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MADRID (Reuters) -People traveling from China to Spain will be required to test negative for COVID-19 or prove they have been fully vaccinated against the disease, Spain’s top health official said on Friday. Earlier this month, China began dismantling the world’s strictest COVID regime of lockdowns and extensive testing in an abrupt change of policy. […]

dr Niklas Klümper, resident at the Clinic for Urology and working group leader at the Institute for Experimental Oncology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), was awarded the CE Alken Prize in recognition of his outstanding scientific uro-oncological work. The 30-year-old is investigating which patients with metastatic bladder cancer benefit from a new oncological form […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Pandemic restrictions that hampered the circulation of viruses other than COVID-19 could be behind the unseasonably early upsurge in respiratory infections in Europe this winter that the festive break could prolong, scientists say. Apart from COVID-19, regulations to curb movement and social interaction limited the transmission of viruses that typically cause most […]

A new research paper was published in Oncotarget’s Volume 13 on December 17, 2022, entitled, “Serum microRNAs as new criteria for referral to early palliative care services in treatment-naïve advanced cancer patients.” A major obstacle to the implementation of early palliative care (EPC) is the lack of objective criteria for referral to EPC. Circulating microRNAs […]

Savitha Bonthala, DO, MPH, a Houston, Texas–based physiatrist, had been offered an exciting position as medical director of a brain injury rehabilitation program. Prior to the offer, “I was in private practice and burned by a bad contract I signed right out of fellowship with a billing company because didn’t know how to read contracts […]

A recent study published in The British Medical Journal tested whether artificial intelligence (AI) could pass the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR). Radiologists in the United Kingdom (UK) must pass the FRCR examination before completing their training. Assuming that AI can pass the same test, it could replace radiologists. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will require a negative COVID-19 test upon arrival for travelers from mainland China due to the rapid spread of the virus in the country, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday. Travelers from China who test positive will be required to quarantine for seven days, Kishida told reporters, adding that the new […]

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a common lifestyle disease that is prevalent worldwide. It can often lead to complications, such as diseases of the heart, and increased risk of death, but preventive measures, such as a healthy diet, can reduce these risks. Now, a study in Japan has shown that xanthan gum-based fluid thickener can […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Only a few weeks ago COVID-19 positive Chinese teacher Yang Zengdong and her husband would probably have ended up in a makeshift quarantine center with patchy heating, sparse bedding and overwhelmed toilets, but today they are isolating at home. Living in a post “zero-COVID” China, despite the anxiety about being infected and […]

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than the microbes in their fellow Danes’ guts. The research is a step towards understanding why some people gain more weight than others, even when they […]