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News
What Does It Mean For Abortion To Not Be a Constitutional Right?
Mortality and reproductive health care will be affected by state abortion laws.
Affordable Genomics Leading to ‘Millions of Tests per Year’
California-Based Genomics Startup Secures $600 Million in Funding to Deliver $100 Whole Human Genome with Its New High-Throughput, Low-Cost Sequencing Platform
A window into the body
Researchers at UCI salivary bioscience institute are championing the use of spit in diagnostics
What Health Care Supplies Might We Run Out of Next?
From the pandemic to geopolitical conflict, supply chain disruptions strain health care.
New liquid biopsy test found to be highly accurate, sensitive for both NASH and liver fibrosis
Researchers have created a liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, to test for major liver diseases. The test was found to be highly accurate, sensitive, and specific for both NASH and liver fibrosis. For the first time, a non-invasive test will allow for the determination of staging of both diseases without recurring to invasive liver biopsy.
Neuroscience simulations at NERSC reveal the origin of the cortical surface electrical signals
Where does electrical activity recorded on the surface of the brain come from, and what exactly determines which electrical signals get recorded?
What Is Needed to Ensure Telemedicine Is Truly Equitable?
While studies have shown that telemedicine has improved access to care for some, roadblocks remain.
A retail giant now has primary care clinics at stores in five states
Walmart’s Health and Wellness Chief Discusses Retail Giant’s Move to Healthcare/Telehealth Provider, a Step with Implications for Clinical Laboratory Testing
Mosaic loss of Y chromosome increases risk for heart failure and cardiac fibrosis in men
Why a condition that frequently occurs in aging men, in which an increasing number of hematopoietic cells display a loss of the Y chromosome, is associated with increased risk of mortality and age-related diseases is now a little clearer, thanks to work in mice.
New material for surgical dressings can be heated to kill melanoma cells but not other cells around it
Scientists from the University of Nottingham have combined graphene oxide, elastin, and ethanol to develop a new method to make this material conductive so it can be heated to kill melanoma cells but not other cells around it. The research has been published in Advanced Functional Materials.
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