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Can the fight against AIDS recover?
The Bush Institute’s Eric Goosby has said that US’ President Donald Trump’s executive orders are likely to have an adverse effect on HIV policy reforms. However, he added, the US Congress needs to authorise PEPFAR for another five years so that the programme can complete its mission and so that countries, organisations and funders can…
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Parkinson’s symptoms are improving in stem-cells trials
A study by researchers at Scripps Research in California found that three Parkinson’s patients, who had undergone the first-ever stem cell transplant, have survived and are safe one year after surgery. “Some got slightly better…others didn’t get worse,” the researcher said. The stem cells were transplanted to 18 sites across the putamen in both hemispheres…
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Stem cell therapies might be the key to new medical developments in Japan
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that there was a placebo effect in a trial on regenerative therapies for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The research examined nine double-blind, randomised trials of regenerative therapies and found that an improvement of 4.3 points on the MDS-UPDRS part IIIOFF score was reported in one year…
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The first vaccine advisory meeting is set to start after delays
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on vaccination practices, which had been scheduled to be held in February, has been postponed. “ACIP agenda items are always subject to change depending on what Working Groups have ready for consideration,” an official said. The committee’s independent advisors will hear from CDC staff on…
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Perspective on Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers have found that familial Alzheimer’s patients had signatures of viral processes and infection in the olfactory bulb. “We showed that familial Alzheimer’s patients actually had signatures…in the bundles of nerve fibres that run to these smell centres in the brain, compared with healthy individuals,” researchers said. In 2010, they had demonstrated that amyloid- exerts…
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The future of Alzheimer’s treatment
Researchers have discovered that Alzheimer’s disease patients’ brain tissue shows swelling of neurons with swollen lysosomes spilling waste into the brain in both mice and brain tissue. Researchers said the bulging neurons are a sign that the cells’ lysosomal system is dysfunction, which causes waste to accumulate inside cells, ultimately killing them and spilling ready-made…
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The researchers in the US should break their outrage addiction
Researchers at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government have created a new initiative to help researchers in their training cope with mental-health challenges. The initiative aims to reduce the stigma faced by early-career researchers by improving mental-health literacy, encouraging peer-support networks, and creating structures across the research enterprise to take responsibility for mental health.
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There are 5 observations from new research about A.D.H.D
Doctors and scientists have raised concerns about the ongoing research into the multimodal treatment ofAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (A.D.H.D). “I’ve invested 35 years…trying to identify the causes of A.D.H.D., and somehow we seem to be farther away from our goal than we were when we started,” an A.D.H.D researcher said. The research was one of…
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Nature’s guide to what’s next was the subject of a bunch of lawsuits
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) responded to lawsuits filed by the state attorneys and scientific body Nature over its decision to cancel research grants. “NIH continues to provide support for biomedical research that has a direct impact on human health,” it said. This comes after President Donald Trump’s administration cancelled $400 million research grant…
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Nature’s guide to what’s next was the subject of a bunch of lawsuits
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) responded to lawsuits filed by the state attorneys and scientific body Nature over its decision to cancel research grants. “NIH continues to provide support for biomedical research that has a direct impact on human health,” it said. This comes after President Donald Trump’s administration cancelled $400 million research grant…
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Tonka bean trees survive lightening strikes that kill their competitors
Researchers at Germany’s Humboldt University have said that bean trees can survive a hit from a lightning bolt, but the impact kills off competitors outside of the tree. Surviving the strikes could result in a 14-fold increase in seed production over the tree’s lifetime, researchers estimate. They also said thatbean trees won’t die due to…
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New treatments will make insomnia go away
Johnson & Johnson is working on a drug to treat depression and insomnia. In a Phase III trial, participants who took the drug experienced meaningful improvement in both sleep and depressive symptoms, with an antidepressant effect that seemed to be independent of the participants getting better sleep. The drug is part of a new class…
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The secrets of sleep can be unlocked
A University of Rochester researcher has said, “Sleep in humans facilitates brain clearance, so it’s not just our story or our hypothesis.” Maiken Nedergaard said that people who report six hours or less of sleep a night are more likely to develop dementia. She added that this is important because if there is more than…
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2 children die from the disease in Texas, due to the trade war
A four-year-old US boy has died of measles, marking the second death due to the disease amid the ongoing trade tensions between the US and other countries. The boy’s family said he had been diagnosed with the disease when he was two months old. He is the fourth child who has died of measles in…
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2 children die from the disease in Texas, due to the trade war
A four-year-old US boy has died of measles, marking the second death due to the disease amid the ongoing trade tensions between the US and other countries. The boy’s family said he had been diagnosed with the disease when he was two months old. He is the fourth child who has died of measles in…
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On top of that, the HHS has been ordered to reduce spending on contracts
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts. The cuts apply to all divisions of HHS, which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. “These spending cuts will weaken public health in…
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Is social media bad for teens’ mental health?
A new study has found that small effects of “rude measures” like self-reported screen time are found in public-health studies. However, the researchers said that the type of small effects is not unusual in public- health studies based on crude measures, such as self-reported screen time. They argue that the effects are often masked when…
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Many federal health workers are losing their jobs
The US National Institute for Health recently cancelled over a hundred research grants funding HIV and AIDS research in the past few weeks, according to a Nature analysis. The CDC is losing its HIV prevention office as part of the restructuring. The Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and…
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There have been a lot of firings at federal health agencies
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired over 100 executives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to Nature. The firings include several NIH directors as well as executives at the Food and Drug Administration. “These reductions in the workforce will have a profound impact on key NIH administrative functions…[and]…will…
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Thousands of jobs were cut by the Trump administration
The US Health and Human Services (HHS) has said it plans to cut 20,000 jobs as part of an effort to cut $2 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. “This is about getting rid of waste, inefficiency and duplication,” it said. “The American people shouldn’t have to pay for this destruction of our…
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The antibiotic targets thebacterial ribosome
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada have discovered an antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria, even strains resistant to commercial drugs. Further rounds of screening, genome sequencing and structural analysis revealed that the bacterium produces a molecule which belongs to a group of peptides that form a lasso-shaped knot. The molecule…
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Immune cells bandage wounds
neutrophils play an important role in wound healing and elasticity of the skin of wild-type and TgfbrN mice. They were characterised by atomic force microscopy and were found to be present in skin of wild-type control and TgfbrN mice. The skin of wild-type control and TgfbrN mice was characterized through hematoxylin-eosin staining.
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How bad could it get with measles in the US?
Researchers from Denmark found no difference in autism diagnoses between vaccinated and unvaccinated children during a study of over six lakh children born in the country between 1999 and 2010. The researchers combined those data on measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines with data on autism spectrum disorder diagnoses. Denmark has one of the highest…
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It is an attack on science everywhere in Trump 2.0
Thousands of US scientists held a protest against President Donald Trump’s executive orders on research funding at federal agencies on February 20, the day that Trump took office. The protest, which was attended by 250 students and researchers, was the first of its kind in the US. Scientists had gathered outside the US Department of…
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The rotating crown is new to the watch
OnePlus has announced the OnePlusWatch 3 with sleep tracking and 60S health check-in feature. The OnePlusWatch3 will be available for sale in India from March 9. The OnePlusWatch 3 comes with a bicym battery that can last up to 120 hours on a single charge. Further, the 60S health check-in feature will let users get…