Do certain smells make you feel uncomfortable, even nauseous? Or is your nose so good that you can detect even the subtlest aromas in your favourite wine? Perhaps certain smells evoke negative or positive feelings? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might just be a “super smeller”. Medically known as hyperosmia, super smellers are people who […]
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It’s 2021, and the world has a safe vaccine for COVID-19 as well as drugs to treat the disease. But now, we face a serious problem: How do we make billions of doses of the medicines? Researchers fear that the same issues with supply chains that caused toilet paper shortages at the beginning of the pandemic in the United States […]
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Poland will re-impose compulsory face masks in all public spaces in nine districts, the health minister said on Thursday, as the number of coronavirus infections hit a new record. The restrictions—which will also affect sports and cultural events in those areas, mainly in the south and east—will come into force from Saturday. Face masks are currently obligatory in Poland in […]
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With virus cases rising anew, France is struggling to administer enough tests to keep up with demand. One reason: Many testing labs are closed so that their staff can take summer vacation, just as signs of a second wave are building. Doctors and experts say the vacation crunch is just part of a larger web of failures in France’s testing […]
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Hope for MS sufferers: Experimental drug prevents relapses in nine out of 10 patients with the devastating autoimmune disease, study finds More than 900 patients with a form of multiple sclerosis that comes in a series of relapses and remittances were treated with the experimental drug ofatumumab The drug targets immune B cells thought to contribute to nerve damage in […]
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A newly completed phase 3, multicenter clinical trial has found that an immune-modulating drug can silence inflammatory disease activity in a large majority of patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS)—the most common form of the illness, in which symptoms wax and wane. MS is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the insulating sheaths that […]
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Even for people who carry the gene for early onset Alzheimer’s disease, more years of education may slow the development of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain that are associated with the disease, according to a new study published in the August 5, 2020, online issue of Neurology. About 1-6% of people with Alzheimer’s disease have rare genes that cause the […]
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Contrary to previous media reports, a new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers finds that Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance plans largely favor generic drugs over brand-name counterparts. Published this week in Health Affairs, the study led by Stacie Dusetzina, Ph.D., Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research and associate professor of Health Policy, compared Medicare Part D […]
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Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first U.S. state to use new pandemic technology created by Apple and Google. The COVIDwise app was available on the tech giants’ app stores Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam. It comes nearly […]
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After the coronavirus began spreading in the United States this past spring, telehealth patient rates shot up in response, with some health systems reporting a whopping 4,000% increase in appointment numbers for virtual care. There's no doubt, in many practitioners' minds, that telehealth has filled an existing need both spotlighted and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It's also clear, despite […]
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