People with heart rhythm disorders warned over cannabis use
A study of 2.4 million hospitalized cannabis users has found that those with an arrhythmia were 4.5 times more likely to die while in hospital than...
Category: Health
Measuring ventilation to quantify COVID-19 risk
There are many factors that play into models of COVID-19 transmission: How much viral load is present in a person’s cough? What kinds of materials are...
Genetic study sheds light on why people get hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids, also called piles, affect a large portion of the population, for reasons that have mostly remained unknown.
From individual receptors toward whole-brain function
In the brain, more than a hundred molecular substances act as transmitters that control communication pathways between nerve cells via thousands of different receptor types. In...
How philosophy can change the understanding of pain
Dr. Sabrina Coninx from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Dr. Peter Stilwell from McGill University, Canada, have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new...
Newly discovered immune cell function vital to healing
Cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death, is the result of oxygen deprivation as blood perfusion to affected tissue is prevented. To halt the development...
India’s staggering COVID crisis: Government dropped its guard too soon
India reported 314,000 new cases of COVID-19 on April 22, the highest-ever infection tally recorded by any country on a single day.
Reschedule your mammogram: COVID vaccine may lead to a harmless lump in your armpit
Australian women are being asked to think about the timing of breast cancer screening as they prepare to receive their COVID vaccine.
Mitochondria could boost immunotherapy effectiveness
Boosting mitochondrial function in a subpopulation of T cells could make cancer immunotherapy more effective, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the...
Disparate impact of mobility behavior on COVID-19 infection risk for vulnerable communities
Although there is increasing awareness of disparities in COVID-19 infection risk among vulnerable communities, the effect of behavioral interventions at the scale of individual neighborhoods is...
