Category: 4. Health

But a new artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Nevada and Virginia Tech is making that task a lot easier — and potentially bringing big relief to allergy sufferers.

“With more detailed data on which…

Is there a link between legalizing cannabis and committed illegal behavior? This is what a recent study published in JAMA Network Open hopes to address as team of researchers in Canada investigated how legalizing cannabis across Canada has how cannabis is used. This study has the potential to help scientists, legislators, and the public better understand the benefits and risks of legalizing cannabis and whether it increases or decreases cannabis…

The pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk…

That is the message of a new peer-reviewed study, published in the Annals of Medicine (Elevate), that found smoking and other vices are associated with declines in health in people as young as 36.

The impact is even greater when these bad habits are indulged in over the long-term, state experts whose study tracked the mental and physical…

A twice-yearly injection of a drug known as Sunlenca offered 100% protection against HIV among young women and girls in South Africa and Uganda, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Over 5,000 girls participated in the…

An artificial intelligence model could assist the clinician in X-ray analysis by helping to identify subtle details and boosting the efficiency of the diagnosis process. But because so many possible…

The scientists found that Eato — a fruit-fly protein whose counterparts in mammals were already known for helping brain cells get rid of harmful fats — actually has a much bigger job. It not only protects neurons (brain cells), from being destroyed, but also increases the efficiency by which other cells, called…

The proof-of-concept study, published today in Science, introduced a mechanism called ‘GlycoCaging’ that releases medicine exclusively to the lower gut at doses up to 10 times lower than current therapies.

“With this technique, we have the ability to deliver not just steroids, but a range of drugs including anti-microbial compounds…

Findings published today in the peer-reviewed journal Temperature, also revealed that deaths from heatstroke are more common in men of working age and identified the states that are hotspots for deaths from heatstroke and…

Scientists first reported in 2016 that specific gut microbes known as commensal bacteria, which cause no harm and often contribute to host health, set off production and release of a gut-originated T cell that drives up body-wide…