• Digging deeper into how vaccines work against parasitic disease

    Updated: 2023-08-31 19:05:21
    Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Digging deeper into how vaccines work against parasitic disease August 31, 2023 Ohio State University Scientists have established the effectiveness of vaccines they developed to prevent the disfiguring skin disease and L . mexicana vaccines were published Aug . 29, 2023, in the journal iScience   Leishmaniasis is prevalent in 90 countries affecting about 12 million people globally at any given time , but no licensed human vaccine yet exists and the only drug treatment for the skin lesions requires weeks of daily injections with unpleasant side effects. The more lethal visceral leishmaniasis affects organs and is fatal if left untreated.  In developing these live attenuated

  • Kindergarten conduct problems could cost society later, researchers find

    Updated: 2023-08-31 13:43:57
    , Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Kindergarten conduct problems could cost society later , researchers find August 31, 2023 Penn State A new economic analysis has linked , for the first time , conduct problems among kindergarten students with significant costs to society in terms of crime and associated medical expenses and lost productivity when they are . adults “Providing effective , evidence-based programming designed to address behavioral problems early on has the potential to improve students†well-being in the long term,” said project collaborator Damon Jones , associate research professor in the  Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center  (PRC “This study implies that there could be an

  • #MedEd: How Doctors Use Social Media to Advance Medicine

    Updated: 2023-08-31 13:38:36
    : Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search MedEd : How Doctors Use Social Media to Advance Medicine August 31, 2023 UC San Diego Monthly MedEd posts to X are on the rise as health professionals use social media to learn and teach the art of medicine . Image courtesy of John W . Ayers Ever wonder what your doctor is doing on social media A new study published in  JAMA  led by  John W . Ayers Ph.D . from  the Qualcomm Institute within the University of California San Diego finds some physicians are harnessing the reach of social media to share and debate medical . advancements The research team obtained all posts containing MedEd made to X , formerly Twitter , from January 2012 through December 2022. There were

  • High blood and urinary metal levels among marijuana users

    Updated: 2023-08-30 22:49:38
    Skip to content Menu Follow us on Threads Our Bloggers Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search High blood and urinary metal levels among marijuana users August 30, 2023 Columbia University Research conducted at  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health  detected significant levels of metals in the blood and urine among marijuana users , concluding that marijuana may be an important and under-recognized source of lead and cadmium . exposure This is among the first studies to report biomarker metal levels among marijuana users and most likely the largest study to date , that links self-reported marijuana use to internal measures of metal exposure , rather than just looking at metal levels in the cannabis plant. The results are published online in the journal 

  • Researchers Dispute High-Profile Discoveries of Cancer Microbes

    Updated: 2023-08-29 20:23:35
    Three studies in elite journals found that tumors are littered with microbes. But several teams have been unable to replicate the work. (Source: NYT Health)

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