January is National Blood Donor Month. It is a time to celebrate the lifesaving impact blood donors have made towards supporting this life-sustaining process for many individuals. It is also a time to encourage more people to donate blood and to spread mo ...
January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. The National Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC) and other groups focus on issues and awareness relating to cervical cancer, HPV disease, early detection and prevention, and overall cervical health. Screening and p ...
COVID-19 vaccines launched BioNTech and Moderna into the limelight, making these once little-known companies prominent companies. But neither wants to be pigeonholed as a COVID-19 vaccine company. BioNTech cofounder Özlem Türeci stressed in a recent in ...
NIH-funded research project develops app to track eye movements in response to videos. A mobile app was successful at distinguishing toddlers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from typically developing toddlers based on their eye movements wh ...
A large study of children has uncovered evidence that behavioral problems in children who snore may be associated with changes in the structure of their brain’s frontal lobe. The findings support the early evaluation of children with habitual snoring (sno ...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disorder that encompasses a range of symptoms. Scientific evidence suggests that there are likely many factors that contribute to the disorder – certain genetic variations have been associated with ...
Although extremely rare, Parkinson’s-like symptoms have occurred in a few people with COVID-19. This phenomenon has researchers investigating whether there is a link between SARS-CoV-2 and Parkinson’s disease. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, sc ...
New study suggests that some of the same genetic variants that help to predict reproductive aging are associated with frequency and severity of hot flashes Hot flashes are a hallmark of the menopause transition. Yet, they don't strike with the same frequ ...
Again and again, the new coronavirus has sloughed off small chunks of its genome, leading to changes in a viral protein that is frequently targeted by antibodies. When evolution snips out a stretch of an organism’s genome, the change is calle ...
Significant racial and ethnic differences in diagnostic imaging rates exist among children receiving care in pediatric EDs across the United States, Jennifer R. Marin, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital of Pittsbu ...
