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Manual Cleaning of Medical Instruments Exposes Staff to Contaminated Fluids
Findings reinforce importance of engineering controls and appropriate PPE use to reduce contamination risks
UK hospital study explores whether monkeypox can be transmitted through aerosolized droplets and fomites
Researchers conducted an observational study to determine environmental contamination with the monkeypox virus in the hospital isolation rooms of monkeypox patients to understand potential exposures to healthcare workers
Ancient Viral Remnants in the Human Genome Are Active in Normal Tissues
Presence of endogenous retrovirus RNA in non-diseased tissues could affect use as a cancer biomarker
ACR TI-RADS, deep learning algorithm offer alternative strategies for evaluating thyroid nodules
According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), ACR TI-RADS and a deep learning algorithm trained on adult populations offer alternative strategies for evaluating thyroid nodules in children and younger adults, including guiding decisions to perform fine-needle aspiration.
Blood Pressure Disorder in Pregnancy Linked to Heightened Risk of Death
Findings show increased mortality risks in offspring from birth to young adulthood
Study Shows School-Aged Children Can Successfully Swab Themselves for COVID-19 Tests, But Is This Something That Can Help Short-Staffed Medical Laboratories?
Encouraging patients—even children—to be more directly involved in their own medical care may reduce the burden on healthcare workers and might even help those clinical laboratories struggling to hire enough phlebotomists to collect specimens
Enhancing ovarian cancer diagnostics using AI technology
Artificial intelligence algorithms could provide added support to remote communities and other areas that lack available specialists
Study shows how brain's sensitivity to regret may be altered in mood disorders
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have learned that the way the brain processes the complex emotion of regret may be linked to an individual's ability to cope with stress, and altered in psychiatric disorders like depression
2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Awarded to Svante Pääbo
Pääbo received the award for his revolutionary work studying hominin genomes, including Neanderthal DNA
Why do some people attract mosquitoes more than others?
Mosquitoes are common vectors for many viruses that infect the human population, such as dengue, Zika, and yellow fever
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