Betial Asmerom, a fourth-year medical student at the University of California-San Diego, didn't have the slightest interest in becoming a doctor when she was growing up. As an adolescent, she…
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You should probably replace some of your fabric face masks
If your masks are beginning to feel as old as this pandemic, it's probably time to get yourself some new ones. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises using…
American Medical Association, the nation’s largest group of doctors, deems racism a ‘public health threat’
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten hard-hit minority communities, the nation's largest association of doctors has passed a policy that recognizes racism as a public health threat. The new…
Memories of past events retain remarkable fidelity even as we age
Scientists studying the complex relationship between aging and memory have found that in a controlled experiment, people can remember the details about past events with a surprising 94% accuracy, even…
Team uses copper to image Alzheimer’s aggregates in the brain
A proof-of-concept study conducted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease offers new evidence that copper isotopes can be used to detect the amyloid-beta protein deposits that form in the…
Commonly used antibiotic shows promise for combating Zika infections
In 2015, hundreds of children were born with brain deformities resulting from a global outbreak of Zika virus infections. Recently, National Institutes of Health researchers used a variety of advanced…
Cleveland Clinic first to use latest ablation technology to destroy large liver tumors
Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to use a recently FDA-approved ablation technology that can destroy large liver tumors. The minimally invasive procedure uses a single needle…