Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on the changes in metabolism that occur between birth and the presentation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) later in childhood. The researchers discovered that a small number of biochemical pathways are responsible for the majority of…
In a recent review published in the Scientific Reports, a group of authors used a graph-convolutional neural network (NN) to predict and analyze the thermal decomposition products of e-liquid flavors, correlating them with mass spectrometry (MS) data to assess potential health risks. Study: Forecasting vaping health risks through neural network model prediction of flavour pyrolysis reactions….
TOPLINE: Exposure to drinking water contaminated with arsenic below the current regulatory limit is associated with an elevated risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in urban US communities, with the correlation being stronger in women and individuals with a lower body mass index (BMI). METHODOLOGY: US residents are exposed to inorganic arsenic exposure, a potential…
Faster aging is often linked to an unhealthy lifestyle, poor sleep and eating habits, and stress. Researchers have now discovered that discrimination could be a factor that could accelerate aging. Earlier studies have shown that people who experience discrimination based on their identity, which may be their race, gender, weight, or disability, face negative health…
Cybercriminals don’t seem like they will stop using healthcare institutions as target practice anytime soon, as another major organization fell victim to a cyberattack this week. Ascension, a St. Louis-based health system with 140 hospitals across 19 states, detected a hacker’s activity in its systems on Wednesday, it said in a notice posted on its…
Produodopa provides infusion of levodopa-based drug combination to patients Irish patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease are to benefit from a new wearable kit that provides 24-hour treatment for their condition. Health authorities here have granted reimbursement for Produodopa, which uses a pump to release medicine into the bloodstream. The treatment is combination of foslevodopa and…
Telehealth and medical transportation company DocGo reported a data breach in an SEC filing on May 7. The company stated it identified a cybersecurity incident in which consumers’ protected health information was accessed and acquired regarding the company’s U.S. ambulance transportation business. The company said it took steps to contain and respond to the incident,…
Noam N. Levey JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section. The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure, a sometimes life-threatening condition in pregnancy that prompted doctors to hospitalize her….
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LONDON — Novavax, the beleaguered maker of a Covid-19 vaccine, just got a boost of its own. The French pharma company Sanofi on Friday said it had reached a licensing deal to sell Novavax’s Covid shot going forward as well as to try to combine the vaccine with Sanofi’s own flu shot. The pact includes…
