my parents as of this morning," Dr. Pramod Kelkar, an allergist at Allina Health, said. "Allergy symptoms, typically nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, itchy watery eyes.".
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A new peptide may hold potential as an Alzheimer's treatment MIT neuroscientists have found a way to reverse neurodegeneration and other symptoms of Alzheimer's disease by interfering with an enzyme that is typically overactive in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. When the researchers treated mice with a ...
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Parathyroidectomy may preserve kidney function in some patients with hyperparathyroidism Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a common endocrine disorder that has been linked to higher risks for chronic kidney disease (CKD), Carolyn D. Seib, MD, MAS, an assistant professor of surgery at Stanford Medicine, and colleagues wrote in Annals of ...
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COPD Associated With Gradual Hearing Loss, Study Finds In a study on the association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and long-term hearing loss, researchers found that people with COPD had higher incidences of hearing decline at low and mid frequencies over 20 years.
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Estimating Trends, Quantifying Changes From RSV's Burden on Health Care Systems RSV most frequently causes mild respiratory tract infections, but can be more severe in children younger than 2 years. RSV infection is best anticipated by the season, being most frequent in the late fall, winter, and early spring. However, the COVID-19 ...
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Study reveals cancer's 'infinite' ability to evolve An unprecedented analysis of how cancers grow has revealed an "almost infinite" ability of tumours to evolve and survive, say scientists. The results of tracking lung cancers for nine years left the research team "surprised" and "in awe" at the ...
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Bacterial meningitis is in Colorado's headlines. Here's what you should know about the disease Denver7 took these questions and more to UCHealth Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Michelle Barron and other health sources to learn more about bacterial meningitis. What is bacterial meningitis and how does one get ...
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Marin's wet season could bring more mosquitoes The cause is standing water, which provides a potent breeding ground for mosquito larvae, said Nizza Sequeira, a spokesperson for the Marin/Sonoma Mosquito and Vector Control District. Mosquitoes and the illness they bring ...
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Enhances Stroke Diagnosis April 12, 2023 - Published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, findings from Florida International University's College of Business (FIU Business) indicate that a new machine-learning (ML) algorithm could leverage hospital and social ...
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How one pharmacy is getting creative to treat strep throat amid Amoxicillin shortage FITCHBURG (WKOW) -- As cases of group A strep surge in southern Wisconsin, some pharmacies in our area are experiencing a backlog of the common strep treatment drug, Amoxicillin. Pharmacists at Fitchburg Family Pharmacy, however, have found a way ...
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70% of Cannabis Products Have Less THC Than They Claim Researchers have found that many of the cannabis products they tested had lower amounts of THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, than what was listed on the label. Cannabis flower refers to the dried flower bud of a female cannabis plant.
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Easy-to-use Parkinson's gloves can automatically reduce tremors Doctors at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital have developed lightweight and easy-to-use Parkinson's gloves that can automatically reduce tremors, allowing Parkinson's Disease patients to enjoy social life and reducing side effects from medication ...
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Correspondence of functional connectivity gradients across human isocortex, cerebellum, and hippocampus Gradient mapping is an important technique to summarize high dimensional biological features as low dimensional manifold representations in exploring brain structure-function relationships at various levels of the cerebral cortex.
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Medical Moment: Trial seeks to predict post-stroke motor function recovery (WNDU) - Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. And if they don't get quick medical attention, stroke can cause death, or permanent disability. Now, researchers are testing a new screening method that may predict a patient's motor ...
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Changes to tumor DNA can help predict cancer's next move In a series of seven papers published today (Weds April 12) in Nature and Nature Medicine, Cancer Research UK-funded researchers based at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London (UCL) describe how changes to cancer cells' DNA are enabling ...
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Officials confirm 19 cases of fungal outbreak tied to UP paper mill County health officials in Michigan's Upper Peninsula are investigating a fungal outbreak that can lead to lung infections that has affected more than a dozen and a half people this year and is tied to paper mill. Michael Snyder, Health Officer for the ...
