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1 in 8 people with COVID-19 develop long COVID symptoms

Scientists from the University of Groningen found one in eight adults (12.7%) who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience long-term symptoms due to COVID-19. The research...

Social isolation, loneliness can damage heart and brain health

Scientists from the American Heart Association suggest that social isolation and loneliness may increase the risk of having or dying from a heart attack...

What causes hepatitis?

Hepatitis has been in the news a lot lately. New cases have been showing up in children around the world. Doctors aren’t sure why. Hepatitis is...

Rapid rise in monkeypox spurs calls for better tests, more vaccine doses

With U.S. monkeypox cases going from zero to more than 6,000 in less than three months, researchers concerned about the pace of transmission are...

This drug combo for type 2 diabetes remains effective after 2 years

Scientists from Thomas Jefferson University found that a drug combo of diabetes drugs dapagliflozin and exenatide continues to stay effective, without loss of effect,...

This new rapid test could detect cancer and heart disease more easily

Scientists from Imperial College London and elsewhere have built a new easy-to-use test that could diagnose non-infectious diseases like heart attacks and cancers more...

This diabetes drug may lower death risk in people with type 2 diabetes and...

Scientists from Boston Children’s Hospital found that sitagliptin, a drug to lower blood sugar in type 2 diabetes, also improves survival in diabetic patients...

Scientists discover similarity between schizophrenia and dementia

Scientists from Max Plank for the first time compared schizophrenia and frontotemporal dementia—disorders that are both located in the frontal and temporal lobe regions...

Scientific find surgeries to treat high blood pressure

Scientists from Örebro University found metabolic surgeries are not only effective for treating Type 2 diabetes and obesity. These surgeries also have benefits for people...

Almost 90% of people with opioid use disorder not receiving life-saving medication

While the opioid overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen across the United States, medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone are proven...