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February 19, 2024
A new Environmental Working Group study has found chlormequat, a little-known pesticide, in four out of five people tested.
February 16, 2024
A head injury serious enough to affect brain function, such as that caused by a car accident or sudden fall, leads to changes in the brain beyond the site of impact, Tufts University School of Medicine scientists report in the journal Cerebral Cortex.
February 16, 2024
Orexa, a Dutch life sciences company, announces that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 2 clinical trial in the prevention of postoperative ileus.
February 15, 2024
More than one hundred key genes linked to DNA damage have been uncovered through systematic screening of nearly 1,000 genetically modified mouse lines in a new study published in Nature.
February 15, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Aurlumyn (iloprost) injection to treat severe frostbite in adults to reduce the risk of finger or toe amputation.
February 15, 2024
The Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome-Fiumicino raised the level of vigilance towards planes transporting passengers and goods coming from countries where there is a frequent and continuous risk of contracting the Dengue disease.
February 14, 2024
Dengue has been detected in more than half of Argentina\'s provinces, where 39,544 cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been registered along with 29 related deaths, the country\'s health ministry said.
February 13, 2024
A large team of medical researchers affiliated with several institutions in China reports that volunteers engaging regularly in tai chi for one year saw greater reductions in their systolic blood pressure than did volunteers engaging for one year in aerobic exercises.
February 13, 2024
A study of frozen blood samples has turned up a trove of proteins that may predict several forms of dementia more than 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, researchers from the U.K. and China reported on Monday.
February 12, 2024
Rwandan Ministry of Health Sunday urged the public to take precautionary measures, including regular washing of hands, to prevent the spread of highly infectious red eye disease following an outbreak in some regional countries.
February 12, 2024
A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer\'s patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients\' behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the way their genes work.
February 10, 2024
Scientists from the University of Fribourg have discovered a mechanism with which they were able to reduce age-related inflammation in the rodents, thus slowing the ageing process.