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A one-year follow-up analysis of a landmark clinical trial suggests that patients with severe strokes experienced better long-term outcomes after undergoing endovascular thrombectomy compared with medical management alone, ...

The largest study to date to quantify and compare medical and illicit fentanyl use in the United States suggests that illicit use is more than twice as common as medical use.

Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) has a higher prevalence among East Asian women and is characterized by poor clinical outcomes. An interdisciplinary team led by Professor Ruby Yun-Ju Huang at National Taiwan University ...

The Chagas disease parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi) undergoes a major transformation throughout its life cycle to infect humans and other mammals. It alters the types and amounts of proteins in its body to adapt. The factors ...

For people living with diabetes, managing blood sugar can mean constantly watching the clock, keeping meals and medications on schedule and staying alert to changes in glucose levels. While little can be done about timed ...

Imagine the body's immune cells as a neighborhood cleanup crew. When all is healthy, macrophages roam tissues, clearing away cellular debris and helping maintain order. But obesity can turn these normally protective cells ...

Spinach, almonds and sweet potatoes are celebrated as some of the healthiest foods on the planet. But for the millions of Americans living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a new study from the UNC School of Medicine ...

Each person has a unique gut microbial population, with variation shaped by diet, lifestyle and disease. We are seeing a rapid rise in metabolic disorders, obesity and inflammatory diseases that cannot be explained by our ...

Teenagers who are subjected to online bullying are at greater risk of later emotional and behavioral difficulties, research suggests.

As they explore the world, humans and other animals create many memories that they will later recall and that might inform their future actions. Over time, however, some of these memories can be forgotten or become less nitid, ...

Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, may help improve speech and swallowing problems caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a new University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in Nature Communications.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a dangerous virus spread by ticks. It transmits Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a serious disease that has been spreading into new regions worldwide. Capable of killing ...