China’s Covid chaos could trigger doomsday variant that sends world back to square one in fight against pandemic, experts warn Projections suggest up to one million people could die in coming months Experts warn it could lead to a new strain emerging and spreading globally READ MORE: China faces ‘thermonuclear’ wave of Covid, experts warn […]
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The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells, a team of scientists led by Duke Health report. The finding, publishing online Dec. 21 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, […]
Osteoarthritis is a common, chronic disorder causing pain and disability among older adults. Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a well-known risk factor for osteoarthritis regardless of body mass index. Metformin, the current leading type 2 diabetes medication, has shown the potential to improve insulin sensitivity, fight inflammation, and protect joints. Researchers from Taiwan, China, and […]
Imagine messaging an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot about a missing package and getting the response that it would be “delighted” to help. Once the bot creates the new order, they say they are “happy” to resolve the issue. After, you receive a survey about your interaction, but would you be likely to rate it as […]
Claudia Conway is letting the world know who she is, and there’s one thing that’s certain: She is not walking in her controversial parents’ footsteps. During a recent interview with Bustle, newly 18-year-old Claudia — daughter of Kellyanne Conway, the political consultant known for getting Donald Trump elected to the United States presidency in 2016, […]
(Reuters) -Roche Holding AG said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved its monoclonal antibody for treating COVID-19 in hospitalized adult patients. The intravenous anti-inflammatory drug, Actemra, is a monoclonal antibody that reduces inflammation and was approved in 2010 to treat rheumatoid arthritis. It is the first FDA-approved monoclonal antibody to […]
A new study has found that people over the age of 85 and those of lower socioeconomic status are the most likely to miss NHS appointments, with common reasons including transport issues, forgetfulness and family commitments. The research, published in the Journal of Health Organization and Management, found that age was found to be strongly […]
Researchers from the Division of Neurogeriatrics, NVS, have published an article in EMBO Molecular Medicine that describes their active vaccination study in a mouse model with inherited small vessel disease called CADASIL. Their goal is to investigate whether vaccination can repair damaged vessels by clearing them from toxic protein Notch3 aggregates. These aggregates are present […]
The spinal cord links and allows communication between the brain and peripheral organs, coordinating the movement and the sensation of the body. The spinal cord formation begins around embryonic day 9 (e9) in mice. During development, the neural tube generates 11 types of neural progenitors along the dorsal ventral axis. Subsequently, these cells differentiate into […]
