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Why does Covid-19 infect and ill adults while it seems to spare younger children...
Lung disease experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and...
COVID-19 : Analysis of more than 90 autopsies reveals many new details about...
Pathologists at The Mount Sinai Hospital, at the epicenter of the COVID-19 global pandemic, have prepared one of the largest, most comprehensive analysis of...
Cancer cells are comfy havens for bacteria
Cancer cells are comfy havens for bacteria. That conclusion arises from a rigorous study of over 1,000 tumor samples of different human cancers.
The...
How dangerous is coronavirus for current and former cancer patients?
New research shows how dangerous the coronavirus is for current and former cancer patients. Those who developed COVID-19 were much more likely to die...
Alzheimer’s disease : Nilotinib appears to aid in the clearance of accumulated beta-amyloid plaques...
A Georgetown University Medical Center clinical trial investigating the cancer drug nilotinib in people with Alzheimer's disease finds that it is safe and well-tolerated,...
Altered mental state and strokes are the most common neurological symptoms associated with coronavirus...
A study by University of Cincinnati researchers and four Italian institutions reviewing neuroimaging and neurological symptoms in patients with COVID-19 may shed light on...
Silent symptomless COVID-19 infection may be much higher than thought
The prevalence of 'silent' symptomless COVID-19 infection may be much higher than thought, reveals a study charting the enforced isolation of cruise ship passengers...
Le forti convinzioni radicate possono accecarci alle informazioni che le mettono alla prova
Quando le persone sono molto fiduciose in una decisione , prendono informazioni che confermano la loro decisione, ma non riescono a elaborare le informazioni che la...
Strong beliefs entrenched can blind us to information that challenges them
When people are highly confident in a decision, they take in information that confirms their decision, but fail to process information which contradicts it,...
REPORT: la vera percentuale di falsi negativi nei test diagnostici COVID-19
Uno degli strumenti diagnostici più comunemente usati, in particolare durante questa pandemia, è il test di reazione a catena della polimerasi della trascrittasi inversa...
Report: The true percentage of false negatives in COVID-19 diagnostic tests
One of the most commonly used diagnostic tools, particularly during this pandemic, is the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction test (RT-PCR), which uses a...
Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm do not benefit from taking a common antibiotic drug...
A new landmark study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that patients with a vascular condition, called abdominal...
Lumefantrine is a potential novel approach for glioblastoma management
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive form of cancer in the brain that is typically fatal. But new findings by VCU Massey Cancer Center...
First demonstration that surveillance by immune cells of the lens in response to injury...
The lens of the eye is an unusual organ. Unlike most of the body's organs, blood vessels don't reach the lens. If they did,...
Even people with minor illness from the coronavirus can develop antibodies that could leave...
Even people with minor illness from the coronavirus can develop antibodies that could leave them immunised for several weeks or more, according to an...
