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  • Nov 21, 2024 | nature.com | Cassandra Willyard

    Venomous snakes bite millions of people every year, most of them in India. Ravikar Ralph, a physician at the Christian Medical College Vellore hospital in India, is one of the people who treats them. The hospital, one of just nine poison-control centres in India, sees about 200 people who are gravely ill after a snakebite each year. They arrive with a variety of symptoms. Bites from venomous snakes called vipers can cause bleeding and tissue damage that is severe enough to require amputation.

  • Nov 3, 2024 | spektrum.de | Cassandra Willyard

    Hintergrund Lesedauer ca. 11 Minuten DruckenTeilen Autoimmunkrankheiten: Wie das Immunsystem wieder normal werden könnteDie Suche nach ursächlichen Therapien für Autoimmunkrankheiten wie Diabetes, Lupus und multiple Sklerose gestaltete sich bisher schwierig. Doch nun stehen einige Behandlungsansätze in den Startlöchern, die die Immuntoleranz bei den Betroffenen wiederherstellen könnten. Exklusive Übersetzung ausBei Diabetes Typ I zerstört das Immunsystem körpereigene insulinproduzierende Zellen.

  • Oct 23, 2024 | nature.com | Cassandra Willyard

    Melanie Hoenig was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when one of them, Cameron Nutt, raised his hand. Why, he asked, did the diagnostic algorithm include an adjustment for Black patients?

  • Oct 15, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Cassandra Willyard

    This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Melanie Hoenig was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when one of them, Cameron Nutt, raised his hand. Why, he asked, did the diagnostic algorithm include an adjustment for Black patients?

  • Sep 5, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Cassandra Willyard |Meghan Rosen |Laura Sanders

    Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? As the years passed, Hodge had more frequent and more severe bouts of back pain. Any small movement could be a trigger — grabbing a towel from the linen closet, picking up a toy off the floor, sneezing. In 2021, Hodge experienced a particularly bad flare-up.

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