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Iron supplementation did not improve psychomotor development in healthy infants

A clinical study by Swedish scientists has shown that iron supplements are ineffective in optimising psychomotor development in healthy breastfed children

15.05.2024

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Nanoparticles helped deliver a drug directly to the brain

Nanoparticles could be used to deliver drugs to the brain and thereby help patients with neurodegenerative diseases

10.05.2024

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Patient mortality was found to be lower in female physicians

American and Japanese scientists conducted a retrospective observational study and found that female physicians have a slightly lower patient mortality rate than male physicians

30.04.2024

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US doctors neglected new antibiotics in treating resistant infections

US researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study and concluded that despite the availability of recently approved new generation antibiotics, doctors prefer to treat drug-resistant Gram-negative infections with older drugs in almost half of cases

22.04.2024

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General anaesthesia during colonoscopy increased detection of serrated polyps

US researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study and concluded that general anaesthesia with propofol during colonoscopy increases the likelihood of recognising serrated polyps, difficult-to-diagnose precancerous growths of the colon

18.04.2024

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Parkinson's disease significantly alleviated with new antibody

The antibody prasinezumab reduced motor impairment in people with rapidly progressive Parkinson's disease

16.04.2024

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Excess mortality in women undergoing aortocoronary bypass surgery has been linked to anaemia

Low haematocrit during surgery mediated nearly 40 percent of the increased risk

15.04.2024

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US approved oral nonsteroidal therapy for Duchenne myodystrophy

The FDA's decision was prompted by the results of 18-month, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase III trials

02.04.2024

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Streptococcal infection led to gastritis and stomach cancer in mice

Experiments on mice have shown that Streptococcus anginosus causes acute gastritis, which rapidly progresses to a chronic form and causes atrophy metaplasia and dysplasia of the gastric mucosa

21.03.2024

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Doctors have named the foods without which belly fat grows even faster

The endocrinologist warned that when trying to lose weight should not be thoughtlessly cut out of the diet a number of products, in particular, we are talking about those that are rich in fats

15.01.2024

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Engineers have invented a vibrating "pill" that tricks the stomach

The new oral capsule activates when dipped in gastric juice and vibrates to create an illusory stomach distension

25.12.2023

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A project to detect neuromuscular diseases in children was launched in St. Petersburg

About 25 thousand boys aged 12-14 months in St. Petersburg will be examined as part of the first selective screening for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies in the country

23.11.2023

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An extra 3,000 steps a day lowers blood pressure in the elderly

Researchers from the University of Iowa have found out exactly how many steps a day seniors need to take to reduce their risk of hypertension

09.11.2023

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WHO warns of high risk of cholera spreading in the world

World Health Organization predicts new cholera outbreaks in several regions

07.08.2023

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Italy has been hit hardest in Europe by excess mortality due to covidae

The highest number of excess deaths was recorded in Italy, Poland and Germany, while the largest increase in excess deaths occurred in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia

23.07.2024

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Geneticists have found the cause of hearing loss

Scientists from Russia have investigated a rare hereditary form of deafness caused by genetic mutations

09.07.2024

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Canadian scientists banned from investigating cases of unknown neurological disease

In the spring of 2021, the media began writing extensively about a "mysterious" neurological disease discovered in the Acadian Peninsula of the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick, with a population of less than 800,000 people

04.06.2024

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Gene therapy has been proposed to be administered in foam form

US researchers conducted a series of experiments on cell cultures and mice and found that using foam to deliver various gene therapy drugs significantly improves their efficacy and safety compared to conventional suspension

03.06.2024

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Chinese scientists have created a mixture to safely freeze nerve tissue organoids

As reported in the journal Cell Reports Methods, the mixture created allows tissue preservation without disrupting neuronal cytoarchitectonics or functional activity

16.05.2024

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Scientists have identified the gene responsible for cellular aging

In a study, a team of scientists found proteins that regulate the cell aging process

10.05.2024