Tuberculosis cases rise, but public health agencies say they lack the resources to keep up
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease, killing about 1.5 million people annually.
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Until COVID-19, tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease, killing about 1.5 million people annually.
Feb 12, 2024
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Special receptor cells under the skin enable us to feel pain and touch. But Schwann cells also play a key role in detecting such stimuli, researchers at the Max Delbrück Center report in Nature Communications. This discovery ...
Feb 6, 2024
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A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more sensitive to moderate pain than males as older ...
Jan 31, 2024
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There are generally two types of pain: physical pain, which is associated with actual or potential tissue damage, and social pain, which is associated with negative social experiences. In daily life, people sometimes cannot ...
Jan 25, 2024
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In mammals, the perception of visual stimuli is supported by the coordinated activity of thousands of neurons in different brain regions. The images perceived by the eyes are represented in the brain, passing various steps ...
Scientists have shown that people are able to tell apart morning from evening depictions in paintings using simple and subtle color clues in the image.
Jan 17, 2024
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified how a subset of neurons enables the eyes to perceive motion, according to a study published in Nature Communications, a discovery that reveals previously hidden complexities ...
Jan 10, 2024
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Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology and their collaborators have uncovered the coding principle underlying self-centered (egocentric) representation in spatial perception.
Dec 14, 2023
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The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a subsection of the brain's frontal lobe, is known to play a part in value-based decision-making, the process of mentally weighing the outcome of different decisions and then selecting one. ...
Optimal windows exist for action and perception during the 0.8 seconds of a heartbeat, according to research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology. The sequence of contraction and relaxation is linked to changes ...
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