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Patients treated by female doctors have a lower mortality rate when compared to patients treated by their male counterparts, a new study suggests. Researchers found this was especially true for female patients and observed a similar pattern for hospital readmission rates. The team published their findings in the scientific journal Annals of Internal Medicine. “What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful impact on patients' health outcomes,” Dr Yusuke Tsugawa, an associate professor-in-residence at the Univ...
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More people in Belgium are arriving at clinics with serious lesions in their noses amid rising cocaine consumption, doctors say. The ear nose and throat (ENT) clinic of Liège's University Hospital Centre (CHU) often sees patients with nasal obstruction. Cocaine can cause blood vessels to narrow in the nose which can damage tissue. This can lead to perforations in the mucose membrane and the cartilage. “There is damage to both the mucus membrane and cartilage so to the nasal septum, which is affected, as well as the internal structures,” said Dr Sophie Tombu, a doctor at the ENT clinic at Liège...
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Researchers have identified new drug candidates that may be able to prevent HIV-infected cells from escaping detection by the immune system. A team from the Univerisity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US made the discovery. Current therapy, called antiretroviral therapy, prevents HIV from multiplying which reduces the virus’ amount in the body to an undetectable level but it isn’t a cure. “We have excellent antiretroviral drugs that suppress HIV, but unfortunately, none of them clear the virus. If someone with HIV stops taking their medication, the infection will rebound,” Thomas Smith...
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Researchers have successfully grown organoids from stem cells taken in late and active pregnancies for the first time. "Mini-organs," also called organoids, are tiny structures that can be used to test new medical treatments or study how the real organs they resemble work when healthy or diseased. "Those cells are very important because in that little organoid is contained all the functions of the epithelium, so of the inner layer of that organ, so we can replicate all those functions in a Petri dish which is important for both development and also understanding the disease for example of the ...
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A COVID-19 antiviral drug has been underused in Europe with about 3.1 million courses of the medicine set to expire in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France by the end of this month. With clinical trial data showing a nearly 90 per cent reduction in the risk of severe illness, Paxlovid first came to market as a critical tool against COVID-19 at the beginning of 2022. But the UK-based global health data and analytics company Airfinity said in a report earlier this year that a few of the batches initially delivered by the drug’s manufacturer Pfizer already started expiring in July 2023, acco...
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Scientists in Costa Rica are injecting venom into horses to create antibodies to treat humans bitten by snakes. Veterinarians at the Clodomiro Picado Institute breed poisonous snakes and extract their lethal venom. "The head is taken and the rest of the body brought to a glass container with cold insulation, we expose the fangs. Once the fangs are exposed, we massage the glands where the venom is released, after this process, the mouth is disinfected and the animal is returned to its enclosure," said Jasmin Arias, a natural resources manager at Clodomiro Picado Serpentarium. The extracted veno...
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