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Preeclampsia’s Elevated Leptin Levels Trigger a Cardiovascular Cascade that Puts Both the Mother and the Unborn Child at Risk

Preeclampsia’s Elevated Leptin Levels Trigger a Cardiovascular Cascade that Puts Both the Mother and the Unborn Child at Risk

Critical supply chain issues with nutrition and oxygen can cause premature delivery or even death before a baby is ever born, raising the risk of…
COVID Forecasting Method Shows It Can Reliable Guide US Cities Through Pandemic Threats Using Hospital and Cell-phone Data

COVID Forecasting Method Shows It Can Reliable Guide US Cities Through Pandemic Threats Using Hospital and Cell-phone Data

According to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have accurately…
Understanding the Complex Biology of Some Psychiatric Disorders Using a Stem Cell Model

Understanding the Complex Biology of Some Psychiatric Disorders Using a Stem Cell Model

In order to map illness risk variations in human neurons, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai used an unique stem cell…
Everyone Benefits When Vaccination Efforts are Disproportionately Concentrated on the Populations Who are Least Fortunate

Everyone Benefits When Vaccination Efforts are Disproportionately Concentrated on the Populations Who are Least Fortunate

In order to maximize the health benefits for everyone, a new study highlights the necessity to increase vaccination campaign funds for disadvantaged, vulnerable populations. In…
A Rapid Test Kit to Assess Immunity to COVID-19 and its Variants

A Rapid Test Kit to Assess Immunity to COVID-19 and its Variants

A quick test kit that determines whether a person is immune to COVID-19 and its variants based on the antibodies found in a blood sample…
Treatment of Ischemic Stroke is More Effective and Less Expensive After Switching to a Newer Clot-Busting Medication

Treatment of Ischemic Stroke is More Effective and Less Expensive After Switching to a Newer Clot-Busting Medication

According to a recent study that was just published in the journal Stroke of the American Stroke Association, tenecteplase, a newer generation clot-busting medication, outperforms…
Spread of Prion-Based Disease is Driven by Protein Aggregate Size, Not By Protein Abundance

Spread of Prion-Based Disease is Driven by Protein Aggregate Size, Not By Protein Abundance

Although the devastating and incurable Mad Cow disease and its human counterpart Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been absent from the news for years, scientists have not…
Spinal Cord Injury and Parkinson’s Disease May Be Treated Using Implantable, Ultra-Thin Material

Spinal Cord Injury and Parkinson’s Disease May Be Treated Using Implantable, Ultra-Thin Material

Thanks to a recent breakthrough technology created by a research team from Griffith University and UNSW Sydney, flexible implanted electronics are one step closer to…
A Special Light-Sensing 3D-Printed Device Might Benefit Lupus Patients

A Special Light-Sensing 3D-Printed Device Might Benefit Lupus Patients

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ engineering and medical teams have created a novel 3D-printed medical gadget that detects light directly on the skin and…
Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier is Affected by the Magnetic Field from an MRI

Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier is Affected by the Magnetic Field from an MRI

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) can be opened using MRI-guided focused ultrasound in conjunction with microbubbles, allowing therapeutic medications to enter the sick brain area. It…
In MRI Breast Cancer Screening, Prediction Models may Reduce False-Positive Results

In MRI Breast Cancer Screening, Prediction Models may Reduce False-Positive Results

According to a recent study published in the journal Radiology, prediction models based on clinical traits and imaging results may help lower the false-positive rate…
A New Study Reveals Potential Applications of Ultrasound in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

A New Study Reveals Potential Applications of Ultrasound in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

Imagine passing an exam and believing that your achievement had more to do with the socks you were wearing or the quantity of cookies you…
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