The biggest risk factors for COVID-19 death
Scientists from the University of Maryland found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or if they are...
Too many older people take too much aspirin and too few statins
Scientists from the University of Connecticut found that while adults aged 75 years and older do not benefit from taking aspirin to prevent heart...
Scientists find one important cause of Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists from Flinders University found how a protein called tau, a critical factor in the development of Alzheimer's disease, turns from normal to a...
Family’s hereditary heart condition discovered after her father and two sisters died young
DeAnn Bartram was 16 when her father felt like he had a virus he couldn't shake.
Doctors said he had cardiomyopathy, a condition where the...
Weight loss surgery linked to higher risk of opioid addiction
Scientists from the University of Michigan found that a third of people who underwent weight-loss surgery were at high risk of overdosing from prescription...
Mental health problems in Alzheimer´s disease you need to know
Scientists from Lund University in Sweden found mental health problems in Alzheimer´s disease.
The research is published in Biological Psychiatry and was conducted by Professor...
Insulin is an extreme financial burden for more than 14% of diabetics who use...
Scientists from Yale found that 14% of people who use insulin in the United States face what is described as a “catastrophic” level of...
Antibodies cannot effectively inhibit new omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5
Scientists from the German Primate Center found that "new" omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 are less efficiently blocked by antibodies compared to the...
Why don’t we have synthetic blood yet?
Blood from a lamb, into a human – this sounds like a horror movie, but it’s actually the first recorded blood transfusion… four hundred...
Scientists find an important cause of schizophrenia
Scientists from Santa Casa de São Paulo Medical School found that lack of oxygen during the period anticipating childbirth can be a cause of...