Read more about the article No Cure For Mystery Fever After Four Months Of Pain
Isabella, 4, poses in undated photo. She has had had a high fever for more than four months and the doctors in the province still cannot diagnose her, in Corrientes, Argentina. (@veronicagabrielariver/Newsflash)

No Cure For Mystery Fever After Four Months Of Pain

A four-year-old girl is baffling medics with a four-month-long fever and a string of other agonising conditions. Little Isabella Rivero - from the city of Corrientes, in the Argentinian province…

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Read more about the article Four-Year-Old Dies After Medics Said Sting Was Pneumonia
Miguel Grijota da Silva, 4, poses in undated photo. He died after being stung by a scorpion while sleeping in Birigui, Brazil, on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Newsflash)

Four-Year-Old Dies After Medics Said Sting Was Pneumonia

A four-year-old boy who had been stung by a scorpion died after ER medics treated him for pneumonia instead of lethal venom, a hospital inquiry has revealed. Victim Miguel Grijota…

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Read more about the article Trench Fever That Affected Tolkien And C.S. Lewis Could Be Prevented Say Scientists
Bartonella bacteria (green) have invaded red blood cells (red). (Biozentrum, Universitat Basel/Newsflash)

Trench Fever That Affected Tolkien And C.S. Lewis Could Be Prevented Say Scientists

The discovery of a special antibody could help prevent dangerous bacterial infections such as trench fever, whose sufferers included celebrated authors like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.…

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Read more about the article Better Therapy Hopes As Detection Dogs Sniff It Out
Recent study by a research team from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo) shows that dogs previously trained with samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals can recognize samples from post-COVID-19 patients. (Sebastian Meller/Newsflash)

Better Therapy Hopes As Detection Dogs Sniff It Out

COVID-19 detection dogs can also detect Long Covid in people, according to new research by vets in Germany. Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover found that canines…

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Read more about the article Italian Man Ends Up In ICU After Overdosing On Vitamin D To Avoid Catching COVID 19
Sant'Antonio hospital in Padua in Italy where a man ended up in intensive care because of an overdose with vitamin D. (Google Maps/Newsflash)

Italian Man Ends Up In ICU After Overdosing On Vitamin D To Avoid Catching COVID 19

An Italian man has ended up in intensive care after he overdosed on vitamin D because he thought it would help him avoid catching COVID-19. The unnamed man in his…

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Read more about the article Female Chimp Adopts Sisters Infant After She Suffers From Mysterious Illness
Female chimpanzee Kitoko and the two newborns at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland. (Zoo Basel/Newsflash)

Female Chimp Adopts Sisters Infant After She Suffers From Mysterious Illness

These heartwarming images show how a female chimpanzee has adopted her ill sister's newborn infant at a zoo in Switzerland. Kitoko the chimpanzee is currently looking after her own baby…

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Read more about the article German Doctors Cure Long Covid For The First Time Using Experimental Heart Medicine
Axel N. (59) in the University Hospital Erlangen, who got the active ingredient BC 007 as part of a single 75-minute infusion.

German Doctors Cure Long Covid For The First Time Using Experimental Heart Medicine

German doctors have cured four patients affected by so-called "long" COVID-19 for the first time using a new heart drug, which relieved them of symptoms such as "brain fog" and…

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Read more about the article Study Says Neanderthal DNA Linked To Improved COVID-19 Outcomes
Gene variants we inherited from Neandertals may both increase and decrease our risk to become seriously ill when infected with Sars-CoV-2

Study Says Neanderthal DNA Linked To Improved COVID-19 Outcomes

A new study has shown that a Neanderthal genetic variant found in half of the people outside the African continent can decrease the risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms. It follows…

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