Month: August 2024

New Lyme Disease Test Can Give Results in 20 Minutes

An improved test for Lyme disease could provide accurate results within 20 minutes, researchers report. The test – which resembles an AI-guided form of the at-home COVID-19 test – would be a vast improvement over the current two-part lab test that takes up to two weeks for… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on August 28, 2024

Study: Donating a Kidney Safer Than Long Thought

People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donation and found that by 2022, fewer than 1 of every 10,000 donors died… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on August 28, 2024

In-person contact linked with lower levels of loneliness in older adults

In-person contact helps lead to lower levels of loneliness in older people, but other ways of staying in touch, such as phoning, emailing or texting, are not as effective in lowering loneliness, a team of researchers found. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute […]

Published on August 28, 2024