A woman wearing a face mask carries a child as they walk at a public park in Beijing, on June 1, 2023. China reported Thursday, July 6, 2023 that 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File China reported Thursday …
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every year in Belgium, 1,600 people wait for a transplant. Of these, in 2021, only 939 received an organ. Thus more than 40% of patients often have to wait more than a year before hoping to receive a transplant. When a transplant is possible, it is essential to ensure its success …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The time of year when eggs are collected from women’s ovaries during fertility treatment makes a difference to live birth rates, according to new research published today in the journal Human Reproduction. Researchers in Australia have found that transferring frozen then thawed embryos to women’s wombs from eggs collected in the …
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New insights explaining why some children have a longer remission than others after having cutting-edge CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia have been revealed by researchers at UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The collaborative research project, published today in Nature Medicine, combines expertise in novel immune therapy …
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Millions of older Americans experience cognitive decline that’s significant enough to interfere with their financial skills, but despite this reality 75% of these individuals continue managing their own money. According to a new study published in JAMA Network Open, cognitive decline can lead to overconfidence, memory problems and deficits in decision making—all of which can …
Fans of singer, comic and actor Jamie Foxx have been concerned for his health since he was rushed to hospital earlier this year. Updates on how the star is doing or what caused his hospitalization have remained scarce, and he has not been seen in public ever since. Here is everything we know about Foxx, …
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Season 3 of The Witcher builds out the high-fantasy world of the Continent, with its countless monsters and continually clashing kingdoms, even further. Thanks to the events of previous seasons, it seems like pretty much everyone is hot on the trail of Geralt, Yennefer, and especially Ciri, the prophesied princess-turned-wannabe-Witcher whose elder blood seemingly holds …
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Endometriosis is linked to a reduction in fertility in the years preceding a definitive surgical diagnosis of the condition, according to new research published in Human Reproduction. In the first study to look at birth rates in a large group of women who eventually received a surgical verification of endometriosis, researchers …
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain According to a May 2023 study published in Chronobiology International, night owls—people who go to bed later and wake up later—possibly die earlier than those who operate during the earlier portions of the day. That mainly because those who are up late are more at risk of developing unhealthy habits, Finnish …
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Global efforts to reduce infectious disease rates must have a greater focus on older children and adolescents after a shift in disease burden onto this demographic, according to a new study. The research, led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, has found that infectious …
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