March 10, 2025 – Does a gene variant shield against the COPA syndrome, a devastating inherited disease? The COPA syndrome is a recently described autosomal dominant inborn error of immunity characterized by high titer autoantibodies and interstitial lung disease, with many …
Does the gene variant HAQ-STING shield against the COPA syndrome? Read more »
December 19, 2024 – Artifical intelligence (AI) is the actual hype and everywhere and Chatbots seem to replace human thinking, speaking, behaving, and somehow eliminating the need of human interacting between ourselves. Giving AI an impression of being the ultimate …
Dementia in leading AI chatbots: Is it almost human? Read more »
December 09, 2024 – Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2): Many children worldwide are suffering from the consequences of an acute Covid-19 infection in the form of the do-called Long Covid. This article/post is the form of a corresponding article edited by thasso which originally …
November 12, 2024 – The duration of human life (longevity) is influenced by genetics, the environment, and lifestyle. Environmental improvements beginning in the 1900s extended the average life span dramatically with significant improvements in the availability of food and clean …
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 …
Multi-resistant bacteria: New antibiotic destroys hospital germs Read more »
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 »