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Researchers warn about the dangers of vitamin B12 deficiency in people following plant-based diets

In the run up to Veganuary leading researchers are warning of the dangers of a quiet epidemic of vitamin B12deficiencyin people who follow i...

Study uses metabolomics to discriminate drug-induced liver injury phenotypes

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an adverse reaction to ingesting a drug, which can appear both in developmental stages, in their clinica...

Orphanhood decreases with the availability of antiretroviral therapy and male circumcision

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found marked decreases in orphanhood particularly double orphanhood, amon...

Once-a-day antiretroviral medicine for children proven to be more effective at suppressing HIV

A once-a-day antiretroviral medicine that is low-cost and easy for children to take is also more effective at suppressing HIV than standard ...

Growth-friendly surgeries have more complications than spinal fusion in kids treated with severe scoliosis

A Michigan Medicine study found that preadolescent children with severe neuromuscular scoliosis who are treated with growth-friendly surgery...

Higher rates of preeclampsia found among Black women born in the U.S. than foreign-born counterparts

A novel analysis of medical records for a racially diverse group of more than 6,000 women has added to evidence that some combination of bio...

Healthy dietary habits help reduce risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in pregnant women

Obesity is a significant risk factor for developing gestational diabetes mellitus, and an increasing number of pregnant women are overweight...

Successful weight-loss intervention helps lower risk of severe complications from COVID-19

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that among patients with obesity, prior weight loss achieved with bariatric surgery was associated with a 60%...

Black men with prostate cancer may have improved response to radiation therapy than white men

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers leading a meta-analysis of seven randomized trials found an "unexpected result...

Intestinal organoids used to explain why bats infected with viruses do not succumb to diseases

Experiments attempting to explain why bats can be infected with many viruses at a time without succumbing to diseases such as COVID-19-;know...

BNT162b2 booster restores protection following waning of the 2-dose vaccine

Researchers assess the real-world effectiveness of a third booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine against the initial two-dose...

New study targets the methylation profile of microglia from human brain

In the central nervous system, microglial cells play critical roles in development, aging, brain homeostasis, and pathology. Recent studies ...

Combination of rifampicin and resveratrol helps stop dementia, finds study

Dementia is thought to occur when proteins called amyloid-β, tau, and α-synuclein accumulate in the brain and form oligomers. A research gro...