Brushing your teeth is essential for maintaining optimal oral health, but like most aspects of health, the full story is more complicated. As directors of the Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia, we know firsthand that inequalities exist when it comes to oral health, including in children. Some people or groups have considerably more oral health problems than others […]

Portugal: Omicron subvariant drives spike in Covid-19 cases We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Despite the unprecedented success of the coronavirus vaccine, Covid’s unpredictability has made […]

Chaos at union behind nursing strike: Royal College’s council faces vote of no confidence after damning report into its toxic, male-dominated culture Royal College of Nursing leaders will face vote of no confidence on 29 November Vote is in response to a damming external report into culture among senior staff The report found bullying and potential sexual exploitation of junior […]

Researchers use deep neural networks, or DNNs, to model the processing of information, and to investigate how this information processing matches that of humans. While DNNs have become an increasingly popular tool to model the computations that the brain does, particularly to visually recognize real-world “things,” the ways in which DNNs do this can be very different. New research, published […]

New research has revealed elevated risks of death during the COVID-19 pandemic for both COVID-19–positive and other patients on hemodialysis compared with hemodialysis patients treated in 2019. The findings will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2022 November 3–November 6. The study relied on data from 63,216 patients undergoing hemodialysis in 2019–2020 at NephroCare centers of 23 countries in European […]

Older people may be able to boost their working memory with a new approach that couples online therapeutic games with a non-invasive brain stimulation technique. Working memory is critical for people to function well in everyday life. This volatile form of memory holds and manipulates a finite amount of information over a short time interval, enabling people to interact with […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic said on Friday that an analysis of bubbles that formed in vials of BionTech-Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shot revealed no indication of risk. Swissmedic said the batch in question can still be used for vaccinations and there is no risk to anyone who may have already been vaccinated. It added that it would continue […]

A recent study soon to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2022* suggests that hearts from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-positive (COVID-19+) donors may be safe for transplantation. Small case series have shown the success of heart transplantation from COVID-19+ donors, but the impact of COVID-19 status of the donor is not known at a national level. […]

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers at Emory University, Stanford University, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases evaluated whether bivalent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) boosters conferred protection against new Omicron subvariants. Study: mRNA bivalent booster enhances neutralization against BA.2.75.2 and BQ.1.1. Image Credit: NIAID Background Two new subvariants of severe acute respiratory syndrome […]

Aneurysms are weaknesses in the venous walls that require immediate attention, as they can result in the ballooning and bursting of the blood vessels. This critical medical situation is often treated using catheter-delivered blocking agents. The blocking agents are delivered into the vessels to stop blood flow in the affected area until the vessel wall can heal. The blocking material […]