Bicycling is a great way to stay active and enjoy the outdoors. Whether you’re a recreational rider or a daily commuter, it’s important to protect your hands and wrists. Dr. Sanj Kakar, a Mayo Clinic […]
Disrupted care during the COVID-19 pandemic led to sharp increases in other non-COVID causes of illness and death, particularly mental health disorders, malaria in young children, and stroke and heart disease in older adults, finds […]
Updated threshold values of preoperative serum calcitonin predict different extents of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), according to a study published in the August issue of JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & […]
Forensic pathologists play a unique role in monitoring and responding to public health threats and advancing our understanding of human disease and injury, according to a new review article published July 3 in The New […]
In 2021, Congress temporarily boosted the value of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and expanded the maximum credit, for the first time, to families with no or little income. This policy change cut child poverty […]
As antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” make infections trickier to treat, some in the medical community are turning to bacteriophages for backup. Also known as phages, these viruses exclusively target bacteria, allowing them to tackle bacterial infections when […]
Researchers at McMaster University, Cleveland Clinic and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how a protein long associated with Alzheimer’s disease helps lung cancer spread to the brain—a discovery that offers hope that existing Alzheimer’s […]
A new study by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reveals that joint tissue from patients with early-stage rheumatoid arthritis often have high levels of a protein called granzyme used by the […]
Alcohol consumption is widely known to affect decision-making, but a recent study led by researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso found that the extent of that impact may have something to do […]
Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have developed mouse models that survive premature death and enable pre-clinical testing of alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), a devastating and sometimes fatal neurological disorder that affects about one […]
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