Is it EVER okay to date again when your partner has dementia?

As husband, 54, says he began a new relationship before his wife died of the dementia and billionaire Wolfgang Porsche, 79, divorced his wife after her diagnosis, EVE SIMMONS asks whether it’s EVER okay to date again when your partner has dementia? Eric Reeves, 54, saw wife die of early-onset dementia but girlfriend helped him

Global novel disease surveillance: Majority of countries lack preparednes

In a recent study posted to the Preprints with The Lancet / SSRN´s First Look* preprint server, researchers explored national surveillance for new diseases in different countries. Study: National Surveillance for Novel Diseases: A Systematic Analysis of 195 Countries. Image Credit: WorldDay/Shutterstock.com *Important notice: Preprints with The Lancet publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and,

China Out of UN’s Wildlife Survey for Pandemic Controls: Source

HANOI (Reuters) – China is not participating in a United Nations project to survey Asian wet markets and other facilities at high risk of spreading infectious diseases from wild animals to humans, despite long-running talks with Beijing, a UN official told Reuters. China’s hesitancy to join the UN project involving other Asian nations may compound

Study reports a decrease in Mediterranean diet adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic

In a recent study published in the Nutrients Journal, researchers evaluated changes in individual determinants of adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) over time. Study: Adherence to Mediterranean Diet: A Population-Based Longitudinal Cohort Study. Image Credit: MarianWeyo/Shutterstock.com Background The conventional MedDiet comprises a minimal intake of processed foods, increased consumption of plant-based foods (vegetables, fruits, nuts, and

Study endeavors to strengthen genomic diagnosis of rare pediatric diseases in the United Kingdom and Ireland

In a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers performed a large-scale sequencing study using data gathered over a decade from a previous study, the Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study. This was undertaken to describe analytic strategies developed in the DDD study to identify and classify thousands of new molecular diagnoses

LGBTQ+ adults report higher rates of pain, US survey data shows

A new study analyzing data from the 2013—2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has found the number of people who report being in pain is significantly higher among LGBTQ+ adults than straight adults. Western University sociology professor Anna Zajacova said pain has not been studied from a population perspective in the past because it was

Researchers identify hallmarks to improving pancreatic cancer therapy

Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have made a significant contribution to the field of pancreatic cancer research. Their new study presents several crucial themes in the biology of pancreatic cancer that can serve as hallmarks for pancreatic cancer therapy. These

Prediction-driven decision rules, randomized control study design and survival analysis in health care practice

Predictions are becoming more and more a part of our lives, and they are becoming increasingly useful in medical science as the science evolves. Increased understanding of disease and its treatments allows us to use predictions based on predictive biomarker signatures to optimize treatment outcomes for increasingly specific subject groups. Developing prediction-driven decision rules in

Long daytime naps might raise your odds for A-fib

Daytime naps longer than a half-hour appear to nearly double a person’s risk of developing an irregular heartbeat, a new study reports. People who nap 30 minutes or more a day have a 90% higher risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (a-fib) than those who take shorter naps, according to research presented

New approach to fighting fetal brain dysfunction

A team from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has uncovered new information about how microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain, colonize the brain during the embryonic stage of development. Although erythromyeloid progenitors (EMPs) were previously thought to divide into either microglia or macrophages, the group found that macrophages that