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Scientists conduct first human challenge study to show how COVID-19 attacks

A human challenge study also called a controlled human infection trial, is a type of clinical trial for a vaccine or other pharmaceutical involving...

Progress in Parkinson’s disease: What you need to know

Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease is life-changing. This brain disorder causes slow and rigid body movements. People can experience tremors, stiffness, or shaking. Eventually, they...

COVID-19 has lingering impacts on brain, scientists find

COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don't fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection. Scientists...

Eating processed food at night may harm people with diabetes

Scientists from Harbin Medical University found the time of day that people with diabetes eat certain foods may be just as important to their...

Common coronavirus infections cannot produce antibodies against COVID-19

Although SARS-CoV-2 has taken the world by storm, it's not the only coronavirus that can infect humans. But unlike SARS-CoV-2, common human coronaviruses (HCoVs) generally...

1 in 3 older adults in the U.S. may be prescribed inappropriate drugs, study...

Scientists from the University at Buffalo found the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications to older adults in the United States is linked to increased...

Scientists find better way to detect common cognitive disease

In recent years, the subcortical small-vessel disease has become an increasingly common cognitive diagnosis. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg found that it is possible...

People with diabetes should consider taking this vitamin

Vitamin B1 or Thiamin (thiamine) is a water-soluble vitamin. It is an essential micronutrient that cannot be made in the body.  It could be found...

This type of drug may help reduce ‘long COVID’ symptoms

Scientists from the University of California, Irvine found antihistamines may provide relief for the millions of people suffering from the painful, debilitating symptoms of...

Type 2 diabetes remission is possible for these people

Scientists found that remission from type 2 diabetes is possible for people with lower BMIs. They found that remission of type 2 diabetes is possible...