AI platform can identify specific proteins that allow bacteria to infect the intestines

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have created an artificial intelligence platform that can identify the specific proteins that allow bacteria to infect the intestines – a method that paves the way for the creation of smart drugs that will neutralize the proteins and prevent disease, without the use of antibiotics. Participating in the study, which was published in the prestigious […]

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How COVID-19 impacted UK healthcare

Just one-third of people in the UK managed to access the hospital care they needed at the peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic—according to new research from the University of East Anglia. A new study published today looks at the extent to which people managed to access NHS healthcare in April 2020, and as lockdown restrictions eased. […]

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Kim Kardashian Shows Kids' Epic 'Garage' With Mini Mustang, Ferrari and More

The more, the merrier! Kim Kardashian’s four children have many mini cars at their disposal. Beverley Mitchell, More Parents Show Off Their Kids’ Epic Playhouses: Pics “Garage,” the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star, 40, captioned a Saturday, April 24, Instagram photo of the little ones’ epic set-up, from an orange Ferrari to a red Mustang. YouTuber Tana Mongeau called […]

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Weight loss surgery reduces brain pressure in patients with neurological condition

Weight loss surgery is more effective than dieting to reduce brain pressure that can cause blindness in patients with a neurological condition, finds a study led by the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) is a debilitating condition that raises pressure in the brain and can lead to chronic headaches and […]

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France’s Sanofi to help produce Moderna vaccines in US

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Monday that it would help Moderna produce its cutting-edge Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, as it pursues development of its own jab for the virus at home. The company’s production site in Ridgefield, New Jersey, just outside New York City, will carry out “fill and finish” operations for up to […]

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Mental health promotes children’s physical activity during lockdown

According to the Motorik-Modul-Längsschnittstudie (MoMo, Motor Module Longitudinal Study) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Karlsruhe University of Education (PHKA), mental health of children and adolescents decreased during the first lockdown. For children aged between four and 10 years and for girls irrespective of their age, mental health was found to promote physical activity during COVID-induced lockdown in spring […]

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Intellectual property and COVID-19: How can we accelerate vaccination globally?

The gap between the number of vaccines administered in rich countries and in the developing world “is growing every single day, and becoming more grotesque every day,” declared Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), on March 22. The latter statement referred to the fact that only 0.1% of the doses of vaccines distributed in the world […]

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EU launches legal action against vaccine-maker AstraZeneca

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive branch said Monday that it has launched legal action against coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the 27-nation bloc. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been central to Europe’s immunization campaign, and a linchpin in the global strategy to get vaccines to poorer countries. But the slow pace of […]

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