Covent Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has confirmed that multiple children in West Texas … More
Measles outbreaks continue to occur in West Texas, so far primarily among those who haven’t gotten the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Yet, you continue to see scientifically unsupported claims that vitamin A can somehow be used to prevent and treat the measles as an alternative to vaccination. So, guess what is…
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Enrollment in individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is growing … More
Enrollment in individual coverage under the Affordable Care…
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It’s no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones.
Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time. In a new study, a team led by The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center just made a major break in the case. New…
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Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and worldwide before the introduction of vaccines in the 1940s. In the decades since, the bacterial disease was nearly eradicated in the U.S., with fatalities falling to double digits each year.
But the disease has made a troubling comeback in recent years as vaccine coverage declined after the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, several outbreaks left public health officials and hospitals scrambling to…
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In today’s interconnected world, infectious diseases pose an escalating threat, as demonstrated by the coronavirus pandemic and outbreaks of H1N1, SARS, Ebola, Zika, and H5N1 (bird flu) viruses — all of which have had significant global health and economic impacts.
But more common viral diseases also contribute to global health challenges and economic costs. For example, seasonal influenza epidemics occur annually, causing a substantial global disease burden and economic losses exceeding…
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At a Medtronic assembly plant in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2014, employees work on a stent graft production line.
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Pacemakers. Insulin pumps. Hearing aids. These are just some of the basic medical devices that hospitals and patients rely on—and that could see higher prices due to President Trump’s tariffs.
Despite months of aggressive lobbying, medical device makers did not get the carveout that pharmaceutical companies did. And with perhaps 40% of all devices manufactured…
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Two plant-based diets were associated with similar survival benefits and low environmental impact, according to research presented today at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2025, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Diet contributes significantly to cardiovascular disease mortality, with estimates indicating that across the European region, one in every five premature deaths could be prevented by an optimised diet.
“In 2019, the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) was…
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Damage to the genetic material of mitochondria — the mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short — can lead to diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Such damage also speeds up the ageing process. However, the cells are normally capable of identifying such damage and reacting.
Scientists from University Hospital Düsseldorf and HHU have — in collaboration with the University of Cologne and the Center for…
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Collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center defines a novel approach to understanding how certain proteins called transcription factors determine which genetic programs will drive cell growth and maturation. The method, called “Perturb-multiome,” uses CRISPR to knock out the function of individual transcription factors across many blood cells at once.
The researchers then perform single-cell analyses on each cell to measure…
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President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, … More
In his State of the Union Address last month, President Trump told Congress that the Department of Government Efficiency had uncovered $8 million dollars allocated by the federal government to “make mice transgender.” There is of course no such thing as a transgender mouse. But there…
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