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The brown dog tick is increasingly migrating from southern climes to Germany. Once dragged into the house by a dog, the tick nests and lays up to 4,000 eggs. Then, the tick can also become a problem for humans. The German University of Hohenheim is asking for everyone's help to keep track.
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Virtual Reality (VR) therapy is a time-saving and personal method of psychiatric treatment with proven effectiveness. The Oxford-based company Oxford VR is currently working on the development of VR therapies for social phobias and psychosis.
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Cells are equipped with effective defense mechanisms to combat intruders. Battle and building plans are written in the genes that must be activated when an enemy attack takes place. Scientists developed a new method to study the activity of thousands of genes in single cells.
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If you have thick heel and feet calluses, you should consider yourself lucky instead of fighting them vehemently. Calluses protect the foot like a shoe sole and maintain the sensitivity of the feet. With them, nature is ahead of our shoes' purpose.
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Poor handling of boredom can have a negative effect on mental health. A recent study, therefore, looked into the question of what happens in the brain when you are bored and how best to deal with it.
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The majority of the German population supports the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. More than 50% of citizens would trust AI-supported diagnoses in the same way or even more than purely medical diagnoses.
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Who can deal better with the daily flood of information in the workplace: younger or older people? The younger ones, it is often believed, because they are fitter in dealing with modern media. But the older generations' abilities for dealing with information in the digital age are sharper than assumed, a Fresenius University professor proposes.
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Joint prostheses carriers should take any infection and inflammation seriously and seek medical advice if in doubt, recommends the German Society for Endoprosthetics
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Previously, it took days to obtain the results of bacterial culture for the detection of respiratory infection. In the future, the result will probably be available after just six hours: Metagenomic sequencing is making this possible.
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Australia is currently experiencing one of the heaviest influenza epidemics in years. Up to 200 people have already fallen victim to the flu. So please remind those traveling there, of the vaccination protection.
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The Eye Clinic at Bonn University Hospital in cooperation with the Sankara Eye Foundation in India has started a project to introduce a unique smartphone-based, telemedical diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening.
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A team of researchers found that the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), a hormone secreted by the heart muscle, could open up new options in the treatment of high blood pressure.
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New figures from the Cancer Research UK Foundation indicate that there are now twice as many overweight people as smokers in the UK. While the number of active smokers is constantly decreasing, the number of overweight people is increasing. A polemic UK campaign on the issue has met considerable backlash.
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Certain conditions faced by children in detention centers for migrants can lead to short and long-term health problems. The analysis refers to the conditions of Latin immigrants on the Mexico-US border but is applicable to children detained in Libya or off the Italian coast.
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More than ever, absolute attention and consideration are required in road transport. The diversity in types of road users has increased in recent years. Currently, a new group of participants has been added in Germany with the E-Roller.
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It is widely believed that the use of social networks can have a negative impact on mental health. However, recent studies suggest that their use in adults could reduce the risk of depression or anxiety disorders.
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Sometimes errors occur during embryonic development, leading the wrong arrangement of organs. Heterotaxy patients also often suffer from severe heart defects. Researchers at the University of Ulm suggest through new findings that mitochondria play a special role in this process.
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During the joint press conference of the German-based NGOs “accept e.V.” and “Deutschen AIDS-Hilfe” on 5 July 2019, experts call for evidence-based strategy instead of party politics.
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Prof. Dr. Friedrich Grimminger and Prof. Dr. Ralph Schermuly from the Department of Medicine at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) report on the identification of a molecular mechanism that controls the disease from the vessel wall.
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Gold nanoparticles could contribute to increased efficiency in the development of vaccines and drugs that target B cells, a new study concludes.
