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Decoding the cryptic connection between the brain's architecture and our consciousness

Imagine an alien spacecraft landing on Earth, a mysterious entity unlike anything ever seen before. Now, envision our brain as an intricate spaceship, and the researchers in the COST Action The neural architecture of consciousness (NeuralArchCon) as brilliant engineers determined to crack its inner workings.

19 Mar 2024

How national political ambition could fuel, or fail, initiatives to protect abortion rights in states

In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock 'n' roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering campaign to put a constitutional amendment to voters this year to legalize abortion in the state.

19 Mar 2024

COVID-19 knocks down scoring skills in footballers, study shows

Study investigates the technical performance of football attackers post-COVID-19, revealing significant changes in key performance indicators and suggesting a quick recovery to pre-pandemic levels, with elite players experiencing less impact.

18 Mar 2024

AI tool can convert doctors’ notes into accurate lay language

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool can convert the text of doctors' notes summarizing patients' hospital visits into accurate lay language, a new study found.

13 Mar 2024

Parental touch can relieve acute procedural pain in neonates and parents' anxiety

The Neuroimaging Group, at the Department of Paediatrics, in collaboration with Bliss, the charity for babies born premature or sick, has launched a new suite of information resources for parents of neonates, designed to make them feel more confident about being involved in the care of their babies.

13 Mar 2024

Acute malnutrition raises risk of malaria treatment failure in young children

Children with acute malnutrition across Africa and Asia have a higher risk of treatment failure and malaria reinfection, even after being given the best currently available and recommended malaria treatment.

13 Mar 2024

Wristwatch-like devices detect early signs of Alzheimer's

Monitoring daily activity patterns using a wrist-worn device may detect early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

11 Mar 2024

Study reveals the impact of olfactory disorders on personal safety and emotional well-being

More than a third of people who self-identify as having a smell disorder have had at least one gas safety scare in the last five years, according to new research.

11 Mar 2024

New study aims to reduce bias in AI health prediction models

Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have opened the way for the creation of a huge range of new healthcare tools, but to ensure that these tools do not exacerbate preexisting health inequities, researchers urge the use of more representative data in their development.

7 Mar 2024

Common age-associated changes in the blood found to be a risk factor for acute kidney injury

A U.S.-Canadian research collaboration led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center has identified common, age-associated changes in the blood as a risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI), which occurs in more than 1 in 5 hospitalized adults worldwide.

7 Mar 2024

New animation series launched to improve parental understanding of brain development in premature infants

Professor Caroline Hartley, Principal Investigator, and Dr Marianne van der Vaart, Postdoctoral Researcher, in the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group at the Department of Paediatrics, have today launched a series of animations aimed at improving parental understanding of brain development in premature infants, and the effect it has on breathing and apnoeas (the cessation of breathing).

7 Mar 2024

MGI Tech and Eurofins Genomics Partner to Elevate Precision Health with Revolutionary DNBSEQ-T20×2 Sequencer and Related Technologies

MGI Tech, a company committed to building core tools and technology to lead life science, today proudly announced a milestone collaboration with Eurofins Genomics Europe Genotyping A/S (“Eurofins Genomics”), which has placed a corporate order of the revolutionary DNBSEQ-T20×2 (“T20”) ultra-high throughput sequencer, along with the genomics data center ZTRON Appliance and a range of MGI’s state-of-the-art laboratory automation products and systems.

From MGI 6 Mar 2024

Robotic hip exoskeleton could be a promising avenue for stroke rehabilitation

More than 80% of stroke survivors experience walking difficulty, significantly impacting their daily lives, independence, and overall quality of life.

4 Mar 2024

Cross-cultural study reveals commonality and variation in mental representations of music

When listening to music, the human brain appears to be biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios -; for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals (forming a 1:1:1 ratio).

4 Mar 2024

Exercise improves health and fitness in schoolchildren, study finds

A study led by researchers from the UGR's Department of Physical Education and Sports, in collaboration with pediatricians from the Paediatric Endocrinology Unit of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada and external national and international partners, has shown that schoolchildren who exercise improve their physical fitness and health.

4 Mar 2024

Clinigen launches 'What is Possible?' campaign to expand access to rare disease treatments

Clinigen, the global pharmaceutical services company, today launched a new campaign called ‘What is Possible?’ to help empower patients and medical professionals to ask what more is possible in the treatment of rare diseases.

4 Mar 2024

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Alabama’s IVF ruling still making waves

Reverberations from the Alabama Supreme Court's first-in-the-nation ruling that embryos are legally children continued this week, both in the states and in Washington.

29 Feb 2024

UW researchers find similarities between diabetes and Alzheimer's protein clusters

Of the 38 million Americans who have diabetes at least 90% have Type 2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

29 Feb 2024

Innovative in-vehicle sensing system helps detect cognitive decline in older drivers

An estimated 4 to 8 million older adults with mild cognitive impairment are currently driving in the United States, and one-third of them will develop dementia within five years.

29 Feb 2024

Hospital privatization leads to lower quality care, study reveals

A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatized typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been published today in The Lancet Public Health (video summary available in the notes section).

28 Feb 2024

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Decoding the cryptic connection between the brain's architecture and our consciousness

How national political ambition could fuel, or fail, initiatives to protect abortion rights in states

COVID-19 knocks down scoring skills in footballers, study shows

AI tool can convert doctors’ notes into accurate lay language

Parental touch can relieve acute procedural pain in neonates and parents' anxiety

Acute malnutrition raises risk of malaria treatment failure in young children

Wristwatch-like devices detect early signs of Alzheimer's

Study reveals the impact of olfactory disorders on personal safety and emotional well-being

New study aims to reduce bias in AI health prediction models

Common age-associated changes in the blood found to be a risk factor for acute kidney injury

New animation series launched to improve parental understanding of brain development in premature infants

MGI Tech and Eurofins Genomics Partner to Elevate Precision Health with Revolutionary DNBSEQ-T20×2 Sequencer and Related Technologies

Robotic hip exoskeleton could be a promising avenue for stroke rehabilitation

Cross-cultural study reveals commonality and variation in mental representations of music

Exercise improves health and fitness in schoolchildren, study finds

Clinigen launches 'What is Possible?' campaign to expand access to rare disease treatments

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Alabama’s IVF ruling still making waves

UW researchers find similarities between diabetes and Alzheimer's protein clusters

Innovative in-vehicle sensing system helps detect cognitive decline in older drivers

Hospital privatization leads to lower quality care, study reveals

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