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Medical centers around the world could significantly reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by turning off MRIs and putting them in the lowest power mode instead of idling them when not in use, a new study in Radiology found.

Fighters have occupied a national public laboratory in Sudan holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.

A new resource has been launched by a team of psychologists at the University of Bath aiming to help young people living with cancer-related fatigue (CRF).

Researchers have found that males on reduced calorie diets showed greater fat loss and improvements in blood sugar levels compared with females.

Scientists have proposed a theory for how cancer cells might actively adapt themselves to the immune system to become resistant to immunotherapy, a study published today (April 25) in eLife reports.

When a patient experiences the first symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, the disease has been developing for a long time, and the patient may have already lost half of a specific type of nerve cells in the brain.

Blood flowing through the blood vessels carries oxygen, nutrients and waste around the body. Obstruction of a blood vessel in our body can cause severe organ damage. In particular, retinal vascular occlusion (RVO) is a common cause of visual impairment. Although several conventional vasodilators and thrombolytic agents have previously been considered as treatment, their clinical applications to vascular diseases are limited mainly because of slow reaction time and lack of precise control of their actions, noted the research team.

A recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland suggests that regular leisure-time physical activity, even in small doses, is associated with lower odds of depression, anxiety, chronic stress, and school psychologist visits among Finnish adolescents. However, the relationship between active school transport, i.e., walking or cycling to school, and mental health remains inconclusive. The findings were published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports.

Health care professionals (HCPs) report lacking materials and training to conduct advance care planning (ACP) among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online April 17 in the Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences.

For patients with multiple myeloma (MM), there has been an improvement in prognosis since 2000, but mortality still remains elevated, according to a study published online April 6 in BMC Cancer.