by Joel Streed, Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: Picas Joe from PexelsYour tonsils are oval-shaped pads of tissue in the back of your throat, one on each side. They work as part of your body’s immune system to filter bacteria and viruses. Tonsils also make white blood cells and antibodies to help fight infections. What...
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Preventing untimely deaths from non-communicable diseases
by University of Washington School of Medicine Figure 1. Achievable reductions in cause-specific mortality from scale-up of priority NCD interventions across low-income and middle-income countries The density plots show the distribution of the rate of change in cause-specific mortality across all 123 low-income and middle-income countries. We compare historical (2015–19) average annual rates of change to...
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Preventing and Rescuing Hearing Loss
A team of Harvard Medical School scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, led by Albert Edge and Yushi Hayashi, has identified the mechanism that can lead to deafness in the rare syndrome Norrie disease. The researchers found that the Norrie disease protein (NDP), lacking in patients with the disease, is essential for the maintenance and survival of hair...