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BANJUL (Reuters) – The deaths of 69 children from acute kidney injury in Gambia is linked to four cough syrups made in India and imported into the West African country via a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, the Gambian police said in a preliminary investigation report on Tuesday. World Health Organization (WHO) investigators had already found “unacceptable” levels of diethylene glycol and […]

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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated whether the time of day at which coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients receive their severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations influences the vaccine effectiveness (VE). Study: BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS IN COVID-19 VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS. Image Credit: BaLL LunLa/Shutterstock Background Circadian rhythms are biological function oscillations that occur regularly […]

A study published in the journal Environmental Pollution has found an association, in children aged 9‑12, between exposure to air pollutants in the womb and during the first 8.5 years of life and alterations in white matter structural connectivity in the brain. The greater the child’s exposure before age 5, the greater the brain structure alteration observed in preadolescence. The […]

Poor broadband provision is associated with people living with a number of health conditions and urgent care needs, a study published today (November 2, 2022) has found. This whole local population level observational study is the first to link data on broadband provision with health data at a defined health economy population level. It used data for all residents of […]

Researchers from the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, were able to identify a new approach for the therapy of colorectal cancer (CRC) as part of an interdisciplinary project of the LOEWE Center Frankfurt Cancer Institute (FCI). In preclinical models as well as in studies on human immune cells, they found that urolithin A, a metabolite product of the pomegranate, […]

Doctors find nose ring of man, 35, lost five years ago lodged IN HIS LUNG after taking him for X-ray over fears severe cough was sign of pneumonia Joey Lykins, who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, found his lost nose ring in his lung He was rushed to the ER last month with what doctors feared was pneumonia But scans revealed […]

A targeted therapy for children with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) was shown to significantly reduce relapse rates when tested in a large multicenter clinical trial conducted by the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) and led by pediatric oncologists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. By combining the targeted antibody-drug conjugate […]

Fake it ’til you make is true for children too, it turns out: Young girls embracing the role of a successful female scientist, like Marie Curie, persist longer at a challenging science game. A new study, appearing Sept. 28 in the journal Psychological Science, suggests that science role-playing may help tighten the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math […]