More than half a million COVID-19 patients in LMICs estimated to need oxygen treatment every day. New assessments show US$90 million immediate funding required to meet an urgent need in up to 20 low- and ...
As people get older, their neural stem cells lose the ability to proliferate and produce new neurons, leading to a decline in memory function. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now discovered a mechanism ...
Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids – often referred to as ‘mini-organs’ – in the lab and shown that these can be used to repair damaged human livers. This is the ...
Intravenous injection of bone marrow-derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University and Japan report in the Journal of Clinical Neurology and ...
Children exposed to air pollution, such as wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for as little as one day may be doomed to higher rates of heart disease and other ailments in adulthood, according to a ...
Dementia is a syndrome – usually of a chronic or progressive nature – in which there is deterioration in cognitive function (i.e. the ability to process thought) beyond what might be expected from normal ageing. ...
Australia remains on track and begins rolling out the COVID-19 Vaccination Program starting today, February 22, 2021. Initial doses of vaccines will go to: aged care and disability care residents and workers frontline healthcare workers ...
Elizabeth and Bruce Dunlevie have made an $80 million gift to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine to launch a bold new clinical and research program that will transform the health of mothers ...
Taeniasis is an intestinal infection caused by T. solium tapeworm and occurs when humans eat raw or undercooked, infected pork. A three-year pilot project for the control of taeniasis in Madagascar has shown very interesting ...
Listeria can cause severe illness (known as invasive listeriosis) when the bacteria spread beyond the gut to other parts of the body. The CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and state officials are ...
A suite of tools to help countries improve diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer is being released by the World Health Organization, on International Childhood Cancer Day. The package includes a “how-to” guide for policy-makers, ...
Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned. Of these, 400,000 are expected to suffer from severe acute ...
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