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By pairing digital tools with tailored HIV services delivered by community health workers and clinicians, a study has reduced new HIV cases by 70% in rural Kenya and Uganda. This successful strategic implementation of existing ...
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Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique. With ultrasonic brain stimulation, she was able to influence whether ...
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Consuming a greater proportion of nutrients from plant sources may aid management of psoriasis symptoms, according to a study published online Feb. 19 in the European Journal of Nutrition.
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In the early phases of depression and psychosis, patients often show altered inflammatory markers in the blood and structural changes in the gray matter of the brain. This was demonstrated in the international study entitled ...
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