By discovering a trick the hepatitis C virus uses to evade the immune system, scientists have identified a new antiviral defense system that could be used to treat many virus infections, according to new research published today in eLife. Viruses have many strategies to avoid immune system defenses. They often do this by hijacking the immune system’s own proteins. One […]
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A cheap steroid drug is the first effective treatment for the new coronavirus, COVID-19, researchers have found. Dexamethasone, an inexpensive and widely-available steroid, helped save the lives of seriously-ill COVID-19 patients in a large, 6,000-person study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford. The drug helped to reduce coronavirus-related deaths in people on ventilators by one-third, and by one-fifth […]
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Parents/carers of children aged 4-10 years of age reported that over a one-month period in lockdown, they saw increases in their child’s emotional difficulties, such as feeling unhappy, worried, being clingy and experiencing physical symptoms associated with worry, according to early results from the Co-SPACE study, asking parents and carers about their children’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis. Over […]
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Of the thousands of species of bacteria that live in the digestive tract, scientists know how only a handful of them directly influence human health. Now, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University have discovered a group of gut bacteria that can metabolize enough cholesterol to potentially affect people’s metabolism. Their new study, published today […]
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Population-wide testing, contact tracing, and isolation (PTTI) in the UK could save 50,000 lives and £700bn of GDP over the next two years, finds research co-led by UCL, University of Edinburgh and University of Haifa. The non-peer reviewed, pre-print study uses mathematical and economical models to investigate 31 scenarios for tackling COVID-19 in the UK over the next two years […]
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Cholesterol – a waxy substance found in your blood – can be both beneficial and harmful to your body. Your body needs cholesterol to build healthy cells, but high levels of cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease. This is because high cholesterol causes fatty deposits to develop in your blood vessels. READ MORE How to live longer: Best […]
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Research out today identifies traits among high-risk adolescents associated with increased risk for gun use. Among high-risk adolescents, those with greater callous-unemotional traits were more likely to carry a gun and to use a gun during a crime over a four-year period following an initial arrest, according to a study published online in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Callous-unemotional traits […]
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Woman, 29, who was sick up to five times a day recalls the relief of finally being diagnosed with cyclical vomiting syndrome Miranda Spencer from London, had cyclical vomiting syndrome from age of 12 Condition difficult to diagnose as barely even heard of and gets misdiagnosed CVS causes recurrent and prolonged attacks, usually five or six times an hour The flower-arranging […]
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Did hospital kill this mother with too much paracetamol? Doctors blamed mother-of-two’s death on sepsis but months later her husband made a shocking discovery Laura Higginson, from Cheshire, passed away in April 2017 at the age of just 30 She was admitted to Whiston Hospital in Prescot with suspected pneumonia Husband Antony discovered she had been given a staggered overdose – […]
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New Rochester research indicates some neurons may be more adept than previously thought in helping you perceive the motion of objects while you move through the world. The findings may have implications for developing future prosthetics and for understanding some brain disorders. Our brains use various reference frames—also known as coordinate systems—to represent the motion of objects in a scene. […]
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