Patrick Mahomes plays professional football, and his wife Brittany Mahomes is a former pro soccer player, so it makes sense that their kids would inherit a love of sports — and their son Bronze, who will turn 1 year old in November, is already showing interest in the game. But the game isn’t football, and […]
TOPLINE: Levetiracetam is more effective than is lamotrigine for initial monotherapy in female patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) but not for those with other idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) syndromes, a new study has found. METHODOLOGY: The multicenter retrospective study included 543 mostly White women of childbearing age with IGE according to International League Against […]
What is a public health issue? Disease outbreak, malnutrition or reproductive health might come to mind. One global issue that one might not think of, however, is discrimination; in particular, discrimination in times of disease outbreak or pandemic. Now, a Japan-based team of researchers has explored how this disease-related discrimination varies across countries. Such discrimination […]
Bindi Irwin’s daughter Grace is looking a whole lot like her daddy these days. Bindi’s mom Terri Irwin took to Instagram to share a few sweet selfies the 25-year-old took with her 2-year-old, that they look thick as thieves and cute as could be. “I love my girls.❤️,” Terri captioned the carousel of photos. In […]
A leading automation company powering life sciences labs, has raised $40m to accelerate its rapid growth and industry presence across the US, UK and EMEA. Scientific organizations are increasingly focused on the speed and flexibility of their experimentation and data collection. This is happening at the same time as they struggle to find laboratory real […]
COVID patients exhale high levels of virus the first eight days As part of a study, researchers studied the viral load with those presenting with symptoms of a Covid infection. Around 348 people, who had previously been vaccinated or infected with Covid, were found to have a viral load that peaked a few days after […]
Retiring soon? You may be excited to welcome the year 2019 as you look forward to spending your life in leisure. You don’t have to work anymore to pay your bills. However, you might want to make sure the savings you have can sustain you not just throughout the year but the rest of your […]
A 12-year-old girl discovered she had a deadly disease after a chance encounter with a ginger Labrador puppy. Evelyn Thomsen had been experiencing numbness and tingling in her foot before she noticed part of her leg begin to swell after pet Labrador Hazel landed on her. When this continued to happen her mother, Lisa Reimer, […]
A study of more than 130 hospitalized adults with transient new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) found that 1 in 3 patients experienced a recurrent episode of AF within a year of hospitalization—a rate approximately 7 times higher than in matched control participants. These findings suggest that oral anticoagulation therapy may be warranted in these patients. The […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools are becoming increasingly common in healthcare and beyond. A new study compared AI tools to human radiologists and found that radiologists were superior to machines at identifying conditions from X-rays. The researchers reported that the more complicated the diagnosis, the more strongly human experts performed compared to AI […]
