A new study from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University suggests that fecal transplants could be used as a treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology found that fecal transplants in patients with NAFLD result in a reduction in how easily pathogens and […]
A new study has identified how ketamine can combat difficult-to-treat depression. New research has revealed the specific parts of the brain that ketamine affects when doctors use it to treat people with difficult-to-treat depression. The study, which appears in the journal Translational Psychiatry, may open the door to new therapies in the treatment of depression. […]
Giving coronavirus patients remdesivir early may prevent deadly lung damage, suggests study that showed it blocked respiratory disease in monkeys Giving six macaque monkeys infected with coronavirus remdesivir early prevented severe lung disease responsible for many COVID-19 deaths The six that got the treatment showed no signs of lung disease but those that did not […]
The first documented cases of U.S. household cats infected with COVID-19 have emerged in New York state, a new government report shows. Two cats—one in Nassau County, the other in Orange County—appear to have contracted COVID-19 from the humans with whom they lived, a team of veterinarians reported online June 8 in the Morbidity and […]
One in five Australian mothers is not receiving critical perinatal mental health checks, a University of Queensland study has found. School of Public Health researcher Dr. Katrina Moss and her team found older mothers (about 35 years old and over) are 35 per cent less likely to be screened for perinatal mental health, and women […]
The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. Already, more than 6.9 million people globally have become infected with the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2 – 184.294 of them in Germany. 400,000 people have already died of Covid-19. Thuringia ended contact restrictions in favour of the recommendations In Thuringia, due to the Corona pandemic, adopted, contact, restrictions on […]
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients at a New York City medical facility had higher rates of kidney complications than other COVID-19 patient groups in different areas of the U.S. and other countries, according to a new study from researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian. The study, using data from electronic health records and published […]
The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. Already, more than 6.9 million people have been infected worldwide with the novel pathogen, Sars-CoV-2 – 184.294 of them in Germany. 400,000 people died from Covid-19 already. All messages to the Corona-crisis in Germany, Europe and the world, you will find in the News Ticker of FOCUS Online. […]
When I was told I had cancer again, I wept and howled like an animal: Author GILES ANDREAE shares his story of sadness and hope… and says no man should be too embarrassed to seek help for the symptoms of bowel cancer Never have I lost control of myself quite so violently as when I […]
Scientists have found that a specific type of ovarian cancer could possibly benefit from existing platinum-based chemotherapy and new DNA repairing treatments, following better testing. The study, led by researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, is published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and was funded by St Luke’s Institute […]
