University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists are harnessing the mind-bending potential of quantum computers to help us understand genetic
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Novel imaging application illuminates processes in cancer, COVID-19 and other diseases
Medical images for a wide range of diseases, including coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), can now be more easily viewed, compared, and
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Light scattered by thrombocytes can improve the treatment of cardiovascular diseases
A team of scientists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University used Raman spectroscopy to study the thrombocytes of patients with
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‘Tough year’ for measles and other infectious diseases in US
This year, the germs roared back. Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that
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New PACK training tackles common diseases in developing countries
An educational outreach training package has shown to be effective for improving management of respiratory diseases in Brazil, raising hopes
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Half of WHO-recommended policies to reduce chronic diseases are not put into practice
The first analysis of WHO-recommended policies to prevent and control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) finds that implementation is slowly improving, but
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Four studies look at global burden of digestive diseases
(HealthDay)—Global burdens of colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and stomach cancer increased from 1990 to 2017, according
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New technique to identify a common cause to TMA diseases for which there is a treatment
There is a group of diseases whose symptoms have a common origin: a lesion in the endothelial tissue that covers
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New approach to pain treatment in diseases of the pancreas
One of the worst symptoms associated with inflammation or cancer of the pancreas is severe chronic pain. Pancreatic pain is
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Undiagnosed diseases program finds novel genetic variant
The Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently found a previously unknown genetic variant that is
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