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Belgian health authorities have warned citizens to stop using millions of cloth facemasks distributed by the federal government last year to fight the coronavirus pandemic. A […]
Domenico Arcuri, COVID-19 Extraordinary Commissioner to the Ministry of Economic Development, leaves after a meeting on vaccines in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Arcuri boasted that […]
In this Jan. 21, 2021 file photo, people wait in line for the COVID-19 vaccine in Paterson, N.J. Having trouble booking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment online? […]
Covid-19 has killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide since the pandemic began in December 2019, according to an AFP count based on official figures at […]
AstraZeneca’s boss expressed confidence Thursday that his company can make up a huge shortfall in COVID-19 vaccine doses promised to the EU, in a grilling by […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A computer network closely modeled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Bladder cancer is more aggressive and more advanced in South Texas residents than in many parts of the country, a study by […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to people. But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria and a […]
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By Ernie Mundell and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24, 2021 Officials from both Pfizer and Moderna delivered reassuring news about their COVID-19 vaccines to […]
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A coronavirus variant first identified in California is more contagious than previous forms of the virus and is spreading […]
By Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Feb. 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) Golfing legend Tiger Woods is in the hospital after his car flipped over in a […]
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By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24, 2021 Researchers may have uncovered a key reason some people remain sharp as a tack into their 80s […]
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In African Americans, the genetic risk landscape for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is very different from that of people with European ancestry, according to results of […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Mayo Clinic have combined results from a functional test measuring the effect of inherited variants in the BRCA2 breast and […]
The continent from which humanity emerged got left behind in this giant leap forward, and remains a genetic blank slate compared to Europe or the United […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University’s Ithaca campus have developed a new computational method for studying genetic and environmental interactions […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has discovered several genetic markers associated with bone mineral accrual, […]
Atherosclerosis is a condition affecting the cardiovascular system. If atherosclerosis occurs in the coronary arteries (which supply the heart) the result may be angina pectoris, or […]
A team of scientists led by Benoit Bruneau (left), including Irfan Kathiriya (center) and Kavitha Rao (right), make inroads into understanding what genes are improperly deployed […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exposure to the widely used weed-killer glyphosate makes genetic changes to rats that can be linked to increased disease in their grandchildren […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists at Harvard University, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and MIT have developed a technology to investigate the function of […]