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While usage varies significantly by country, millions of people around the world use psychotropic medications, particularly depression treatments like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac. Scientists have found that SSRI users who had COVID-19 had less severe infections and were less likely to develop long COVID compared to those not using SSRIs. These antidepressants could help protect people from serious infections and sepsis,…

If you or a relative has been admitted to the hospital through an emergency department (ED) recently, chances are you spent many hours waiting lying on a gurney before arriving at an inpatient bed. This is called emergency department boarding—where admitted patients are…

The findings, published in Nature Communications, tested two candidate drugs derived from their studies on the mechanism of the brain effects of rehabilitation, of which one resulted in significant recovery in movement control after stroke in the mouse model.

Stroke is the leading cause of adult…

The prevailing theory on the origin of cancer is that an otherwise normal cell accumulates genetic mutations that allow it to grow and reproduce unchecked. This paradigm has driven large-scale cancer genome sequencing projects, such as The Cancer…