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November 13, 2018
The death toll in a cholera outbreak hitting at least three out of six of Nigeria northeastern states has risen to 175 as of early November, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an international humanitarian group on Monday.
November 13, 2018
he U.S. Food and Drug Administration will soon announce a ban on sales of most flavored electronic cigarettes in retail stores and gas stations across the United States, according to media reports.
November 12, 2018
Researchers have been searching for possible treatments for the polio-like illness causing paralysis in children, called acute flaccid myelitis.
November 9, 2018
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have shown that a single \"cocktail\" of three pill-based anti-parasite medications is significantly more effective at killing microscopic larval worms in people diagnosed with lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, than other standard two-drug combinations previously used in the global effort to eliminate this infectious disease.
November 9, 2018
Mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles are well known as primary vectors of malaria. But a new study suggests that Anopheles species, including some found in the United States, also are capable of carrying and transmitting an emerging pathogen, Mayaro virus, which has caused outbreaks of disease in South America and the Caribbean.
November 8, 2018
People with Alzheimer\'s disease who were treated with diabetes drugs showed considerably fewer markers of the disease - including abnormal microvasculature and disregulated gene expressions - in their brains compared to Alzheimer\'s patients without treatment for diabetes, Mount Sinai researchers report.
November 7, 2018
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, have discovered that neurons located in the vision centers of the brains of blind rats functioned normally following fetal retina cell transplants, indicating the successful restoration of vision.
November 6, 2018
Screen-time has little impact on the quality of children\'s sleep, according to new Oxford University research.
November 6, 2018
Mobile phones are in the news following the release of results from a US research programme that tested if a certain type of radiation given off by phones can cause cancer. As a result, headlines are claiming that there\'s now \"clear evidence\" linking mobile phones to cancer.
November 5, 2018
German, Chinese and Danish scientists developed a nanometer-sized robot that can, for the first time, drill through eyeballs without damaging them, with a potential to be used as a minimally-invasive tool for precisely delivering drugs.
November 3, 2018
A worrying condition is spreading across the U.S. and it targets children: acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). It may look similar to polio and it is a serious condition so no wonder that alarm is on around the country.
November 2, 2018
A newly published scientific paper indicates that occupational safety and daily day performance in 7 out of 10 workers, from several European industries, is negatively affected by a combination of heat stress and failure to maintain water balance.