A study featuring the participation of Fisabio (Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of Valencia Region), dependent on the Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública, has found that the predominant lineage in Europe of gonococcus—the bacterium which causes gonorrhea—is resistant to one of the two drugs, among others, most commonly used today to treat this disease. […]

Esophageal cancer is the seventh most common cancer world-wide and a lethal malignancy causing a considerably high number of deaths. There is currently no promising method for prevention, early detection, or screening of esophageal cancer so most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, which is associated with a poor prognosis. The most common treatment for esophageal cancer patients is […]

A new type of COVID test is set to be available from November for Australians to use at home. It promises an alternative to rapid antigen tests (RATs), which we’re familiar with. It also promises a faster and more convenient option than PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests performed in a lab. The distributor is marketing the new product as a […]

Consuming higher levels of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is associated with larger hippocampal volumes and better abstract reasoning in healthy middle-aged adults, new research shows. Dr Claudia Satizabal The results suggest the brain-boosting benefits of omega-3 PUFAs begin in midlife, lead study author Claudia L. Satizabal, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Texas, San Antonio, […]

Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) has announced a new, care-changing test designed by its physicians to monitor inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract by painlessly collecting samples while the patient remains awake and alert, saving patients more costly and invasive testing that includes having to receive anesthesia. “I began this project when I joined Children’s Colorado in 2007,” said pediatric […]

HEALTH NOTES: We drink less often (but still get drunk) Britons are drinking alcohol far less often than they were a decade ago, a new survey suggests. Fewer than one in 20 say they drink wine, beer or spirits daily, according to a poll of 1,032 Britons by medical tech company Allurion. Polls conducted a decade ago estimated this figure […]

Canada’s pharmaceutical supply has become highly dependent on imports, leading to calls to increase domestic manufacturing in the long term and to manage vulnerable supply chains better in the short term. The pandemic worsened an already fragile supply of medicines in Canada, write Shoo K. Lee, MBBS, PhD, principal investigator of the Maternal-Infant Care Research Center, and co-authors in an […]

New research from Yale Cancer Center reveals a higher risk of cancer mortality in incarcerated adults, as well as among those diagnosed with cancer in the first year after release from prison. The findings are published in the journal PLOS ONE. “Cancer is the leading cause of death among people in prison, accounting for about 30% of all deaths, and […]

In Sweden, the key to the successful implementation of precision medicine in health care has been the bottom-up approach where academia and health care have joined forces to build a national infrastructure. Forty-two authors from the Clinical Genomics platform at SciLifeLab and Genomic Medicine Sweden, GMS, summarizes the work in Nature Medicine. Together, Clinical Genomics and GMS have established an […]

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