Medical

1+ hour, 8+ min ago   (91+ words) Home visits have anchored Ghana’s primary healthcare system for nearly a century, since the Public Health Nursing Service was established by the Ministry of Health in 1928. Trained nurses and community health officers walk door to door, delivering vaccines, antenatal support,…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago   (703+ words) For people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the slow failure of the muscles that control breathing is the disease’s most feared complication. Non-invasive ventilation, delivered through a snugly fitted mask, has long been the standard of care, offering a documented…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (256+ words) Editor’s note: This is an automatically generated transcript, which has been slightly edited for clarity. Please notify [email protected] if there are concerns regarding accuracy of the transcription. Going back to our discussion about promising therapies in the pipeline, the phase…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago   (89+ words) People with Down syndrome face a markedly elevated risk of obesity and its metabolic complications compared with the general population, yet the biological reasons behind this vulnerability have remained frustratingly opaque. Now, a team of French researchers has traced part…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (482+ words) Jaundice remains one of the most common clinical challenges faced by neonatal intensive care units around the world, and nowhere is that challenge more acute than in the care of infants born preterm. A research article published in the Journal…...

5+ hour, 45+ min ago   (636+ words) A rare and devastating genetic condition known as Diarrhea-9 has long frustrated scientists trying to understand exactly how it destroys the newborn intestine....

5+ day, 22+ min ago   (844+ words) New hybrid bright-dark field computational imaging doubles digital pathology resolution, reduces artifacts, and boosts AI cancer screening sensitivity without costly upgrades. Digital Pathology Resolution Enhanced by Hybrid Bright-Dark Field Imaging Hybrid bright-dark field computational imaging enhances digital pathology resolution CHENGDU,…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (34+ words) HERE’S WHY IT ACTUALLY MATTERS I THOUGHT VITAMIN K WAS OPTIONAL. THEN I LEARNED WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT IT. WHEN MY COUSIN HAD HER BABY LAST YEAR, THE NURSE …...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago   (34+ words) Doctors call it acquired savant syndrome. Fewer than 30 cases exist, and researchers think it points to something dormant …...

7+ hour, 21+ min ago   (94+ words) A large single-centre study from Germany has delivered an uncomfortable verdict on one of interventional cardiology’s long-standing safety rituals: the routine placement of a femoral protection wire during transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation, or TAVI. According to the analysis of…...