Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Many children suffering ongoing COVID symptoms

More than 20% of children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand are experiencing significant persistent health symptoms following COVID-19 infection, according to a new Otago-led study.

Surgery

Researchers find disparities in organ allocation

In 1954, the world's first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and scientists had correctly theorized ...

Genetics

Gene for enzyme in saliva associated with type 2 diabetes

Nutrition scientists have been working to understand the relationship between type 2 diabetes and genes that express a salivary enzyme that breaks down starch, but many conflicting studies have led to few clear answers.

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