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Astrocyte–neuron subproteomes and obsessive–compulsive disorder mechanisms Furthermore, genetic rescue experiments combined with behavioural analyses and molecular assessments in a mouse model of OCD lacking SAPAP3 revealed distinct contributions of astrocytic and neuronal SAPAP3 to repetitive and anxiety-related OCD-like ...
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Ghana first to approve Oxford's malaria vaccine LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - A keenly-watched malaria vaccine from Oxford University has secured its first approval, in Ghana, as the African country ramps up efforts to combat the mosquito-borne disease that kills a child every minute.
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Doctors seeing rise in potentially dangerous strep strain "Particularly if you feel like you're swallowing glass and you have a fever," said Mark Dougherty, infectious disease doctor with Baptist Health. Dougherty says these could be symptoms of invasive group A ...
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Covid-19 spring booster vaccine available for most vulnerable The Public Health Agency (PHA) in Northern Ireland has launched a spring booster vaccine programme against Covid-19 for people most at risk of serious illness from the disease. It is being offered to people over 75, care home residents and people with ...
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Comparative Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern We generated aerosols (<5 μm) containing SARS-CoV-2 with a 3-jet Collison nebulizer and fed them into a Goldberg drum to create an aerosolized environment (Video), using an initial virus stock of 105.75–106 50% tissue-culture infectious dose (TCID50) per ...
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OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response OHSU: 12; Hillsboro Medical Center: 1; OHSU Hospital and OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center hospitalization details: 5 Not Fully Vaccinated/Unvaccinated; 6 Fully Vaccinated; 2 Fully Vaccinated with Booster. 0 de-isolated; 13 infectious.
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A Woman With Tuberculosis Took a Bus to a Casino While Officer With a Warrant for Her Arrest Let Her Go Tuberculosis bacteria. Computer artwork of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the Gram- positive rod-shaped bacteria which cause the disease tuberculosis. A Washington State woman who has been diagnosed ...
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Blood tests could one day predict how patients' cancer will spread, research suggests Scientists say they are now one step closer to unlocking the ability to predict just that. In a series of seven papers published in Nature and Nature Medicine, Cancer Research UK-funded researchers describe how changes to the DNA of cancer cells allow them ...
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Why are silent heart attacks increasing at an alarming rate? How to prevent them? Know risk factors However, she had not been feeling quite herself lately. She had been experiencing shortness of breath, fatigue and chest discomfort, but she attributed these symptoms to her age and diabetes. She was referred to me for evaluation and investigations ...
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Early-life gut microbial dysbiosis exacerbates colitis Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder that causes intestinal inflammation. Although the precise cause of IBD is unknown, several factors that lead to this disease have been identified. These factors are linked to age, ...
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China confirms first death from common avian influenza H3N8 strain A bird flu strain that is very rare in humans has claimed a woman's life in China, authorities have confirmed. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the 56-year-old woman from Guangdong in China's south was the third person to have recently ...
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Vaccine Preventable Diseases in a Post-COVID World The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increase of vaccine preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks across the globe, especially in low-risk countries. A major driver of the current surge in VPD incidence is ...
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Customers of north London, Ont. Tim Hortons asked to monitor for hepatitis A symptoms The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) said in a statement on Wednesday that the case was confirmed by a lab on April 11 involving an employee of the Tim Hortons at 1825 Adelaide St. N., located at the corner of Adelaide Street and Sunningdale Road.
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Hospitals need to establish antimicrobial stewardship programs to prevent C. difficile infections This document, published today in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, is the most recent expert guidance in the series known collectively as the Compendium. C. difficile is an urgent health threat, ...
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Raise your awareness of this cancer affecting younger men About half of testicular cancers occur in men between the ages of 20 and 34, according to the American Cancer Society. The fact that testicular cancer affects many men between puberty and older adulthood sets it apart from other cancers mostly ...
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