Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

The fifth anniversary of the first known death from COVID-19 passed seemingly unnoticed in China Saturday, with no official remembrances in a country where the pandemic is a taboo subject.

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the causes of impairments in expressing grammatical tense in people with aphasia. They discovered that individuals with speech disorders struggle with both forming the concept of time and selecting the correct verb tense. However, which of these processes proves more challenging depends on the speaker’s language. The findings have been published in the journal Aphasiology.

A 28-year-old Cambodian man died from bird flu on Friday after eating sick chickens, the health ministry said.

Across the United States, no hospital is the same. Equipment, staffing, technical capabilities, and patient populations can all differ. So, while the profiles developed for people with common conditions may seem universal, the reality is that there are nuances that require individual attention, both in the make-up of the patients being seen and the situations of the hospitals providing their care.

Research led by Brock University has found a possible cure for lung diseases typically found in older adults, such as pulmonary fibrosis. The findings are published in the journal Aging Cell.

Patients with celiac disease face an increased risk of developing any chronic liver disease. This risk increase can persist for at least 25 years after celiac diagnosis. The findings, published in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe, underscore clinical vigilance for signs of liver disease in patients with celiac disease to prevent major adverse liver outcomes.

Patients are piling up in Minnesota emergency rooms once again, but it’s not just from COVID-19.

Stanford University School of Medicine–led researchers have found that intensive blood pressure (BP) control produces cardiovascular benefits and increases the risk of adverse events in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and protection against tuberculosis (TB) in macaque monkeys, suggests new University of Pittsburgh research published in Nature Microbiology.

A new study by UC San Francisco has found that menopause revs up the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS).