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Can’t draw a mental picture? Aphantasia causes blind spots in the mind’s eye
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Can’t draw a mental picture? Aphantasia causes blind spots in the mind’s eye

by Max Witynski,  University of Chicago Some individuals with aphantasia—a recently-characterized condition that causes a lack of visual memory—have reported that they don’t understand what it means to ‘count sheep’ before going to bed, because they cannot visualize sheep without seeing them. Credit: Tanner Yould on Unsplash If you were asked to draw a picture of...

Studies find having COVID-19 may protect against reinfection
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Studies find having COVID-19 may protect against reinfection

by Marilynn Marchione  This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. According to two new studies released on Tuesday, Dec....

Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘vant’ brainchildren keep bearing fruit with Urovant’s FDA nod for incontinence med vibegron
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Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘vant’ brainchildren keep bearing fruit with Urovant’s FDA nod for incontinence med vibegron

Max Gelman Associate Editor Christ­mas has come ear­ly for Urovant Sci­ences as the for­mer Vivek Ra­maswamy out­fit scored an FDA ap­proval for its lead pro­gram. James Robin­son The biotech’s over­ac­tive blad­der can­di­date vibegron will be the newest drug to hit the mar­ket, the agency said Wednes­day, giv­ing Urovant its first ap­proved prod­uct. Vibegron, a be­ta-3...

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Modeling study suggests mitigation efforts can prevent most college campus COVID cases

BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Boston — As colleges and universities consider strategies for the spring semester to keep COVID-19 cases down, a study conducted by experts in epidemic modeling may help shed light on what mitigation strategies may be most effective, both in terms of infections prevented and cost. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital,...

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Doctors should change the way that they ask patients about self-harm and suicide

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Doctors can better help patients with mental health concerns by adopting a different questioning style around self-harm and suicide, experts have said.  New research warns patients may find it difficult to disclose thoughts of self-harm because of the way in which GPs ask about them. Academics who examined consultations found that GPs...

Difference in blood pressure between arms linked to greater death risk
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Difference in blood pressure between arms linked to greater death risk

by  University of Exeter Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Robust evidence from a large international study confirms that a difference in blood pressure readings between arms is linked to greater risk of heart attack, stroke and death. Led by the University of Exeter, the global INTERPRESS-IPD Collaboration conducted a meta-analysis of all the available research, then merged...

Defeating pathological autoimmunity with kinase inhibition
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Defeating pathological autoimmunity with kinase inhibition

by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress Credit: Wikipedia Autoinflammatory syndromes are often the result of genetic mutations that ultimately compromise neutrophils, macrophages and other cells of the innate immune system. Rather than showering sufferers with broad immunosuppressives, a more satisfactory response can frequently be obtained using select anti-inflammatory drugs like anti-TNF or anti-IL-1β. A similar...

Chemotherapy technique that uses magnetic nanoparticles to heat cancerous cells to more than 104°F while delivering drugs is a THIRD more effective
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Chemotherapy technique that uses magnetic nanoparticles to heat cancerous cells to more than 104°F while delivering drugs is a THIRD more effective

By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE  Chemotherapy could be up to 34 per cent more effective thanks to a new technique which combines the treatment with magnetic particles that fry cancerous cells.  Researchers at University College London found the combination of heat and chemo drugs makes the process more effective.  Tiny magnetic nanoparticles attach themselves to the cancerous cells...

Graph-Evolving Meta-Learning for Low-Resource Medical Dialogue Generation
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Graph-Evolving Meta-Learning for Low-Resource Medical Dialogue Generation

Medical dialogue systems may converse with patients and make a diagnosis automatically. Conventional dialogue generation models cannot be directly applied to such scenarios because of the lack of medical knowledge. A recent study addresses the lack of suitable models in this domain and introduces an end-to-end dialogue system for the medical dialogue generation. Image credit: pxfuel.com,...