Adding sleep to seven established metrics could create a stronger tool for predicting heart disease risk among middle-aged and older adults, new research shows.
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Want to lose weight? Have more energy? Live pain-free? Sleep better?
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When it comes to the tipping point for the spread of COVID-19, University of Toronto epidemiologist David Fisman said: “We may have passed it.”
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Researchers at the University of Sydney and University of São Paulo, Brazil, estimate 20 percent of the malaria risk in deforestation hot spots is driven by the international trade of exports including: coffee, timber, soybean, cocoa, wood products, palm oil, tobacco, beef and cotton.
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Despite significant progress against HIV/AIDS, the nation’s capital is still battling an HIV epidemic with rates that are five times higher than the national average. A recent study by Milken Institute School of Public Health researchers at George Washington University uses powerful next-generation sequencing technology to learn more about how the virus is spreading and developing drug resistance in the District of Columbia.
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The Western Australian health minister has announced “fever clinics” are to open this week for people who think they have coronavirus symptoms.
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A deficiency of iron for normal body function is the most common nutritional disorder in the world. Iron deficiency is the main cause of anemia and is associated with poor brain development and long-term impairment of behavioral and cognitive performance in children.
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Regardless of whether we classify the new coronavirus as a pandemic, it is a serious issue. In less than two months, it has spread over several continents. Pandemic means sustained and continuous transmission of the disease, simultaneously in more than three different geographical regions. Pandemic does not refer to the lethality of a virus but to its transmissibility and geographical extension.
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Researchers at the Department of Hepatology of Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine introduced sorafenib to patients with advanced stages of the liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and measured the amount of 16 circulating soluble immune checkpoint proteins. Their data suggest that a high amount of sBTLA proteins may be a marker of overall survival in patients with HCC.
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On 6 March at 11:50 p.m. EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (U.S.). On board were 250 test tubes from the University of Zurich containing adult human stem cells. These stem cells will develop into bone, cartilage and other organs during the month-long stay in space. Professor Oliver Ullrich and Dr. Cora Thiel, the two research leaders at the UZH Space Hub, are testing their innovative concept of human tissue production in weightlessness for the benefit of transplantation medicine and precision medicine and as an alternative to animal experiments.
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