Invoking Betteridge’s law of headlines, I predict this will turn out to be correlation without causation.
medicine
2023-10-19 @ 12.23.37 ∈ In English
2023-10-03 @ 18.33.30 ∈ In English
Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer
It is almost two years to the day since the first vaccine - called RTS,S and developed by GSK - was backed by the WHO. […] The WHO said the effectiveness of the two vaccines was "very similar" and there was no evidence one was better than the other. However, the key difference is the ability to manufacture the University of Oxford vaccine - called R21 - at scale.
2023-09-19 @ 15.28.48 ∈ Suomeksi
Itsensä mittaaminen | Äkkikuoleman riskin voisi tunnistaa urheilukellolla tai älysormuksella
”Sydänperäisen äkkikuoleman riski voidaan arvioida parin minuutin leposykkeestä sykevälivaihtelun perustella jopa tarkemmin kuin perinteisellä kardiologisella rasituskokeella”, sanoo Monicardi-hankkeen johtaja, fysiikan professori Esa Räsänen.
2023-09-14 @ 17.43.40 ∈ In English
“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases
More work is needed to study […] pGal compounds in humans, but initial phase I safety trials have already been carried out in people with celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that is associated with eating wheat, barley and rye, and phase I safety trials are under way in multiple sclerosis.
2023-09-13 @ 15.40.49 ∈ In English
New Blood Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has 91% Accuracy
Applying the AI algorithm, the test could accurately classify 91 percent of patients, and could even differentiate between mild, moderate, and severe ME/CFS patients with 84 percent accuracy. Further studies to validate the findings in larger cohorts will take some time.
2023-09-04 @ 17.57.29 ∈ Suomeksi
2023-09-02 @ 16.16.39 ∈ In English
Hundreds of Tough Mudder racers infected by rugged, nasty bacterium
Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event—a very muddy obstacle course race—held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like symptoms, nerve pain, and other symptoms, local health officials and media outlets report.
2023-08-28 @ 19.00.02 ∈ In English
‘Oh my God’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
2023-08-23 @ 16.42.53 ∈ In English
Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial
“The JCU trial provides sufficient proof of concept that infection with live hookworms is safe and appears to have some sort of beneficial effects on people’s metabolic health, which will hopefully be confirmed by future clinical trials designed to confirm efficacy and explore how hookworms influence metabolism[.]”