Apple’s Spring Loaded event is due to be streamed online on April 20, when the company is expected to unveil a new iPad Pro, an updated iMac, and more.
What’s in it for us: Added value-based approach towards telehealth
After interviewing various stakeholders from public and private healthcare systems (in Lithuania and the US), researchers Dr. Agne Gadeikiene, Prof Asta Pundziene, Dr. Aiste Dovaliene from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania designed a detailed structure revealing added value of remote healthcare services, i.e. telehealth. Adopting the concept of value co-creation common in business research …
Experts discuss post-acute COVID-19
Many people who have COVID-19 make a full recovery and return to their baseline state of health; however, some people have symptoms or other sequelae weeks or months after initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. These heterogeneous symptoms were the subject of the virtual “Workshop on Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19” hosted on Dec. 2 and 4, 2020, by …
Researchers reveal aging signatures across diverse tissue cells in mice
Researchers have identified molecular signatures of the aging process in mice, publishing their results today in the open-access eLife journal.
Spain plans to open grave containing 33,000 civil war victims
The government of Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has started the process to open up a mass grave containing the remains of more than 33,000 victims of the country’s 1936-39 civil war.
US agency says women can get abortion pill via telemedicine
Women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor’s office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday in the latest reversal in an ongoing legal battle over the medication.
Amoeba biology reveals potential treatment target for lung disease
In a series of experiments that began with amoebas—single-celled organisms that extend podlike appendages to move around—Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have identified a genetic pathway that could be activated to help sweep out mucus from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease a widespread lung ailment.
Closer to human: Mouse model more accurately reproduces fatty liver disease
Human non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a little-understood condition that significantly increases the risk of inflammation, fibrosis and liver cancer and ultimately requires liver transplant.
New assay detects marker of metastatic cancers, infection, trauma and neurological disease
Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research demonstrated the potential of a novel blood test for cathepsin B, a well-studied protein important to brain development and function, as an indicator for a range of disease states.