Among the anti-epileptic drugs (ASM) used as monotherapy for post-stroke epilepsy (PSE), lamotrigine is associated with the lowest risk of mortality and valproic acid with the highest risk, new research suggests. Investigators looked at more than 2,500 patients, most of them in their late seventies, and used carbamazepine as a comparator. The results showed that […]
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Cancer affects millions of people around the world each year; More than 39% of men and women will develop cancer at some point in their lives. Chemotherapy is the most commonly used standard cancer treatment, and targeted delivery of these drugs to the tumor site increases their effectiveness. However, excess medication can still circulate in […]
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The study discussed in this summary was published as a preprint on medRxiv.org and has not yet been peer-reviewed. The central theses There is a disruption of the normal arousal / inhibitory balance in the brain of patients with epilepsy, and this study provided evidence that, in interictal rest, there is greater excitability in non-seizure-onset […]
A new study from Cornell University is using queuing theory to examine how often pairs of shoppers can overlap in a supermarket – an approach that could be used to predict the transmission of COVID-19 and guide strategies to reduce the spread. Jamol Pender, Associate Professor of Operations Research and Information Technology, specializes in queuing […]
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Digital marketing is picking up speed like no other. Whether education, insurance or hospitality – they all need digital marketing to boost their sector. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used by companies to simplify processes and improve their business. Social media marketing has become a must for any company, large or small, to be […]
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Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered how the sponginess and stickiness of stem cell nuclei controls how they “differentiate” into specialized cells. They found that the core starts out like a solid, but becomes more fluid over time. Less force is transmitted to the inner parts, as a result of which the cells undergo […]
According to a recent study by Socialinsider, companies with large followers on Instagram have more than doubled their use of the Stories function of the social network in 2021. The report is based on an analysis of 962,402 stories from 6,014 business accounts released between January 2020 and October 2021. Companies with more than 100,000 […]