March 04, 2024 – People have been looking for ways to get rid of multi-resistant germs for many years. US researchers at Harvard University have developed a new antibiotic that is effective against a variety of resistant bacteria. The results …

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December 29, 2023 – Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative human disease that occurs in its most common form in people over the age of 65 and is characterized by increasing dementia. It is responsible for approximately 60 percent of the …

Alzheimer’s: Are we at the beginning of a new era of treatment? Read more »

21 December 2023 – Finasteride is a medication used for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (on the market as Proscar (5mg) since 1992 for this indication) and male pattern hair loss (on the market as Propecia (1mg) since 1997 for this indication). Finasteride is a type II and type III 5α-reductase inhibitor, 5α-reductase …

Post-Finasteride Syndrome Patients: Is There Differential Gene Expression? Read more »

24 October 2023 – Is ChatGPT Smarter Than A Primary Care Physician (PCP)? This is the question asked in a recent study out of Scotland, published in JMIR Medical Education. ChatGPT, which stands for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer”, is a …

Is ChatGPT Already Smarter Than A Primary Care Physician (PCP)? Read more »

July 20, 2023 – The SARS-CoV-2 virus has changed the lives of millions and millions of individuals worldwide. It has also changed the behaviour of the society as a whole with respect to more aggressive and less tolerant behaviour of …

Separating falsehoods from facts: Long Covid and Vaccines Read more »

01 May, 2023 – SARS-CoV-2, like other respiratory viruses, typically initiates infection in the throat and sinuses. But it often spreads from the respiratory tract to other parts of the body, such as the gut, liver, heart, kidneys, brain, blood …

Study identifies human genes enabling SARS-CoV-2 infection Read more »

February 07, 2023 – CRISPR is a genetic engineering technique by which the genomes of living organisms may be modified. It is based on a simplified version of the bacterial CRISPR–Cas9 antiviral defense system. By delivering the Cas9 nuclease complexed with …

CRISPR: Does it help diseased plants and humans alike? Read more »

January 08, 2023 – In precision and/or targeted medicine of today, physicians typically start out with the determination of the patients phenotypic expression of a disease (i.e., establish a clinical finding) and then go on into finding out the patients genetic …

Genomic variants traced forward to genetic disorders: A new approach? Read more »

December 11, 2022 – We’re all familiar with the five senses that allow us to experience our surroundings, namely sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. However, equally important but much less well known is the so called Sixth Sense. Sixth sense …

The sixth sense: Are there genes associated with it? Read more »

29. October 2022 – A first clinical guideline on Schaaf-Yang syndrome for professionals and families has been created. Improving knowledge of Schaaf-Yang syndrome (SYS), an ultra-rare disease caused by mutations in the MAGEL2 gene, is the aim of this first clinical …

The extremely rare Schaaf-Yang Syndrome and the MAGEL2 gene Read more »