Most pandemics start when a pathogen spreads from animals to humans. It's a leading explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic: The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is a cousin of coronaviruses that live in bats.
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A new study finds that a class of oral and intranasal medications known as gepants may be an effective and well-tolerated treatment for vestibular migraine (VM). The findings are published in the journal Otolaryngology–Head ...
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Some psychedelics, psychoactive substances that alter people's mood, perceptions and mental processes, were recently found to be promising alternative treatments for some mental health disorders. The substance that has attracted ...
A recent study from researchers at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California San Diego developed and validated a new way to measure changing social norms around ...
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As a child and adolescent development researcher with a social work background, University of Delaware Assistant Professor Jin Yao Kwan understands how true the familiar proverb "it takes a village to raise a child" is for ...
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The eye disease known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) can make infants permanently blind if they are not treated. But there are big differences in how often Norwegian hospitals actually provide this treatment. "These ...
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A study conducted at the University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital suggests that factors related to maternal weight are reflected in signaling particles produced by the maternal microbiota not only in the gut but also ...
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