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Our Narrative About Leprosy Just Changed
newser· 28 minutes ago"It really goes against the narrative that it was a human disease specifically," says Sarah Inskip of the University of Leicester, co-author ...
Long Covid study could give Leicester sufferer 'life back'
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoClare Elliott, 33, contracted Covid-19 in February 2020 and has suffered symptoms ever since. She...
New Research Shows Early Patching Improves Treatment Outcomes for Children with Amblyopia
Newswise· 4 days agoAmblyopia (or lazy eye), the most common childhood visual disease, is typically treated by wearing glasses to correct the patient’s vision for a lengthy period of time before patching the eye ...
Exoplanet WASP-43 b weather is hot and wild
EarthSky· 17 hours agoAn international team of astronomers did just that for the exoplanet WASP-43 b. The researchers said on April 30, 2024, that the tidally locked “hot Jupiter” is cloudy on its nightside, but clear on its dayside.
WHO overturns dogma on airborne disease spread. The CDC might not act on it
WUSF 89.7· 1 day agoThe World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands...
Exercise programs benefit a wide range of long-term health conditions, finds health data analysis
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoConducted by researchers at the University of Glasgow in collaboration with the University of Leicester, University of Birmingham, University ...
NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away
NASA· 6 days agoAn international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b. Precise brightness measurements over ...
Leprosy ‘may have spread between red squirrels and humans in medieval England’
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt is believed to be spread chiefly by coughing or sneezing. Dr Sarah Inskip, a bioarchaeologist at...
Squirrels may have given medieval Britons leprosy
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days ago"The finding of leprosy in modern squirrels was surprising and then it's incredible that we found it in the medieval period," said study co-author Dr...
Jupiter's Historic Roaming Linked to Earth's Moon Formation, New Study Suggests
Gadgets 360· 6 days agoNew research indicates a potential connection between Jupiter's historical movements and the...