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Cold, flu and COVID-19 symptoms all look similar, so it's ill-advised to self-diagnose. But experts agree that it's probably a good idea to isolate yourself from others while you wait for test results.

(Politecnico di Milano) The researchers have generated scenarios of the Italian infection dynamics resulting from the bulk effect of lockdown lifting, which initiated on May 4. They wondered how the modes of relaxation o...

(Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS)) In the face of the challenges that have emerged and been exacerbated by Covid-19 pandemic, collective responses by and for communities have emerged in Latin Ame...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) "It is well known that most weight-loss dieters reach their lowest body weight after 4-6 months, and are then challenged by the plateau or regain phase, despite c...

(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) How can the course of the corona pandemic and its effects be illustrated? In recent months, dashboards - interactive, graphically depicted online summaries - have become the ...

(European Society of Cardiology) Depression or anxiety in adolescence is linked with a 20% greater likelihood of having a heart attack mid-life, according to research released today at ESC Congress 2020.

(Linköping University) Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken. When the scientists selectively bred the...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Duke-NUS, the only graduate-entry medical school in Singapore, has joined the TriNetX global research network to increase clinical trial adoption and to facilitate better collaboration with othe...

(University of Leeds) 'Ensure long term support is available for COVID-19 survivors.' Healthcare systems around the world need to develop ways of supporting people in the community who are recovering from COVID-19, say r...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) A team of researchers have combined clinical information with large-scale genomic data to successfully link characteristic presentations of childhood epilepsies with specific genetic...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine using MRI scans and computer modeling say they have further pinpointed areas of the human brain that regulate efforts to deal with fatigue.

(Penn State) With a $1.2 million grant from Fondation Botnar, an international team of researchers will assess the feasibility of creating and launching a global-scale artificial intelligence (AI) app for mobile devices ...

(University of California - Davis Health) Despite a significant drop in gun injuries, California has experienced a substantial increase in the state's overall death rate among those wounded by firearms.

(Imperial College London) New research has highlighted a preventative treatment gap in patients prone to bone fractures who are otherwise healthy.

(Kanazawa University) The formation of scar tissue, or fibrosis, as gastric cancer disseminates throughout the peritoneum can be more lethal than the cancer itself and can interfere with chemotherapy. Researchers from Ka...

(Children's National Hospital) Two different interventions both worked to significantly reduce the rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions made by physicians in a telemedicine practice, a new study led by Children...

(West Virginia University) Scientists have known for decades that zinc plays a crucial role in how nerve cells work together to form neural circuits. But they still don't understand exactly what zinc does or how it does ...

(Lund University) Heart failure is an endemic disease affecting 250 000 Swedes. Despite new treatments such as modern medicines and defibrillators, the mortality rate is still high and the prognosis worse than for certai...

(European Society of Cardiology) Many believe that lying down for a snooze is a harmless activity. But today, scientists show that drifting off for more than one hour could be risky. The study is presented at ESC Congres...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) For patients with non-small cell lung cancers marked by RET gene fusions, the targeted therapy selpercatinib was well tolerated and achieved durable objective responses,...

(University of Massachusetts Lowell) Incumbent Edward Markey has opened up a double-digit lead over challenger US Rep. Joseph Kennedy III one week before the Democratic primary in the race for US Senate, according to a n...

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