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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of East Anglia have solved an 80-year-old medical mystery of the cause of kidney damage in children, which can be fatal in babies. Those affected by the condition cannot metabolize vitamin D properly, causing a build-up of calcium in the blood and leading to kidney damage and

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Was the shift to virtual visits during the pandemic with primary care physicians associated with increased emergency department visits? A new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) found no evidence that patients with a primary care physician in Ontario visited the emergency department as a substitution for in-person physician

Jan. 19, 2023 -- An emerging trend in virtual reality – incorporating smell – could be exciting news not just for gaming but for health care as well.A growing number of hospitals across the country are using virtual reality to help patients manage pain, overcome phobias, and calm anxiety. Providers and patients report mostly good results

Identification of a unique heterozygous mutation in the IRF4 gene in seven CID patients. Credit: Science Immunology (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.ade7953 An international consortium co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center immunogeneticist Rubén Martínez-Barricarte, Ph.D., has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections including a life-threatening fungal pneumonia. The discovery, reported

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff January 21, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up

Jan. 18, 2023 – Only about 4% of men who signed up to be sperm donors in the United States or Denmark completed the process and had their sperm frozen for use in medically assisted reproduction, new research reveals. Some men apply online, have their sperm tested, but do not go any further in the process.

Manhattan plot for the cross-ancestry meta-analysis. The results of the cross-ancestry meta-analysis (77,690 AF cases and 1,167,040 controls) are shown. The log10 BFs on the y axis are shown against the genomic positions (hg19) on the x axis. Association signals that reached a genome-wide significance level (log10 BF > 6) are shown in blue if previously reported

Not intended for U.S. and UK Media Berlin, January 18, 2023 – Bayer today announced the acquisition of the global strategic imaging AI platform and solutions provider Blackford Analysis Ltd. The acquisition is part of Bayer's strategy to drive innovation in radiology, including the development and adoption of AI within the clinical workflow, with the