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The diploic veins run inside the bones of the skull and leave channels that can be studied in osteological collections, in other words, in historical populations and fossil individuals. A study, led by Stanislava Eisová and coordinated by Emiliano Bruner, Read more
A study conducted as part of the EXHAUSTION project has found an adverse connection between extreme temperatures and heart health, drawing attention to yet another consequence of climate change. The research has linked cold weather to excess deaths (the difference Read more
A traditional stethoscope and physical examination is 95% accurate in detecting heart ailments in children and remains a valuable diagnostic tool in an era of increasing reliance on costlier echocardiography, a study suggests. Echocardiography—which uses ultrasound technology to image the Read more
Malnutrition is a key challenge not only in African countries. As an international study published in Frontiers in Nutrition led by Veronika Somoza now shows, egg powder is a food with great potential to improve the nutritional situation of children Read more
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)—the transfer of lower intestinal fluids and microbes from one individual to another—is sometimes used to treat inflammatory gut diseases, including ulcerative colitis and bacterial infections. Although a form of it was first recorded in fourth-century China, Read more
Harvard Medical School scientists and colleagues at Stanford University have developed an artificial intelligence diagnostic tool that can detect diseases on chest X-rays directly from natural-language descriptions contained in accompanying clinical reports. The step is deemed a major advance in Read more
A new mechanism that slows down and may even prevent the natural aging of immune cells—one of the nine hallmarks of aging—has been identified by an international team led by UCL scientists. Published in Nature Cell Biology, researchers say the Read more