NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Commonly used osteoporosis drugs were linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia in a large study of older adults.Among a group of 121,492 adults age 60 or older, the use of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates (NBP) was associated with a 16% lower risk … Read more
See the latest measles count for the Pennsylvania outbreak The Washington PostHow hospitals, clinics in Pennsylvania are responding to the measles outbreak ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and VideosPennsylvania Officials Report Fourth Measles Death, as Outbreak Grows The New York TimesPennsylvania teen died of ‘rare and severe’ complication of measles, coroner says The … Read more
Patient recruitment and sample collectionSpecimens were obtained from 20 patients, including histopathologically normal tissue (n = 20, flash-frozen tissue), primary tumour samples (n = 24; 16 FFPE and 8 flash-frozen tissue) and 1–7 metastases per patient (n = 80, flash-frozen tissue). Details of tissue source, location, histology, among other information, for each sample are provided in Supplementary Table 1. Autopsy samples … Read more
The Cumberland County Department of Public Health is investigating after someone at Seventy-First High School tested positive for tuberculosis, potentially exposing more than 250 other people to the disease. County health officials said they were notified about a confirmed case of tuberculosis on Sept. 11 and are working with the North Carolina Department of Health … Read more
Microplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through the soil, a five-year multinational research project has found.The EU-funded project, which has so far resulted in 22 peer-reviewed studies, found microplastics in the soil of all 227 agricultural fields it tested across 11 European countries. The researchers said this poses a global … Read more
Mapping microproteins in the brain might help to understand, and treat, Alzheimer’s disease.Credit: Zephyr/SPLMore than 1,000 previously overlooked ‘microproteins’ have been found in samples of human brain tissue, providing researchers with the most comprehensive database yet to study these hidden molecules inside the brain. Dozens of the tiny proteins showed altered expression in people with … Read more
The small Pacific nation of Fiji has declared a national HIV emergency as it grapples with surging case numbers, partly driven by a growing methamphetamine problem. One in every 60 adults in the archipelago of less than a million people are now estimated to have Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) –– bucking a global trend of … Read more
An investigation into a teen’s death from a “brain-eating” amoeba points to a water feature in Durham as the likely point of exposure. While the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services cannot conclusively determine where the teen was exposed, a state investigation identified a water feature at El Futuro as “the most likely … Read more
The sticky proteins amyloid-beta and tau are hallmark features of Alzheimer’s disease, but they’re not the only contributors to the condition.Another factor implicated in cognitive decline is the chronic activation of specific cells in the brain – namely microglia and astrocytes – which can damage neurons through neuroinflammation.In a new study reported in Translational Neurodegeneration, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A fourth person in Florida has died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to consuming raw or undercooked oysters, health officials said.The death was included Thursday in the Florida Department of Health’s updated fatality count for the deadly flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus.The individual was from Broward County … Read more