Category: 5. Health

The hospitalization last summer of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with West Nile virus — and his account of it this week in the New York Times — have helped raise public awareness of the dangers of mosquito borne-illness, which can… Continue Reading

As tools powered by artificial intelligence increasingly make their way into health care, the latest research from UC Santa Cruz Politics Department doctoral candidate Lucia Vitale takes stock of the current landscape of promises and anxieties. Proponents of AI envision the technology helping to… Continue Reading

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to synthesize artificial chains of TNA, which is inherently more stable than DNA, advances the discovery of… Continue Reading

Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a proposal to allow Medicare to expand its coverage of home health care for older Americans. The Democratic presidential nominee announced this plan on the television talk show “The View.” Harris explained that she aimed to take the burden off… Continue Reading

Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg © 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP The Federal Trade Commission and Congress are ramping up efforts to rein in what they view as drug patent evergreening, a term referring to the continuing extension of patent rights on… Continue Reading

Growing pains are common in maturing children, but sometimes this growth can be irregular and cause injury. Discoid lateral meniscus (DLM), a misshapen knee cartilage, is one such occurrence that can degenerate into osteochondritis dissecans, a joint disorder where the bone and joint begin to… Continue Reading

In a rare, longitudinal study, researchers from Aalto University and the University of Oulu tracked one person’s brain and behavioral activity for five months using brain scans and data from wearable devices and smartphones. ‘We wanted to go beyond isolated events,’ says research leader Ana… Continue Reading

What can stressed yeast teach us about fundamental processes in the cell? A lot, according to scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The team studies, among other topics, how cells adapt to stress — such as nutrient deprivation. One of their favourite test subjects is… Continue Reading

All cells within the same cancer are not the same. They all have genetic errors that turn them into tumour cells, but these errors are not identical. In each cancer, there are populations of cells with different mutations, and it is important to know each population, because one of them can… Continue Reading

A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences has identified an RNA molecule that is important for skin wound healing. The research, published in Nature Communications, may have implications for the treatment of hard-to-heal wounds. The study… Continue Reading