Category: 4. Health

Children with disorders of consciousness rely on those caring for them to provide all aspects of their daily living, including hydration, nutrition, washing and dressing.

There is currently a lack of tools to assess consciousness in children aged between two and 18 and assessing awareness in…

Biological ageing refers to the gradual deterioration of cells and tissues in the body that…

The researchers, led by UVA’s Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, previously identified a possible mechanism by which the drugs could prevent Alzheimer’s. That promising finding prompted them to analyze two of the nation’s largest health insurance…

TIL therapy is a live cell treatment where a patient’s tumor is surgically removed and sent to a lab where it is dissected to remove the immune cells that have found…

The protective effect was enhanced by delivering the antibody in a nasal spray that disperses these molecules throughout the respiratory tract, where they stick to the slippery mucus lining to lie in wait for invading viral…

In recent years,…

The findings may have implications for early-onset cancer prevention and screening efforts, the researchers noted.

Early-onset cancers, defined in this study as those diagnosed in individuals under age 50, are rising in incidence…

In glaucoma, the optic nerve is gradually damaged, leading to vision loss and, in the worst cases, blindness. High pressure in the eye drives the disease, and eye drops, laser treatment or surgery are therefore used to…

However, five years later, SARS-CoV-2 is still circulating, and in the process, evolving into new variants that require updated vaccines to protect against them.

But it takes time to design, manufacture, and distribute a new vaccine, which raises an important question: How can scientists create vaccines for versions of the virus that…