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Researchers have analyzed cause-of-death data for 24 countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers found that life expectancy declined in 2020 for all but four of the 24 included countries, with the US experiencing the largest decline of 2.1 years for males. In 2021, most countries experienced further declines in life expectancy, with females in Bulgaria and males in Latvia experiencing the largest losses of over two years.

Can simple diet and lifestyle changes keep your brain healthy? Do you have the power to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia or lower your MS risks?

An investigational therapy is demonstrating preclinical promise against non-Hodgkin lymphoma by boosting natural killer cells and efficiently annihilating the malignancy without toxicity to the patient, a team of cancer biologists in France has found.

POLICE have unearthed a plot to allegedly harm President Hakainde Hichilema using black magic. Two people among them a Mozambican have since been arrested while a brother to former Petauke Member of Parliament Emmanuel Banda is on the run. Jasten Candune, a Mozambican and Leonard Phiri have been apprehend after being found in possession of […]

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Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking. The research is published in eBioMedicine.

A new paper from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers is helping to reveal the “rules” for engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) Tregs.

Bone is a highly vascularized tissue, and the link between angiogenesis -blood vessel formation- and bone healing has long been discussed by the scientific community, with several studies describing the impairment of bone healing because of lack of or diminished angiogenesis. Traditional approaches like grafting often result in complications due to an inadequate vascular supply to implants, leading to poor integration and necrotic tissue.

The economic impact of dental caries (tooth decay) is disproportionately higher in the most deprived groups, with estimated per-person costs of approximately £18,000 in the UK that could be dramatically reduced with targeted preventative measures, found new research.

An international research team, including researchers at Karolinska Institutet, has mapped the genes expressed in the brain cells of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The atlas, which is presented in the journal Neuron, is hoped to contribute to more personalized treatment of MS in the future.

What does it take to design a new needle for medical use? When the needle needs to be much thinner and sharper than any commercially existing needle and designed to deliver treatments to a previously inaccessible tissue, the answer is years of collaboration between a close-knit team of physicians and engineers.