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Prostate cancer takes a greater toll on Black men than on men of other races. In the United States, one in six Black men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime, compared to one in eight men overall. Black men are also more than twice as likely to die from the disease.

When a parent needs to cook dinner or take a shower, often they will place their baby in a bouncy seat, swing, exersaucer, or similar seating device intended to protect the baby and grant a degree of independence to both the parent and infant. For many parents, these devices represent a helpful extra set of hands; for babies, the freedom to safely explore their immediate surroundings.

A limb length discrepancy is, quite simply, a difference in size between the length of an individual’s arms or legs, and can occur in the upper and lower portions of each. The difference in length can range from a fraction of an inch to several inches.

 AN investigative team from the Zambia Police has seized 72 vehicles and one boat suspected to be proceeds of crime in a private yard in Lusaka West. Police Deputy Public Relations Danny Mwale the property was allegedly at the premises. Mr Mwale said in a statement that motor vehicles include Landcruisers and Prados. “The Police […]

Dry eye disease is a common condition that can cause a range of discomfort. It can happen when the eye doesn’t produce enough tears, or if the tears are not adequate quality to keep the eye properly lubricated.

Public and private sector health officials and public policymakers should team up immediately with community leaders to more effectively disseminate accurate narratives regarding the life-saving benefits of vaccines to counter widespread, harmful misinformation from anti-vaccine activists.

A new study by researchers at Reichman University’s Brain Cognition and Technology Institute directed by Prof. Amir Amedi has shown that visual navigation areas in the brain can be activated using sound. By traversing mazes using sound information instead of visual information after training, visual navigation areas were activated.

A new app developed by scientists at Stanford Medicine and other institutions can detect skin lesions caused by mpox, previously known as monkeypox, in images with an accuracy of 90%, the researchers found in a study. To analyze images, the app uses a type of artificial intelligence that was trained and evaluated on a large data set of about 130,000 images of various skin conditions.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has allowed scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) to produce an accurate picture of the healthy heart in adolescence. Using this advanced technology, the research team was able to determine reference values for anatomical and functional parameters in the heart during adolescence. This information, published in eClinicalMedicine, has direct implications for clinical practice.

Most people think that as the fetus grows in the womb, the mother will be the most important factor influencing the child’s future health, and this factor will undoubtedly prevail over all other possible ones. This belief is widely held in society and much research focuses on the characteristics and behaviors of the mother throughout her pregnancy.