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Body-brain neuroinflammation loop may cause chronic ME/CFS, long COVID symptoms
ME/CSF and long COVID are biologically based and involve ‘much disturbed physiology.’
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Neuroscientist alleges irregularities in Alzheimer’s research
“This hypothesis has been the central dominant thinking of the field.”
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Immune response may explain brain damage after COVID-19
Antibodies appear involved in an attack on the cells lining the brain’s blood vessels.
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One thing is certain, says survey: Doctors hate taxes
“I believe taxes will increase for physicians until they have no more money!”
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Pig heart transplants and the ethical challenges that lie ahead
Keeping a deceased recipient in a brain-dead state is part of xenotransplantation research, but experts debate the question: For how long, and...
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Does your patient have long COVID? Some clues on what to look for
Long COVID is known by many different names: long-haul COVID, postacute COVID-19, or even chronic COVID.
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Nurses’ cohort study: Endometriosis elevates stroke risk
Cohort study links endometriosis to an increased lifetime stroke risk.
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Biden tests positive for COVID-19: White House
President Biden plans to isolate at the White House and “will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time.”
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Job market for physicians, advanced practitioners rebounds after COVID-19 slump: Report
“The pendulum has gone all the way back. People are more interested in going out and seeing their physicians.”
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Charcoal could be the cure for the common high-fat diet
Plus: Brains sleep through noradrenaline waves in one study and get insulted by investigators in another.
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Parkinson’s disease: Is copper culpable?
Study findings shed new light on the development of the neurodegenerative disease and the role of biometals in the disease process.