The ongoing U.S. opioid epidemic may have led to an increase in the number of strokes due to more bacterial infections of the heart, or…
UV radiation kills coronavirus in lab, study finds
A specific wavelength of ultraviolet radiation killed more than 99.99% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in laboratory tests, a new study has found.…
Science Says It’s Safe, but Some in France Don’t Trust AstraZeneca Vaccine
PARIS (Reuters) – A 60-year-old recovering from breast cancer, Paris resident Nadine Roger is at high-risk from COVID-19 and wants to get vaccinated as soon…
Predicting success in therapy with individualized cancer models
In the EU alone, 78,800 men died of prostate cancer last year. While tumors discovered at an early stage can often be completely removed by…
A call to action to address racial inequities in medical tests
A new perspective article published in CJASN examines how the use of race in calculating kidney function, as well as other aspects of health, can…
Fungal microbiome: Whether mice get fatter or thinner depends on the fungi that live in their gut
Mice with certain communities of fungi living in their gut gained more weight when eating processed food than mice whose gut microbiomes hosted different communities…
Formaldehyde in hair straighteners prompts FDA warning
You might decide your natural locks aren’t so bad after all, given a new warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that most hair…
Terlipressin bests placebo in type 1 hepatorenal syndrome
(HealthDay)—For patients with type 1 hepatorenal syndrome (HRS-1), terlipressin is more effective than placebo for reversal of HRS, according to a study published in the…
Japan weighing extension of coronavirus emergency in Tokyo
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday he is considering extending a coronavirus state of emergency in the Tokyo region for about two weeks because…
What’s in a name for a vaccine campaign? Maybe the end of the pandemic
Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. had received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by March 1, and millions of others have…