Can That Daily Cup of Joe Save You From Liver Disease?
Coffee drinkers had a lower risk of chronic liver disease and death due to chronic liver disease compared to non-coffee drinkers, U.K.…
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Bats Harbour Viruses Which can Transmit to Humans
While previous research has investigated viruses carried by bats in several different countries, none have focused on Switzerland.
Researchers from the University of Zurich investigated viruses carried by more than 7,000 bats living…
Coffee Lowers Risk of Chronic Liver Disease
Of all participants included in the study, 78% (384,818) consumed ground or instant caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee, while 22% (109,767) did not drink any type of coffee. During the study period, there were 3,600 cases of chronic…
Antibody disease enhancement of COVID-19 does not appear to occur in animal models: The finding in…
In the fight against viruses, antibodies have the potential to either block infection or enable infection and make the disease worse, leading to concern about their use as a therapy for COVID-19.
In a study published in the journal Cell,…
Cassava Sciences Selects Clinical Research Organization for Phase 3 Clinical Program in Alzheimer’s…
AUSTIN, Texas, June 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cassava Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAVA), a biotechnology company focused on Alzheimer’s disease, today announced the selection of Premier Research International as its clinical research…
Investigational Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Effects in Inherited Early-Onset Disease
Gantenerumab significantly improved tau and other Alzheimer's disease biomarkers, but showed no evidence of cognitive benefit in a small study…
Innovative mouse model pumps new blood into study of pediatric heart disease
Severe childhood restrictive cardiomyopathy is a condition that causes the muscles in the walls of the heart to become stiff, so that the heart is unable to fill properly with blood. A mutation in a protein called BAG3 is known to result in…
Unraveling the origin of Alzheimer’s disease: Researchers find new hints that could explain…
Case Western Reserve University researchers studying prions -- misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases -- have identified for the first time surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain.…
Children with asymptomatic malaria a ‘hidden risk’ to disease control efforts: Study in…
The role of people infected with malaria without showing symptoms presents a hidden risk to efforts to control the disease after they were found to be responsible for most infections in mosquitoes, according to a study published in The…
How do you cope when you get the disease that killed your mother?
Saalfield says her late mother, a dancer who performed with the Australian Ballet Company, was on her mind throughout the making of the album because of what she was going through.The title Mood Valiant, for starters, is a tribute to her…