Health

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition associated with alternating episodes of depression and mania or hypomania. Depression is a period of over two weeks of…
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The provision of primary healthcare is based on the delivery of basic care and the dissemination of prevention practices to the population. In Brazil, a…
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Malaria is caused by mosquito-borne parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which affects over 216 million people worldwide. It is still a huge problem in developing…
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Helminths are worm parasites that are transmitted by soil, water, or food. Helminth infections cause human, animal, and plant diseases that produce a significant economic…
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Unlike opportunistic fungal pathogens, Histoplasma capsulatum can infect and cause disease in otherwise healthy individuals. Infections result from inhalation of infectious fungal conidia (spores) following…
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I recently heard it said that mankind’s extermination of the smallpox virus, lauded as it is, was a feat of under-appreciated endeavor. The evolutionary necessity…
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With the aged care sector under the spotlight and currently undergoing a Royal Commission in Australia, it is a timely reminder of the value that aged…
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In 1928, Frederick Griffith was in search of a vaccine to protect against the pneumococcus, one of the major human bacterial pathogens. Instead, this English…
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Understanding the frequency components of brain signals and their functional relevance has been a central focus in neuroscience research. Therefore, since the inception of resting-state…
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There has been considerable progress in the treatment of breast cancer. Advances in diagnosis, surgery, radiotherapy, and targeted chemotherapy have transformed the lives of many…
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For more than two decades, scientists have argued over a pattern of human mortality. The rate at which humans physically decay with age, as measured…
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